Comments on: Deckadance DJ Software Now in Beta for Mac

By: Anto

Anto — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:14:23 +0000

Go image-line!

By: mallyone

mallyone — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:28:45 +0000

While their memories will live on forever, the direct links are, alas, dead, even after login…

Although you can grab either version from their announcement article so no biggie (again though, login is necessary).

By: Wallace Winfrey

Wallace Winfrey — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:58:39 +0000

The links aren’t dead, you just have to be logged into the forum before they’ll work. There’s a note on the page now indicating as much.

By: mallyone

mallyone — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:50:31 +0000

I’ve been waiting forever for the mac version, I nearly lost consciousness when I saw the headline.

Although the links to the beta’s appear to have died. Now I actually have to dig around myself… oh the humanity! :)

By: D. Cravens

D. Cravens — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:07:25 +0000

Yo Wally, Como sends a shout.

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By: Deckadance DJ Software Now in Beta for Mac-Download Music

Deckadance DJ Software Now in Beta for Mac-Download Music — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:03:10 +0000

[...] unknown wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptDeckadance DJ software has been on our radar for some time on the DJ software front: lots of MIDI control (with one caveat; see below), agnostic support for multiple vinyl timecode systems, and most interestingly the ability to run the … [...]

By: flip

flip — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:03:05 +0000

@Peter: Well, on the subject of control… It was odd at first, because when I scratch on vinyl, my movements use a greater range than the platter size on the Vestax VCI. It took a few minutes to adjust to that. The bonus side is that you can cue up REALLY fast since you can see the waveforms on your screen. If you have a fast computer, you’ll also have virtually no latency. I used a G5 Quad in that video clip, with 8 GB of SDRAM.

The funny thing is that the primary reason I got it was so I could cut up sounds with the cross fader, not scratch. I’m glad it worked out both ways. Don’t get me wrong though: There are definitely scratch tricks you can’t do on it. One of my favorites being to cut the power on the turntable and flare a sine wave (or similar) or some friction related tricks that you could use both a turntable or hand percussion instruments. I’m sure these capabilities are not far away.

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:26:00 +0000

Very, very cool, Flip. Some people had complained about having enough control on the VCI-100 for scratching … but you’ve done quite nicely for yourself there!

And yeah, I’m down with using whatever works. Here, here.

By: flip

flip — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 20:40:59 +0000

That looks pretty cool. What was up with the split wave form? Was that some sort of visual beat matching? I’ve been enjoying using this for the past few months:

http://www.johnnyrandom.com/vci/vci-100-cat-scratch.mov

The difference is that this one is a MIDI controller and doesn’t use vinyl. Either way, that doesn’t keep you from sounding like you are. I grew up on vinyl, but have always wanted to scratch my own recordings (in this case my cat in a bad mood)… It’s pretty easy to adjust to as well. This vid was made after a few hours of messing around on the device.