Software for DJing oldies parties

Unfortunately you have picked the most difficult genres to beatmatch. Key matching is not a big deal, keys can be detected for older tracks also.

Those older tracks are, especially til the mid-80s or so, predominantly hand drummed. SOME of the top 3/4 DJ software programs can handle this, it’s what’s called flexible beatgridding. Traktor for example can’t, Serato and Mixvibes Cross on the other hand are pretty good at it.

That said, it will get the grids wrong way more than for more modern, computerized music.

You can download a free time-limited version of Cross I believe. That would give you the opportunity to see if it does what you require. I’d use Mixed in Key for key detection, it’s by far the best software out there. Not cheap, but well worth it to get 96 out of 100 right (the next best software gets it right 76 out of 100).

If you decide to buy Cross, it’s relatively cheap compared to competitors at 49,00 euro/dollar and, imho, more mature than DJ Pro.

Hope that helps some

I dj for rock pop urban country contemporary gospel and stuff like that. Most of that stuff is key mixing from one song to another in the same key. slow fade Transitions get you a copy of the Camelot wheel and it will tell you what keys work good together like Dm and Am work real good together. Also you need to use songs together that fit like a soft song going out and hard rap does not fit together. And what ever software you get I would suggest mixing in key software also. virtual Dj if I remember correctly has the key to each song on the line with the name of the song. BPM do matter but not as much as key mixing I brought in songs that sounded good together 30 or 40 bpm difference they say do not go over 10 bpm difference but it depends on how the song starts out . If it start out balls to the walls yeah don’t go over 5 to 10 but if it starts mild and the sound wave is very flat looking then you can get away with it cause songs like that usely build to a climax.