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With simple being the operative word I use mixmeister to extend/shorten a track or layer an acapella over the top. For complex remixes Ableton is the only solution.

I don’t believe “live remixing” within a dj program sounds good 99% of the time. I prefer to take my time getting it right then re-recording it to play in dj software.

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Unfortunately the midi clock is not currently working in VDJ. It should be fixed in either VDJ7.1 which should be released very shortly or VDJ8 sometime after that.

You may be able to rewire a DAW like ableton from VDJ using the advanced sound config then send the midi clock from the DAW, but I have never tried it as I don’t have any midi capable instruments.

It’s based on my experience of being dragged along to commercial clubs when i was an apprentice chef as that is where all the girls are. It was always train wreck city but the crowd, the staff and the manager don’t care as long as they hear flo rida and christina every 2 hours. Sorry but underground crowds are generally less slutty “guys are sluts too” and more involved in the scene than top 40. There was also pretty much a fight every couple of hours either in or out of the clubs, never have I seen a fight erupt in an underground club as everyone knows each other and are usually welcoming to sincere new comers..

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Oh okay I misunderstood what you were wanting… You would need to be using a PC and download the watchdog plugin.

then you can map the following to the button that jumps to the next cue point, this is the best way of doing it as watchdog is always running in the background once you have turned it on for the first time so it doesn’t matter if you use a controller, the keyboard or the skin to trigger the cue.

var ‘WD_LUC’ 1 ? hot_cue 2 : var ‘WD_LUC’ 2 ? hot_cue 3 : var ‘WD_LUC’ 3 ? hot_cue 4 : etc..

or you could set a variable on your cue point buttons, but you would need to do this for the controller, keyboard and skin individually eg

button 1
hot_cue 1 & set “LUC” 1

button 2
hot_cue 2 & set “LUC” 2

button 1
hot_cue 3 & set “LUC” 3

then on your button that jumps to the next cue do it the same as above but change the variable name
var ‘LUC’ 1 ? hot_cue 2 : var ‘LUC’ 2 ? hot_cue 3 : var ‘LUC’ 3 ? hot_cue 4 : etc..

LOL…

what you need to do is create a cycle variable that shifts your keys to give you a few pages… then query the state of your cycle on your buttons.

cycle ‘cue_page’ 4

that will give you 4 pages to work with, they are

var ‘cue_page’ 0
var ‘cue_page’ 1
var ‘cue_page’ 2
var ‘cue_page’ 3

then you need to query what variable is currently active.

var ‘cue_page’ 1 ? action if true :
var ‘cue_page’ 2 ? action if true :
var ‘cue_page’ 3 ? action if true :
action if page 0 “all false”

eg.
var ‘cue_page’ 1 ? hot_cue 11 :
var ‘cue_page’ 2 ? hot_cue 21 :
var ‘cue_page’ 3 ? hot_cue 31 :
hot_cue 1

then delete out the spaces between the lines

button 1
var ‘cue_page’ 1 ? hot_cue 11 : var ‘cue_page’ 2 ? hot_cue 21 : var ‘cue_page’ 3 ? hot_cue 31 : hot_cue 1

button 2
var ‘cue_page’ 1 ? hot_cue 12 : var ‘cue_page’ 2 ? hot_cue 22 : var ‘cue_page’ 3 ? hot_cue 32 : hot_cue 2

button 3
var ‘cue_page’ 1 ? hot_cue 13 : var ‘cue_page’ 2 ? hot_cue 23 : var ‘cue_page’ 3 ? hot_cue 33 : hot_cue 3

etc…

If you wanted to have that reflected on the skin you would need to learn a little about skinning and create some pannels to show the required information dependant on the state of the cycle. The good thing about VDJ Pro is once you declare a variable you can query it from anywhere in the program.