As you load tracks into the decks, their information gets stored in the History tab for the current session. You can switch between day/night view in the library screen (so that it is easier to read in dark environments), and you can showing tracks in the Cloud and access a link to the iTunes store (this pops up a small window adhering to the same day/night choice as the main library).Īnother great addition to the screen is the History tab. By pressing and holding a track, you can now quickly preview it via your headphone cue signal without loading it into the deck: valuable to those with several different mixes of the same song (or perhaps those with a number of tracks badly named and tagged…) djay 2’s track library is vastly improved, making it easier to use and more powerful. Once a track is in the queue, a small blue bar is displayed alongside it. You can quickly add tracks to the queue by swiping along the track to the right (a quick swipe to the left will remove the track from the queue).
This acts like a temporary playlist once you close the app completely the queue is cleared out. The addition of a “Queue” page is the biggest bonus, meaning you can start to trawl through the library during the gig and dig out tracks (add them to the queue) which you might consider playing later on. The library functionality has the most number of useful changes for me. Loading a track is a much smoother process now, as the library screen can be expanded/contracted in situ as you wish (rather than diving back into the settings page). Let’s dig deeper to take a proper look at what’s changed… This is the first noticeable user request which has been incorporated. If you tilt your iPad into portrait mode you’ll notice that you get a single-deck view (similar to what was already present in the iPhone/iPod Touch version of the original app).
There are a couple of new buttons (which we’ll get to in a moment) and the help functionality has been moved into the top bar – so no excuse for not understanding something now! Only a few minor tweaks have been made here, mainly the relocation of a few buttons (sync, pitch bend and keylock) around the pitch control to tie the interface more closely to common hardware configuration of the same controls. When you first load the app you’ll notice that the set-up is the familiar twin-deck approach. It didn’t want to scare the horses by taking away everything that made the original djay such an intuitive and easy to use app however at the same time, it needed to refresh the look and feel to bring it up to date. First Impressions / Setting up Official videoĪlgoriddim had a careful balancing act to perform here.