Looking for DJ mixing software....

I am looking for some good DJ mixing software. I want to be able to mix songs and make my own music as well. I want it to be more for techno music preferbly break beat, dub step, or trance. It would be nice for it to be free but I dought there are any decent ones that are.

Thanks in advance!

Well first things first...

Mac or PC?

Illustrial recommends..... FL Studio

Its what I do 99% of my stuff on

I am a qualified music technician, and i can advise with confidence that Reason and Cubase are by far the best programs for music on Windows. For mac, Logic is a good one, but VERY expencive, purely due to its huge size.

Cubase is fairly cheap, however it comes with very little VST's and you have to pay to add more. Reason is a bit more expencive, but you get the whole package.

Use them to create your music, and then use T-racks to master the tracks after.

By the way, Cubase does have the advantage of being able to use instruments and mics directly into the program, and if you have both, you can use a handy lil thing called ReWire, quite unreliable but it does the job when it works.

I hope this helps you, and if you're worried about the price, well, there is another way *wink wink, nudge nudge*

FL Studio, Logic Pro, Pro Tools, dJay for Mac, and Cubase are all good.

I highly recommend FL Studio or Pro Tools.

reply to post by iSwag


That's an excellent point... For anyone on a Mac there's an excellent, FREE, and fully featured application called "Mixxx" and I'd recommend giving it a spin.

www.mixxx.org...

ADD: I just realized if you check their downloads section its for Windows too.

Oh and also, just to check, do you have an external sound card or a internal sound card? If you're still using the sound card you got with your pc, you wont get anything good out of it and you will be doomed with redicules latency and terrible quality. M-Audio are a good brand to buy, grab an external sound card and a midi keyboard from them (prob cost round £150 for both of them) and you will be fine.

Here you go...

Free and open Source.

Audacity.

audacity.sourceforge.net...

For Windows, it's gotta be Cubase. My dad has been using that stuff since it was nothing but a dotted line running across the screen and letting out a beep every now and then on his Commodore 84. They've had a long time to perfect it, and I've seen the new stuff. It's very high quality software.

hey,

mixcraft is good (especially for beginners) and you can get a free trial...i made this drum n bass track with it www.youtube.com...

much love
stu

It's for a PC running Vista...my bad.

reply to post by chrismicha77


First advise, get windows 7

reply to post by Trolloks


Ah I see, thank you!

Originally posted by Trolloks
reply to post by chrismicha77

 

First advise, get windows 7

I know...cash straped though.

Anyone know about Virtual DJ Pro V7.0.3?

reply to post by chrismicha77


No one mentioned Sonar Producer 8.5? I'd go with that, Cubase or Protools if this is for real time recording or a studio setting, I've used all three in both stationary and mobile studio settings. If you are clubbing you might want to try Numark, Atomix, etc.

Cheers - Dave

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I've played around with Virtual DJ Pro for a little bit while setting up karaoke software for a club. It has a lot of plugins available for mixing, sampling, etc. The parts that I liked about it was how user friendly it was to use and the video display support.

reply to post by bobs_uruncle


Thanks mate. It's for clubs, I'm going to try out Atomix.

For making music, I personally use ableton; but the likes of cubase, fl studio, and logic will serve you well.

For mixing, I highly recommend traktor, or virtual DJ.

If you haven't tried out Traktor Pro you have no idea what you are missing.

In my younger years I DJed at a few clubs, I ran a 4 deck setup with 1 Timecode attached to my Dell XPS running Traktor, 2 Pioneer CDJ1000's and a Technics SL1200-MK2 attached to whichever mixer the club had.

Had tons and tons of fun with Traktor, its smooth and precise the sound quality is stellar, tons of options and tweaks to get everything just right from small to large venues.

We used it in the studio to record and mix all our advertisements for the radio stations.

Give it a try.

-Lightrule