Reply to Livetronica Studio, the next generation of DJ DAWs.

So this DJ DAW called Livetronica Studio by Stage Craft Software.com is software for, "looping, scratching, turntablism, controllerism, VST/AU hosting, and all sorts of live music making. Comes with tight Soundcloud integration, easy midi mapping for complete control, intense turntable visualization, and timecoded vinyl support."



The GUI is butt ugly but the functionality looks beautiful. Of course this isn't the only DAW application to take on the DJ experience but unlike "The One" this application looks to be making progress not lip service.

In other words it is free to download the BETA. If you decide to download the BETA and play with it post your thoughts here. You should also make a video for the software developer. In the video below he pokes fun at his DJing abilities and wants a community of DJs to show him what his software can do. I believe this community can take that challenge.



So here are the key features...

• independent loop tracks with all the functionality of any hardware looper
• virtual turntables which can be scratched with mouse, timecoded vinyl or midi devices
• beat splicing and bpm shifting on loops/turntables or master tempo
• excellent, versatile midi learn function
• infinite stacking on any loop
• volume,pan,mute,solo for each loop independently
• multiply, overwrite, append, stutter, reverse
• tempo and pitch shifting
• auto fade in/out
• VST/AU hosting for effects and instruments
• crossfade, grouping, intelligent turntable resyncing

Oh and there is this thing the developer is calling, "Turntable Quantization." With Livetronica 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. Just as guitar has frets for every semitone, you can quantize the virtual turntables in Livetronica 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. 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 has the most advanced pitch quantization of any tool in the dj’s arsenal.