| The DJ world is definitely experiencing a digital world | | | | With DJ mixer software you have the ability to control |
| shakeup with the advent of MP3 and digital media | | | | the computer mixing just as you would using 2 decks |
| formats which have spawned a new era of DJ mixing | | | | turntables and a mixer and start songs at the end of |
| software packages and software controller devices all | | | | the previous one so that they are audibly seamless |
| designed to make the interaction of the DJ with their | | | | creating a mix between the music tracks. Furthermore, |
| digital media a more natural and rewarding experience. | | | | with bpm dj software you have countless extra |
| It is now possible for a DJ to have many thousands of | | | | features and abilities to perform some really clever |
| music tracks stored on a hard disk drive, memory stick | | | | beat mixing, beat matching and loop sample effects |
| or iPod device all of which can be easily plugged into a | | | | either during the mix of the 2 tracks or even within the |
| laptop (PC or Mac) and the tracks manipulated by the | | | | song itself such as placing a sampled vocal loop into |
| DJ and Mixing Music Software (mp3 mixing software) | | | | the song and thus creating some really exciting and |
| to achieve results that far exceed the possibilities of | | | | new remixes of existing tracks. |
| analogue media such as vinyl records. | | | | With the latest DJ mixing software packages such as |
| The concept of being able to mix a digital media track | | | | Traktor and M-Audio plus even the free DJ software |
| is one that has been around for some years now but | | | | packages it is now extremely easy and |
| the ability to have total control and be able to perform | | | | straightforward to use standard audio formats such as |
| live DJ sets is one that has only recently been possible. | | | | MP3 or WAV tracks and load them into the software |
| The increased performance of the latest computer | | | | ready for mixing. You have the added advantage with |
| hardware PC and Mac and indeed the human | | | | digital media tracks that you can manipulate both the |
| interaction devices now allow conventional vinyl | | | | tempo and pitch in a way that avoids the analogue |
| turntables and normal DJ CD players plus DJ mixers to | | | | problems of speeding up a record and the vocal pitch |
| be used as controller units for a new breed of DJ | | | | of a singer increasing but with digital media you can |
| computer mixing software such as Traktor DJ, Virtual | | | | lock the pitch whilst increasing the tempo or speed of |
| DJ, and M-Audio's Torq Connectiv DJ performance | | | | the song thus making the mixing of 2 songs together a |
| production system. | | | | whole lot simpler. |