Digital DJ

Cloud in a DAW

by on May.12, 2013, under Advanced Features, Basic Features, Developer, Digital DJ

The Cloud Browser Plugin allows you to open a portal to SoundCloud.com and Freesound.org from within your DAW or production environment. From long mixes to speeches, samples to beats, hits and stabs, or loops; you can find whatever audio you need with a few quick searches.

You can download just as easily – simply drag-n-drop files from the cloud into your production environment, or the other way (uploading to you SoundCloud account has never been easier). This plugin is the best workflow improvement out there!

The full version is coming soon, but get an advanced copy now:
VST for mac
VST for Windows

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Add a Turntable to your DAW!

by on Apr.25, 2013, under Basic Features, Digital DJ

Add a turntable to your DAW with this simple plugin. Supports every type of timecoded vinyl on the market, let’s you scratch tracks, samples, and even live input.

The full version is coming soon, but get an advanced copy now:
VST for mac
VST for Windows

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The Sequencer Arrives

by on Feb.15, 2013, under Advanced Features, Basic Features, Digital DJ

We’re stepped up our game again to bring you this sequencer, fully integrated with the scenes in Livetronica Studio.

Scene transitions, easier than ever, will soon include bpm morphing in addition to the automatic crossfade.

this means that you can now move seemlessly between loops, samples and tracks, all synced perfectly and controllable in a million ways that you won’t see anywhere else.

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New Styling for the New Year!

by on Dec.25, 2012, under Basic Features, Digital DJ

our new stylin' turntables

What a year we’ve had! Thanks for the 200,000+ downloads and keep it coming! The beta team is roaring with new suggestions and massive things keep coming. And now this – we are styling for the new year.

Whats our quest? Delivering a new way to DJ – we’ve added a grid of sample players that are unparalleled – the only samplers you can play as a drumset and scratch like a turntable.

Still the only DJ product out there to offer immediate Soundcloud.com and Freesound.org browsing right in from the DAW environment! We offer unlimited content at the touch of a button (just drag and drop sounds from the Cloud onto your turntables).

That plus VST/AU hosting, the most customizable setup in the industry, support for timecoded vinyl, and metadata lookup has made us a rising star in the DJ world and a program that any Dj should be excited to see in action. Check out the free downloads now!

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Automating a Scratch

by on Oct.04, 2012, under Advanced Features, Digital DJ

Programming the automation for scratching is something that has eluded the DJ tech community for too long.  Imagine for a moment, and plugin that allows you to program scratches the way you make beats, by automating parameters – tweaking until you get the perfect scratch.  Imagine a library of scratch automations that can be triggered with the touch of a button; or bringing in a top notch DJ and recording their scratches as automation, then switching out the audio.

Imagine scratching the audio tracks of ableton, or any other DAW, in real time (and without the pesky limitation of not being able to go backwards – as with ableton’s “bridge”).  All of this and more is in progress here at Stagecraft.   Help us bring it to reality by downloading the beta program and sending us feedback!

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Vinyl Support Arrives

by on Jun.29, 2012, under Advanced Features, Basic Features, Digital DJ


Joining the ranks of elite professional DJ software, Livetronica Studio now supports timecoded Vinyl – specifically Traktor, Torq, and Ms Pinky formats (no Serato support yet). We still have one of the only DJ software out there that gives you quantizable freq shifts (up to 4 octaves), bpm shifts (up to +/- 8 times play speed), inset loops, mute stuttering, up to 64 scratchable sample players and loopers, and VST/AU plugin support.
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Putting Frets on the Turntable

by on Jan.01, 2011, under Advanced Features, Digital DJ

When a DJ runs his hands across a turntable, he doesn’t think about the pitch he is aiming for, he just feels it.  Move your hand quicker and you get a higher pitch, pull the vinyl back at high speed and get that high pitched vinyl scream that has defined so many grooves.

In this way a  turntable is an instrument more like a violin that a guitar.  No notes of off limits, you can spin the vinyl to produce frequency shifts of any magnitude.  With Livetronica Studio you can turn the turntable sensitivity up to well beyond that of a realistic turntable, and even hit freq shifts that are unrealistic or impossible on real turntables.

But lets go a step further.  What if, like the instrument woodworker putting the first frets on a mandolin you could produce a new instrument, one that was prone to certain note intervals, one that allowed certain notes but not others? The answer is pitch quantization.  Just as guitar has frets for every semitone, you can quantize the virtual turntables in Livetronica Studio to produce pitch shifts the correspond only to semitonic intervals.  Or, like some other instruments, you can quantize to only the major or minor intervals, or the blues or jazz scales.  There are even options for modal, flamenco and middle eastern scales in Livetronica Studio.

Not satisfied with sticking to a scale?  You can also set how strictly the turntable adheres to the scale.  You can push and pull the notes … sliding like a guitarist bending a note from one pitch to another to strain to hit that perfect blue note between the intervals.  It’s all there, Livetronica Studio has the most advanced pitch quantization of any tool in the dj’s arsenal.

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DJ Turntablism

by on Apr.02, 2009, under Advanced Features, Digital DJ

FlyLoops is a product that takes digital djing to a new level. Just one twist … you’ll need instruments. This is a looping device, and although it can open files as well as any other vdj turntable software, its best features come out when you record and spin live loops. You can even loop the output of the turntables as you scratch them, taking the music in a whole new direction. Group looping: If in a group of musicians, you can easily map any midi controller can be used to record any audio input, thereby grabbing a quick loop from any musician in the room, without getting audio from the rest of the group. What can you do with FlyLoops that you others can’t?
  • vst effects
  • record and manage multiple loops live , Controlling what loop(s) sit on what turntables
  • Resync intuitively to a chord progression
  • Frequency shift to 64x, bpm shift to 64x
  • Quantize how the turntables can shift the Freq, allow only certain scales
  • Quantize the bpm shifts, allowing or emphasizing certain types of beats
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Turntable Sensitivity and Friction Parameters

by on Mar.27, 2009, under Advanced Features, Digital DJ

Turntable Parameters: Of course, not every turntable has the same feel.  Some are high and airy, some are lumbering and dark.  What makes the difference?  And what tool should the digital DJ have to get the full range of these sounds and feels easily at his/her disposal?  The answer can be found in FlyLoops turntable Parameters. With FlyLoops you can control the turntable sensitivity and friction of each turntable independently.
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