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DJ Player 4 arrives (it's a big one)


Looking at what's new in this app it's less of an update and more like a whole new app. The new stuff is huge! Take a look:

NEW LOOK
  • New design.
  • Easier navigation between the various screens.
  • Day or Night background. Set manually, or automatically according to your location's sunrise/sunset.
  • iPad only: CPU meter, sunrise and sunset display.
DECKS SCREEN
  • Looping: 8 cue/loop points (on iPad, 6 on iPhone/iPod touch).
  • Modify cues/loops on the fly, while playback goes.
  • Max. 16 beats long automatic slip mode for reverse.
  • Beat and block-aligned seeking.
  • Pitch range is automatically adjusted, if the current pitch value doesn't fit.
  • Vinyl Vision and waveform display is now super crisp.
FX SCREEN
  • Easier navigation.
  • Auto or bounce loop, reloop.
  • From 64 beats down to 1/256 beat.
  • iPad only: 128 beats, triolic beats (1/3, 3/4).
  • Temp pitch control.
  • Switchable beat-snap.
  • Slip mode (if on, the track goes silently "untouched" under the loop).
  • Double/half bpm adjust.
  • 1/8 for echo is back.
  • Separate sharp switches for echo and reverb (sharp on = effect turns off immediately, no "tail").
MIXER SCREEN
  • Peak hold for VU meter with 3 settings (fades out, runs out, off).
  • Touch handling improvements, a touch is exclusive to one fader (no accidental movement of another fader nearby).
  • On track load, EQ can: reset all bands, reset mid/high and cut bass, or do nothing.
  • On track load, gain can: adjust automatically, reset, or do nothing.
  • You can choose between CUE or HOT CUE for the mixer/effects screen.
  • Improved punch fader mechanism to avoid accidental jumps.
TRACKS SCREEN
  • Tracks screen cleaned up, convenient output mode selector and other things under the "More" button.
  • New playlist sort option: "Natural" to show a playlist's tracks in the custom order you set up in iTunes.
  • New track sort option: "Comment", to show tracks in the order of the first word in the comments metadata. Useful to sort by key for example.
  • Automatic marker shows if a track was played in the last 4 hours. Option in settings: it displays minutes too (30/60/90/120/240).
  • Manual marker switching (reset all possible too).
BETTER DATABASE
  • Better BPM detection.
  • Not just analyze all: analyze specific tracks or lists only.
  • The database now keeps your bpm and cue point data even if you remove a track from your device. If you upload it again, bpm and cue points are back.
  • The database is available at "File Sharing" in iTunes for backup or further processing. It's a standard SQLite db now.
  • Smaller amount of metadata stored (around 10 kb per minute maximum, so less than 15 MB for 24 hours of music).
IMPROVED MULTIPLE DEVICE HANDLING
  • More than two devices nearby? No problem: device pairing for BPM sync.
  • Automatic wireless cue points and bpm import from nearby devices, no need to sync the metadata database to multiple devices.
MORE SETTINGS
  • Most settings moved to the Settings app (still on-the-fly changeable).
BUGFIXES
  • Stereo PFL button was "inverted" - fixed.
  • EQ remained active in Classic Club and Double Deck output modes - fixed.
  • Track analyzing was overwriting bpm (and sometimes cue points) - fixed.
DJ PLAYER - iMect Ltd.

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

$37.99 is a bit steep of a price to just go out and buy. Especially on just a list of features. I would need more info before I consider a purchase.

For example, on the screen shot there looks to be 4 different wave form views. What are those for? Perhaps there will be demo video on Youtube soon enough. Their web site has yet to be updated.

Anonymous said...

@Anon:
Check out http://the-modern-dj.blogspot.com/

Anonymous said...

You are absolutely right that the website needs an update, we will do it soon. DJ Player is the innovation platform for Red Bull BPM apps, but this version is very different, Red Bull BPM development will follow soon.

The 4 waveforms are: the entire track's structure, the actual position detailed, the current cue/loop's start and end points.

Tom TM said...

I posted these links earlier;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgBnOpRS1Z8

review on this blog;
http://mojosdojo.com/
(some great youtube vids in there of commonly samples breaks too- for your sampling pleasure!)

Anonymous said...

@Tom, that's a pretty old version of the app being demo'd on the video clip.

While this blog;
http://the-modern-dj.blogspot.com/2011/09/dj-player-40-netout-13-full-review.html

...doesn't have any video, it is a very comprehensive look at the new features.