Virtual DJ Studio Review

I was watching yesterday a very funny commercial on TV about a young man who said his job is to have fun – he works as a party organizer – so practically he’s paid to have fun. And immediately I thought about the music at such parties – in order to have a great success at making cool parties, you need to have the right tools as well – and since many DJs use laptops, I’m going to present to you a program that really puts value into music mixing at a party – the Virtual DJ Studio.

This software is produced by the same company that also created a very good audio editor - NGWave that is – and it presents quite a good alternative for people who wish to play music tracks with the effect of crossfading in order to give the impression that the songs are well interconnected. The greetings from the first start of the program are quite a nice touch from the developers and they give you a reason to start exploring the program.

Not only is this software-mixer a multiple music track player, but also it is a Karaoke player! Yes, that is right, you can listen and sing on your favorite tracks – but you will need specially created Karaoke tracks in the CDG file format – and the developer is nice enough to point you on the official website to programs that can do this task for free. Like I said above – this program can really help you boost a party to unprecedented levels of interactivity and enjoyment, and you only need a small table where you can put your laptop with the amplification system and the mixing-software, the Virtual DJ Studio.

Applicability: Any DJ would want this piece of software as it is highly valuable in this kind of job: it gives the possibility of inserting (loading) up to 17 tracks (!) and then playing them one after another with the auto-crossfading option enabled. You can also tweak the big equalizer from the main panel and also the individual 5-band equalizer from each track line.

Pro(s): This program does offer very many options and features that can compete with other more expensive pieces of DJ software – the price is convenient and it is very simple to use.

Con(s): This program is not really new – it has been on the DJ software market for a long time and one would think that the developers would learn from past mistakes – but they didn’t in this case – while the software looks ok on Windows Vista – there is a little problem about the interface – it was quite unstable when Windows XP SP2 was released (it didn’t work well until they released - after a long time - a fixed version!). There is still something wrong – but may be only occurring on Windows Vista – the area between the song counter (in any line) and the blue-light oscillator seems to create some trails after the mouse goes over it sometimes while playing a song. It’s not a big issue – it disappears after some time but it shows that the interface needs some improvements.

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Buy: $39.95

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