Image Line Deckadance Club Edition is a DJ mixing application that
works either as a standalone program or as a VSTi plugin inside your
favorite host. You can control Deckadance using your mouse, keyboard
& most existing midi controllers & time coded vinyl and CD
systems. Image-Line, the company behind Deckadance, has more than 10
years of experience in writing and managing audio software such as FL
Studio. In developing Deckadance, they didn't just bring in some
consulting DJs to tell our software engineers what they wanted.
Deckadance was written by DJs, for DJs.
Image Line Deckadance
Club Edition can map to any generic MIDI device using our
'auto-learning' midi function, and it natively supports Vestax VCI-100
& VCM-100, DJ-Tech i-mix & i-mix Reload, SYNC PCM-1, Behringer
BCD2000 and 3000, M-Audio X-Session & Xponent, Allen & Heath
Xone:3D, Hurcules DJ console MP3 & MKII, Kontrol-DJ, Numark Total
Control & ESK XP10&XP5.
Image Line Deckadance Club
Edition can be controlled using a mouse or Midi Controller as well as
most (if not all) of the existing timecoded vinyl & CD systems, via
our 'autolearning' function. Deckadance has been tested with timecode
vinyls & CD's from msPinky, Stanton FinalScratch, MixVibes, Serato
Scratch Live, Virtual DJ, PCDJ Reflex & Torq.
The 8 integrated Deckadance sampler banks can record 1, 2, 4 or 8 beat
loops straight from one of the decks. You can then trigger them
on-the-fly or play them back in perfect sync with the beat of your
mix. Record parts of your track and play them back as loops or
one-shot samples, using one of the 8 inbuilt sampler slots.
Features:
- LOAD WAV - Loads wave files from disk.
- SAVE WAV - Saves the current sample to disk as a WAV file.
- Volume (Vertical Fader) - Controls the output level of the sampler slot.
- Play button - Left-click for momentary playback, right-click for continuous playback.
- REC. LOOP - Records the current output from Deckadance.
- BEAT SYNC - Select to play samples on-cue and in time with the current track (if a beat is detected).
- A / B - Assigns the sampler to deck A or B.
- Headphones) - Sends the output to the headphone mix bus.
- Effects (Horizontal Fader) - Left: Low Pass filter. Right: High Pass filter.
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Line Deckadance Club Edition provides live loop and leap capabilities
not found in any other DJ application. The loop and leap functions
allow to loop any 1, 2, 4 or beat pattern and either loop and continue
or 'leap' to the song position had looping not occured. The integrated
ReLooper will also allow you to trigger your own loops on any deck,
beat perfect, every time.
The re-looper works by slicing and
re-arranging the sample currently in the playback buffer for the
associated deck. The region to be re-looped is defined by the beat
markers bounding the playback marker (center of the Beat Window).
Re-looper patterns can be used on any track and on the bar that is
currently playing. Note:Reloopers are randomized on Deckadance startup,
if you want other 'random' patterns, just hit the 'randomize' button.
More Features:
- Mute
and Re-trigger - Right-click on the pattern blocks to cycle through
Mute and 1, 1/2, 1/4th note re-trigger options. Useful for
- 'stutter' effects.
- To
activate pattern 1 to 3 - Left-click the 'Re-looper 1, 2 or 3' buttons
in the Effects panel for momentary effects. Right-click to engage
- permanently. Left or right-click to disengage the re-loop.
- PATTERNS 1, 2 & 3 - Click to edit the pattern. There are three patterns per deck.
- CLEAR PATTERN - Clears the pattern and creates a straight playback pattern.
- RANDOMIZE - Creates a random relooper pattern.
- BEAT ALIGN - Aligns beats.
- MIXED MODE - The pattern will play back as a 50:50 mix of the relooper and original track output.
- SWAP - Swaps the patterns between the Decks.
The
Master Effects don't work when Deckadance is used multiple output mode,
ie: Deck A in one stereo out and Deck B in another. The Master Effects
will only work on a Master Output.
-WHA-WHA FILTER - Wah wha effect.
House/Daft punk style wah wah doubled (parallel) bandpass filter effect
with lo-fi decimation.
-PANORAMIC LFO - Left/Right LFO modulated autopanner with some 3d effect phasing effects.
-RING-MODULATOR - Amplitude driven ring modulator (Argu stays it's 'cool!').
-TRACK-CODER
- Lo-Fi distortion effect combining low order vocoder (16 bands), pitch
tracking with sawtooth synthesis and foldback
distortion mixed with original signal.
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Line Deckadance Club Edition can load any VST compliant softsynth or
effect to give you unlimited creative potential. Included with
Deckadance is our own DirectWave Player (VSTi), a loop-player that
gives you total control over the sub-parts of the mix. They don't
skimp on the VST effects either with the fully functioning JuicePack
effects collection thrown in to sweeten the mix. Deckadance can also
be used as a standalone program or as a VSTi plugin inside your
favorite VST host such as FL Studio, Live, Sonar, Cubase, etc. If it
can host VSTs, you can host Deckadance.
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Club Edition VST slots accept both Instrument and Effect plugins. VST
(Virtual Studio Technology) plugins such as The Juice Pack that are a
great addition to the inbuilt effects in Deckadance. 3rd Party VST
plugins: The internet is bursting with 3rd party plugins, a great place
to start looking is KVR. However be careful not to go on-stage before
thoroughly testing any VST you use inside Deckadance, remember they are
programs not under our control and can crash, bringing your PC down
with them.
System Requirements:
If
your system meets the minimum system requirements, your free system
resources (memory, CPU etc) may still impose limits on the performance
of Deckadance.
-Processor:
-PC: Intel Pentium III (or equivalent), Athlon XP
-Mac: Intel Mac or G4 (1.25 GHz)
-OS:
-PC: Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista
-Mac: OSX v10.4 (Universal Binary)
-Memory:
-512MB ram
-Hard Disk Space:
-200MB free space.
-GFX:
-A decent graphic card will make the Deckadance experience a lot more enjoyable.
-Monitor:
-Minimum horizontal resolution of 1024 pixels.
-Sound card:
-PC: DirectSound or ASIO compatible soundcard
-Mac: Sound card with CoreAudio drivers
Deckadance
runs multiple threads (audio, graphics, beat analysis, file searching,
native USB controller IO, preview monitoring etc) so large performance
gains may be expected on multi-core systems.