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Software:
DeckaDance V1.30.9
Deckadance is a DJ mixing application that works either as a standalone program OR as a VSTi plugin inside your favourite host.
You can control Deckadance using your mouse, keyboard & most existing midi controllers & timecoded vinyl and CD systems.
Image-Line, the company behind Deckadance, has more than 10 years of experience in writing and managing audio software such as FL Studio. In developing Deckadance, we didn't just bring in some consulting DJs to tell our software engineers what they wanted. Deckadance was written by DJs for DJs, so we are confident that it will take your DJing to the next level.
Of course, if you suck as a DJ, you will still suck using Deckadance, but you will suck better, faster, harder and more creatively than ever before!
Minimum System Requirements:
OS:
PC: Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista
Memory:
512MB ram
Hard Disk Space:
200MB free space.
GFX:
A decent graphic card will make the Deckadance experience a lot more enjoyable.
Monitor:
Minimum horizontal resolution of 1024 pixels.
Sound card:
PC: DirectSound or ASIO compatible soundcard
Record parts of your track and play them back as loops or one-shot samples, using one of the 8 inbuilt sampler slots.
LOAD WAV - Loads wave files from disk.
SAVE WAV - Saves the current sample to disk as a WAV file.
Volume (Vertical Fader) - Controls the output level of the sampler slot.
Play button - Left-click for momentary playback, right-click for continuous playback.
REC. LOOP - Records the current output from Deckadance.
BEAT SYNC - Select to play samples on-cue and in time with the current track (if a beat is detected).
A / B - Assigns the sampler to deck A or B.
(Headphones) - Sends the output to the headphone mix bus.
Effects (Horizontal Fader) - Left: Low Pass filter. Right: High Pass filter.
Relooper Editors
The re-looper works by slicing and re-arranging the sample currently in the playback buffer for the associated deck. The region to be re-looped is defined by the beat markers bounding the playback marker (center of the Beat Window). Re-looper patterns can be used on any track and on the bar that is currently playing. Note:Reloopers are randomized on Deckadance startup, if you want other "random" patterns, just hit the "randomize" button.
Mute and Re-trigger - Right-click on the pattern blocks to cycle through Mute and 1, 1/2, 1/4th note re-trigger options. Useful for "stutter" effects.
To activate pattern 1 to 3 - Left-click the "Re-looper 1, 2 or 3" buttons in the Effects panel for momentary effects. Right-click to engage permanently. Left or right-click to disengage the re-loop.
PATTERNS 1, 2 & 3 - Click to edit the pattern. There are three patterns per deck.
CLEAR PATTERN - Clears the pattern and creates a straight playback pattern.
RANDOMIZE - Creates a random relooper pattern.
BEAT ALIGN - Aligns beats.
MIXED MODE - The pattern will play back as a 50:50 mix of the relooper and original track output.
SWAP - Swaps the patterns between the Decks.
Master Relooper Effects
The Master Effects don"t work when Deckadance is used multiple output mode, ie: Deck A in one stereo out and Deck B in another. The Master Effects will only work on a Master Output.
WHA-WHA FILTER - Wah wha effect. House/Daft punk style wah wah doubled (parallel) bandpass filter effect with lo-fi decimation.
PANORAMIC LFO - Left/Right LFO modulated autopanner with some 3d effect phasing effects.
RING-MODULATOR - Amplitude driven ring modulator (Argu stays it"s "cool!").
TRACK-CODER - Lo-Fi distortion effect combining low order vocoder (16 bands), pitch tracking with sawtooth synthesis and foldback distortion mixed with original signal.
Deckadance Featurelist
64-bit DSP, high quality processing.
2 decks capable of loading MP3 (Id3v1&v2), WAV and OGG
aufTAKT tempo analysis. for perfect syncronisation
12 outputs (6 x Stereo): master mix, monitor, deck a, deck b, ...
Seamless Looping / Cueing.
Unique Loop and Leap feature.
Unique Reverse and Leap feature.
Flexible monitoring options : pre-fader listener level, phone split
Switch/vumeters for all elements.
Flexible crossfader modes (linear or curved w/curve adjustment).
Seamless "beat jump" functions.
-36dB to +12dB low/mid/high eq range control. Band kill of -48dB.
Auto-Sync buttons.
Auto-Slave to main tempo/host tempo button.
Auto Beat-Sync playback start.
Precise pitch control.
Crossfader embedded VU meter, auto-transition & deck punch-in.
3 Band EQ with 3 Band killer buttons.
Deck accurate pitchbend slow/fast control.
Deck downbeat shift control.
Tempo tracking switches (for tracks with variable tempo).
Internal torque simulation with realistic mouse scratch/hold.
Effects :
- lowpass
- highpass
- bandpass
- bandreject filter
- 8 Tap 3D Phaser
- Variable 3D Echo/Flanger effect
- XY control pads
Playlist with virtually unlimited number of entries.
Automatic Playlist mix :
- common track crossfade
- DJ style mode! (it will beatmatch playlist transitions).
- SHUFFLE mode
Automatic Playlist recursive directory search.
Full drag&drop from external OLE applications
Embedded right song browser with favourites search function
Bass crossfader.
Middle interface: Direct help, Peakscope and Spectroscope.
Lot of samples and midi grooves provided.
+500 royalty free loops downloadable
8-slot sampler that uses the 8 built-in samples
8-slot sampler samples from the decks and has with loop & sync
Relooper that works with the predefined/included patterns
Fully editable "relooper" [reslice / rearrange loop in realtime].
wave & OGG loading and pitchbend support
Works as standalone or VSTi plugin inside hosts like FL, Live, ...
Hosts VSTi softsynths & FX
8-slot VSTi host with midi database
6 inputs (3 x Stereo deck a input, deck b input, mic.
Low-latency vinyl tracking system with autolearn. Tested with:
- Final Scratch
- Serato Scratch Live
- MixVibes
- MS PINKY
- Torq
- ... (all others supported via "learning" mode)
Vst host midi-in thru (to control hosted vst"s from controller).
On-the-fly disk recorder.
Midi Support :
Generic MIDI control support.
MIDI Learn with easy to configure function.
Native remote DJ Controller support for (more later) :
- Behringer BCD2000 & 3000
- Hercules DJ Console.
- Hercules DJ Console Mk2.
- Eks XP10 Controller (native HID/USB for full resolution)
- Vestax VCI-100
- Kontrol DJ
Full monitor routing swithes for decks, samplers and vsti host.
VST And Standalone Win32 Versions.
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