So, all set up and the sound coming out of all the right places, it’s time to take a look at what the software can do.įirst you’ll want to get some music ready. You get a choice of internal or external mixing with a controller you’ll typically use internal mixing, using the mixing function in your software rather than a hardware mixer. The software has a quit elegant “patch bay” graphical use interface to help you get your head around this typically tricky task of getting a new digital DJ set-up working while not straightforward the first time you try and get your head around it, the way it is handled here is pretty good. This tells the software what sound card settings to use for your headphones monitoring and master output. What you can do is duplicate them and change your own duplicate version.įinally in your setting up, you need to enable the audio routing. The MixVibes Cross 2.0 audio routing page: Audio routing isn’t always easy to get your head around, but their patchbay graphics make it easier to understand.īear in mind that you can’t just jump in and hack existing mappings probably quite wisely, they’re locked. you can remap the keyboard shortcuts, too. The mappings section in the configuration are also recognises your OS and quite nicely, gives you the option of choosing a laptop or full keyboard mapping again, the correct one was already chosen. If your controller isn’t mapped you can do so yourself the mapping system here is quite straightforward if not exactly easy its’ somewhere between Traktor (very fiddly) and Algoriddim’s djay (surprisingly easy). However, note that not all controllers by any means are mapped. To set the software up with your hardware, you first need to check it’s supported (about 60 controllers are): the page on the MixVibes website referenced from the program is out of date, but a bit of digging reveals a Cross DJ 2.0 compatibility page on the same site, which represents a pretty wide range of mapped controllers I had a Vestax VCI-400 sat here so I plugged it in, and the available mappings all suddenly appeared, with the Vestax already highlighted. The VU meters are now tucked “inside” the channel meters (making them harder to view when the fader knob cover graphic is over the “red” part of the VU meters). Areas of the software can be switched on and off via the “view” menu so at first it doesn’t look like much else has changed, but dig a little deeper and you discover eight sample slots per deck that can be switched on and that appear under the existing two decks. Another big difference is that there are now four channel faders, not two, up the middle of the mixer. Since we last looked at the software, it’s had a bit of a makeover, but is essentially recognisably the same program. Note that many controllers (more than 60) are already mapped in the software. The MixVibes Cross DJ 2.0 controller mapping page. However you buy it, you just install it along with drivers (PC only), and you’re ready to go. It is available in English, French, Spanish, Dutch and Italian, selectable from within the program. Finally, you can buy it bundled with the company’s own U-Mix Control Pro hardware. You can buy the software (the version we review here is actually 2.0.1) as a download from the MixVibes website, or you can get it as part of a more traditional pack, with an audio interface and control vinyl and CDs, so you can use it as a digital vinyl system with existing decks or CD players. But should we care? Yes, as it turns out… First impressions and setting up Since we last looked at Cross DJ (see our Cross DJ 1.5 review), the software has acquired better effects, a four-channel mixer and sample decks – oh and a shiny new black paint job. PC and Mac users do have other choices out there, and one such choice is Cross DJ from French company MixVibes, which has recently reached its landmark v2. It’s not all about Traktor, Serato and Virtual DJ when it comes to DJ software. Capable, professional, and versatile… MixVibes Cross 2.0 DJ software may just be better than one of the more popular DJ programs for you, depending on your particular needs.
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