I’d like to congratulate the djay dev team for implementing the truly amazing and FUNctional idea of stemming effects with Neural Mix!
I was so pleasantly surprised by happening upon this nuanced and interesting way to change up audio.
I like it because it’s less a sledgehammer when an effect is applied to the whole sound. I can subtly apply the kinetic energy of a Phaser to just the drums without mangling the vocals or keyboards. Likewise, Sweep effect can be added to just vocals for a fresh sound without making the beats and bass all gooey and weird.
Applying Neural Mix effects also hides that too-compressed digital crunchiness that often results from using Neural Mix on the song itself which means I’ll actually use this tech more.
Well done, Algoriddim, in taking a deep and rich technology and applying it in interesting and exciting ways!
My hope is as Algoriddim refines the tech (and future hardware enhancements are released) this excellent feature will propagate in the family of djay apps.
btw, @StretchWatson, I’ve heard the iPad Pro and latest iOS djay support hand gestures. Have you tried that? I have a 2018 iPad 6th gen and it doesn’t support that feature.
I haven’t tried it, it sounded kinda gimmicky but I can see the visual/flair benefits of it for iPad only DJ’s - the linked video really brings back memories of watching people play rhythm games at the arcade! I’ll test it out, you never know…it might be so good that I sell my controller.
Agreed, this is a hard sell for me. It could be fun to try and if it works without hiccups and totally intuitively then great. But even if perfect I don’t really wanna be holding my hands out too much during performance.
Still, some crowds might really dig a DJ doing a sort of kinetic hand dance and anything that makes a DJ stop with the “glow face” boringness of statically hunched over a screen for an hour or more is good by me.
