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It comes as no surprise to me that djay Pro has won a second Apple design award, the first company to do so. Backslapping aside, there are very good reasons for this, and one of those is accessibility. And a key Apple technology called VoiceOver allows visually impaired DJs use djay Pro even though seeing what is happening is normally a prerequisite to performing.
You’ll see it happening in this video from the WWDC this year. Ryan Dour who works in the accessibility team at Apple is also a DJ, and using VoiceOver he can get audio feedback from the controls in djay Pro. As the video shows, this feedback can be pushed into the cue channels so the audience doesn’t hear it. Clever stuff.
Djay Pro for Mac can be purchased from App Store. Please refer to the Hardware diagram below for the functions controlled by DDJ-200. Hardware diagram for djay Pro for Mac Operating environment for djay Pro for Mac For the latest information on the operating environment of djay Pro. Apr 10, 2018 Problem 1) djay for Windows doesn't (yet) support ASIO drivers, meaning it can only use a single stereo pair for output. The DDJ-RB is an ASIO-based device with four (two stereo) outputs; one pair for the headphone cueing, one pair for the master out. Apr 19, 2017 The Bottom Line. Powerful DJ software comes to the Windows 10 app store. Algoriddim djay Pro offers beat and key matching, excellent effects, and support for the Microsoft Surface Dial.
Some PR:
Algoriddim wins 2016 Apple Design Award for djay Pro on iPad and Mac
Apple honors Algoriddim for outstanding design and innovation, particularly for making its DJ software fully accessible to the visually impaired
(MUNICH, Germany) – June 23, 2016 Algoriddim, creators of the world’s best selling DJ app with over 20 million downloads, wins the 2016 Apple Design Award. After receiving the award in 2011 for djay for iPad, Algoriddim is the first developer to receive the coveted award twice for the same product line since the introduction of the App Store. According to Apple djay Pro was selected for the second time as an Apple Design Award winner because it sets new benchmarks for performance, features, use of Apple technology, multidevice support, and most importantly for being accessible to the visually impaired. Apple demoed the app by having a blind DJ drop a few beats during the awards ceremony:
“We are incredibly honored to receive the Apple Design Award for the second time,” said Karim Morsy, CEO of Algoriddim. “We founded Algoriddim 10 years ago with the vision to make DJing accessible to anyone. By now making our app fully accessible for the visually impaired, we have expanded our mission to open the world of DJing to blind users and take away their barriers to musical creativity. We hope to inspire more developers to make their software accessible, with relatively little effort you can make a big difference to people’s lives.”
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By adding support for VoiceOver, djay Pro allows people with disabilities to use a fullfeatured DJ setup to mix music, whether professionally or as someone who just loves to play with music. Every feature of djay Pro has been carefully adapted for accessibility, so vision impaired users can seamlessly dive into the app and take advantage of its advanced mixing features.
With VoiceOver enabled, tripleclicking the Home button allows users to tap any button or slider in djay Pro to hear a description of what it does, its state, and how to operate it. For example, tapping the tempo slider will tell by what percentage a song’s tempo has been changed, the BPM display will read out its number of beats per minute, and djay Pro will even tell users the key of a song as in “B flat minor”. This process allows visually impaired users both navigate and explore the user interface while ensuring they are always hitting the intended button. By double tapping the individual control the user can then perform the original action.
The basic process of DJing is to seamlessly mix the playing track into the next track. And to do this successfully, you need to be able to prelisten or cue the next track in your headphones to make sure it’s beatmatched and sounding great for the dance floor. Djay 3 ios shortcuts. djay Pro’s seamless support for multichannel audio interfaces not only make this possible, but with VoiceOver enabled users can even hear a description of everything happening on their screen through their headphones independent of the mix that is playing through the main speakers. This revolutionizes the workflow for impaired users and opens to them the door to live creativity like never before.
Over the past 10 years, Algoriddim established itself as a leading innovator of DJ software winning multiple Apple Design Awards, App of the Year, and more than 8 Editors’ Choice awards from the App Store and Google Play across 5 different platforms. Working with top tier hardware brands, Algoriddim has made DJing accessible to millions of users around the globe. djay Pro for iPad opens a new chapter for professional DJs and VJs as the first solution to truly leverage the capabilities of iPad Pro and to be fully accessible to the visually impaired.
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Official Video: https://youtu.be/gY6ZdiKsXx0
App Store Link: http://www.algoriddim.com/store/djayproipadhttp://www.algoriddim.com/store/djaypromac
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Pricing:
$19.99 on iPad, $49.99 on Mac
Technology allows DJing to be way more inclusive that it used to be. And I’m sure that companies will work out ways to let people with all manner of challenging circumstances be able to rock a party. I’ll certainly be throwing my weight behind helping algoriddim do this. Good work guys — bloody good work.
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Today I’d like to ask a question to our more adventurous, minimal and/or portable gear-loving DJs. That is: Have you ever come across and used any wireless headphones and/or speakers for DJing that are actually useable? Crossover games download mac.
We’ve tested software like Algoriddim’s djay with Bluetooth speakers, for instance, and were also shown a working prototype of a pair of Bluetooth headphones aimed at DJs at the NAMM show (they’ve never hit the market though). We are also big fans of Sonos for throwing music around the home. The problem with such technologies, of course, is always latency (the time it takes for the signal to hit your ears/the audience after you do something on your DJ system), as DJing and latency do not complement each other at all.
The only working method we’ve ever seen has been radio (as in the same kind of technology used for radio microphones or for those little FM transmitters you can use to “broadcast” your iPad to the car stereo on long journeys – great for convoys!), but we’ve never seen any decent DJ-friendly gear along these lines.
The reason we’re asking is purely because a few folk over on the forum appear to be interested in this stuff, we’re hearing rumblings in the industry about wireless / Bluetooth PA systems, and also we just love anything that’s gadgety in DJing… as long as it works well, of course. Ideas?
So, over to you: Have you ever used any kind of wireless headphoes or speakers for DJing? How did you get on ? Anything you can recommend? Or do you wonder why anyone might ever want such a thing in the first place? Please let us know in the comments.