Digital DJ
Cloud in a DAW
by Aaron 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
Add a Turntable to your DAW!
by Aaron 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
The Sequencer Arrives
by Aaron 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.
New Styling for the New Year!
by Aaron on Dec.25, 2012, under Basic Features, Digital DJ
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!
Automating a Scratch
by Aaron 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!
Vinyl Support Arrives
by Aaron 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.
Putting Frets on the Turntable
by admin 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.
DJ Turntablism
by admin on Apr.02, 2009, under Advanced Features, Digital DJ
- 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
Turntable Sensitivity and Friction Parameters
by admin on Mar.27, 2009, under Advanced Features, Digital DJ
The DJ Console
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