Deckadance is a fully featured DJ mixing application in which creative DJ performance is the key design philosophy. Deckadance can be controlled using most (if not all) existing MIDI controllers and time-coded vinyl and CD systems. It works either as a standalone program or as a VSTi plugin inside a VST host. Deckadance can also host any VST-compliant softsynth or effect.

Features

• Mixing: Beat analysis, beat matching, time stretching, pitch shifting, bass x-fades, and user-assignable x-fade curves are all possible. Deckadance supports MP3, WAV and OGG formats.
• MIDI control: Deckadance comes with pre-configured setups for working with the Vestax VCI-100, Behringer (BCD2000 & 3000), Allen & Heath Xone:3D, M-Audio XSession, Hercules DJ Console (MP3 & MK II), EKS XP10 , Kontrol-DJ. All other controllers will work in Generic mode or via custom links which can be made with the MIDI learn feature and saved for future recall.
• Vinyl control: The following Time Code Vinyls and CDs have been certified to work with Deckadance - Stanton FinalScratch, Serato Scratch Live, MixVibes, and msPinky. All other vinyls and timecode CDs can be 'learnt' using the inbuilt Deckadance Time Code calibration system.
• Sampler: Eight integrated sampler banks can load or record 1, 2, 4 or 8 beat loops from one of the decks (freely assignable). Samples can be triggered on-the-fly or beat-synced with the associated deck.
• ReLooping: The Deckadance Relooper features the ability to re-slice any beat-analyzed track and re-arrange the beat. The Relooper includes a set of master effects for added customization of the sound and can be used to create stutter effects, or to extend infinite parts of a track to create unique breaks, intros or outros. The Relooper also supports unique loop and leap features which allow the track to continue from the point it would have reached if no loop had occurred.
• VST host: Deckadance can host eight VST instruments or effects. These can be assigned to either deck, and are located in the signal path between the decks and the master outputs. Instruments may be driven by MIDI sequences to create unique live sequenced tracks. Included with Deckadance are the Image-Line JuicePack effects including: Love Philter, Parametric EQ & EQ2, Wave Candy, Multiband Compressor, Delay, Delay Bank, WaveShaper, EQUO (graphic morphing EQ), Flangus, Vocoder, Spectroman and Stereo Enhancer plugins.
• VSTi plugin: Deckadance can be loaded as a VST inside any VST-compliant host, such as FL Studio, Ableton Live, Sonar or Cubase.
• Playlist: Working with the integrated file browser, the Playlist allows sets to be arranged and tested before the gig, including cue points, loops and beat-markers. Complete with 'DJ-Style Automix' function (using Bass crossfades) even the laziest of DJs, or those who need to visit the bathroom, are catered for.
• DMX: Digital Multiplex lighting control standard is a communications protocol, similar to MIDI. However, DMX may be used to control lighting, dimmers and other DMX-enabled equipment such as fog-machines. The Deckadance DMX Sequencer is an optional module to be released soon.
• Skins: Deckadance ships with a Dark and Light skin. The skin bitmaps are freely editable so users can create or customize their own. New skins will also be downloadable from the Deckadance website shortly.
• Key DSP and Technical: ASIO-compliant, 64-bit DSP, pristine quality processing. Two decks loading MP3, WAV and OGG, aufTAKT Tempo analysis. Deckadance supports 12 freely assignable outputs and 6 freely assignable inputs. Crossfader curve shape is user adjustable, Pre-fader listener level adjustment, phone split (L/R), independent Monitor outputs assignable, Auto slave and Beat Sync, 3DP pitch control, 3 Band EQ with Killer buttons, Tempo Tracking, Torque simulation for realistic scratching and cueing effects, 7 inbuilt effect types… and much more.

New in v1.31

• [imp] Improved sound engine (2x faster).
• [imp] Improved browser and playlist drawing speed & visual effects.
• [imp] Improved keyboard behavior of shift+key combos (specifically at release time to avoid problems).
• [new] New mouse scrollbar support for slider controls (...also the fx & scratch waveform).
• [new] Added new skin: neon.
• [new] Waveform color support via skin.
• [fix] Fixed some problem in the minihost with the MIDI output devices and improved the labels.
• [imp] Source code cleaning.
• [new] Native support for Hercules dj console RMX (Win & OS X).
• [new] Native support for EKS XP10 and XP5 (Win & OS X).
• [chg] Removed temporally the DVS improvement in the special case of timecode cd's.
• [new] Added jog control to the EXT CTRL panel for House and LE editions.
• [fix] Fixed some bugs in the Vestax and White skins.
• [imp] Improved scratch behavior for the Kontrol Dj KDJ500 controller.
• [fix] Fixed some problems with the sampler when Beat Sync is deactivated.
• [new] Native support for M-Audio Xponent.
• [new] Native support for Hercules Console MK2 (Win & OS X).
• [new] Native support for Hercules Control MP3 (Win & OS X).
• [fix] Fixed a bug in the Vestax VCI-100 mapping that caused problems with the jogs.
• [imp] Improved pitch fluctuation behavior in DVS.
• [new] Added direct links to get more information about the supported remote controllers.
• [fix] Fixed some problems with the sampler in the powerpc architecture (OS X).
• [new] Added new skins: Blue, New White, Synq, Vestax and Dj-Tech.
• [chg] Removed the old black, white and vestax skins.
• [new] Support for 14 bit MIDI pitch messages.
• [new] New warning system displayed in the hint window.
• [new] Deck load locked feature. Avoids problems at load times locking the playing decks.
• [new] New loop move feature. In loop mode the jump buttons now moves the full loop forward or backward (1 beat/bar).
• [imp] Improved samples volume stored among sessions.
• [fix] Fixed deck sync behavior problem when load tracks.
• [fix] Fixed a bug in the minihost that causes in some rare situations a problem at startup not showing the main window.
• [fix] Fixed a bug with the filesize warning message for wav files with a size minor than 300MB.
• [imp] Increased the size for the filesize warning message (30MB for mp3 files and 300MB for wav files).
• [new] New loop size visual mark preview.
• [new] New keyboard shortcut list.
• [new] New MIDI function list.
• [new] New support for multiple MIDI input devices.
• [new] New rewind support (via keyboard or MIDI).
• [fix] Fixed a bug with big filesizes in automix mode.
• [imp] Improved contrast of search waveform.
• [imp] Improved samples directory handling.
• [new] Native support for Stanton scs-1d deck.
• [new] Native support for Dj-Tech iMix and iMix reload.
• [new] New render engine for OSX.
• [new] New render engine for Win32.
• [imp] Reduced significantly %CPU usage in OSX and Win32.
• [imp] Improved minihost window resize.
• [imp] General improvements and bug fixes.
• [new] Native support for Vestax VCM-100.
• [new] New mapping for Vestax VCI-100.
• [new] Automatic store of cue points.
• [new] Native support for Synq PCM-1.
• [fix] Fixed a bug in the browser, now folders can be stored in the favorites list (Win32).
• [fix] Fixed a small visual bug in the hitech skin (Beat Align button).