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it’s hard to say really, I was reading the djdecks forum and adion atomix’s new lead developer was unsure how to make vst’s work on mac, that was posted 6 months ago, so maybe he and the team have been figuring it out, but I think atomix will finally bridge the gap between pc and mac in terms of their support, but the best plugins come from the community or vst’s. sbdj now has a mac though and is bringing video plugins up to date, I assume next he will turn his focus towards audio plugins, then hopefully a combination of video and audio at the same time.

unfortunately because you are using a mac the equalizer I use is out of the question as you can’t use vst’s on mac, for this reason I recommend bootcamping windows or waiting till vdj8 is released as the eq will not only be fixed but adjustable to suit the way you like it to sound, at the moment it is absolutely shocking and I honestly don’t know how anyone signed off on it being acceptable and releasing the program with it… /rant

p.s. the eq is “minimal systems instruments – ultimate 3 band” It is absolutely supreme sounding.

You always have full jog resolution in vdj, but there is a small lag when scratching as atomix set their software to work on incredibly slow computers as a default. Im not sure how you do it on mac but on pc you need to locate and edit the system registry, it’s not as hard as it sounds as you just need to type “regedit” in the start menu’s search bar. that brings up the registry and you navigate to hk_current_user –> virtual dj –> then open “default scratch latency” it will be set at 2400, atomix recommend you halve it but mine is set at 860 if I remember correctly, after that scratching is tight.

The way I found out how to edit the registry manually is google, so start there.

one of the endless knobs is shifted to allow you to change the pitch i believe. for me it’s not a good way to control your software as you need to look at the skin to know around about where the slider position is.

It doesn’t have any audio inputs but it has 8 outputs for 4 decks of sound. so you could easily route one to plug into your mpc. I don’t use traktor so not sure how to do it, but in vdj I would say it would be best to create a booth out and route that to the mpc if you still want to use the master out.

mapping is awesome, you can make controllers do crazy things, or just change some minor things to suit you better… I prefer stupidly crazy mappings. Traktor’s good at it but VDJ Pro is better.

fatboy slim is the worst famous dj in the history of famous dj’s… seen him 3 times each time was his worst.

now that’s said, you can change the jog behaviour easily by mapping a button with something like

wheel_mode “jog, loop_out, loop_size” +1

the closest you will find in an all in one unit is the cdmp7000 from gemini. it’s a 3 channel analog mixer, cd/usb player and a controller with soundcard… never touched one so can’t comment on the quality, and I highly doubt it is paired with serato, pioneer would never allow traktor to support it so virtual dj is probably the only software you could use.

I haven’t heard any reports of use with VDJ yet, there was an issue with pioneer cdj 850, 900 & 2000’s initially in regard to the jog position screen not using the same timing method as the software, (one was frames the other was milliseconds) it required a firmware update to fix… not sure if that could be an issue. and if the screen is anything like the scs4d it will be blank in midi mode.

i’m not sure pro basic does have a physical box, the full version does… also not sure why you wan’t the box, it’ll only get tossed anyway and you have to wait for delivery…

Also make sure your aware that pro basic does not and will never allow the use of external controllers, and there is no word as to whether it will get upgraded to version 8 when it drops… If you have any inclination towards controllers your better off buying a mixtrack pro and upgrading to the full pro, you will save yourself some money in the end, but you would get a discount of around $50 if upgrading to Pro full from pro basic…

DJ Roubo, post: 19756, member: 1747 wrote: They mostly all do the same things with varying degrees of success.

yep they all send midi or HID messages to software… Itch is locked… Traktor doesn’t support controllers that compete with their own unless they get paid… Virtual DJ support almost everything and has the tools to make the program anything you want… VDJ FTW!