djDecks Changelog

What's new in djDecks 1.00

Jan 26, 2013
  • Large part of the program rewritten from scratch
  • Support for Video and Karaoke files added
  • Improved browser, playlist, autoplay, search and logging
  • Support for various controllers added
  • Performance improvements
  • More flexible audio engine: mix ASIO, WASAPI and DirectSound devices
  • Skin engine now hardware accelerated using DirectX

New in djDecks 0.9.9 (Jul 5, 2010)

  • Improved: Master Tempo quality
  • Improved: Reloop Digital Jockey mapping
  • Improved: MP4/M4A file playback including m4a's encoded with ALAC codec
  • Fixed: Various bugs related to loading and storing m4a/mp4 tags
  • Fixed: Bug preventing pitch-bend to respond in some cases when tempocontrol was enabled
  • Fixed: Bug that could cause all files to be shown as played
  • Fixed: Keyboard/ud_loop_reversed not working correctly
  • Fixed: FX select button on AA-DP2

New in djDecks 0.9.8 (May 25, 2010)

  • Added: Storing m4a/mp4 tags
  • Added: New smart playlist feature: group by range and createddays, modifieddays fields
  • Added: Denon controller option to select match button action
  • Added: Negative fade time selection to add a gap between songs during automix
  • Added: Reading of AIFF tags
  • Added: Option to record mixes in FLAC and AIFF format
  • Added: Option to automatically load first cue point when opening a song
  • Added: echo_source_end and echo_stereo_pingpong parameters for echo (to be used in your own skin or midi mapping for example)
  • Added: Initial support for Reloop Digital Jockey 2 controller
  • Improved: DJ-Tech i-Mix controller mapping
  • Improved: No more click when activating or deactivating tempo control
  • Improved: Jog wheel touch response of vci-100 controller
  • Improved: Year tag field can now be read from both TDRC and TYER frames
  • Improved: Audio CD playback should work better now
  • Improved: Search while typing works faster
  • Fixed: Opening files from explorer using open with
  • Fixed: Problem with using certain 24-bit ASIO inputs
  • Fixed: Possible playlist search crash
  • Fixed: Problem browsing network shares
  • Fixed: Various issues with pitch bend for sampler
  • Fixed: HC4500 display updated when returning from CD mode
  • Fixed: Bug preventing 2 denon hs-5500's to be used simultaneously
  • Fixed: Turning on mic with BCD-2000 caused VST effect on deck 3 to be disabled
  • Fixed: Small artefacts when resizing a skin
  • Fixed: Deleting/Renaming cases using Case button
  • Fixed: Preview player not working with DirectSound output

New in djDecks 0.9.6 (Jul 27, 2009)

  • Added: Rating column to tag editor and playlist columns
  • Added: Some harmonic mixing features: changing key, and showing/matching to camelot scale (Key tag has to be available in tag)
  • Added: Support for playback of Monkey's Audio files
  • Added: Support for playback of m4a/mp4 files through DirectShow (when proper codec, such as DivX 7 for example is installed)
  • Added: Option to enable tempocontrol only while pitch-bending for inaudible beat-match corrections
  • Added: Option to send midi MTC clock signal (for use in combination with DMX lighting software for example)
  • Added: Initial support for user-created beat-grids
  • Added: Initial support for DJ-Tech i-Mix, DJ-Tech i-Mix Reload and DJ-Tech Kontrol One controllers
  • Added: New EQ type Full Spectrum, which is a little stronger, and mid-eq better complements low and high eq -Improved: Automatic beat-grid detection
  • Improved: Stanton DaScratch controller support
  • Improved: Volume levels for samples are stored in the sampleset
  • Improved: Tempocontrol quality
  • Fixed: Problem switching decks on HS-5500 controller
  • Fixed: Using MsPinky vinyl at samplerates other than 44.1khz
  • Fixed: Problem with using stereo-offset for gapper effect
  • Fixed: Some problems when activating tempo-control where pitch could get stuck
  • Fixed: Playlist columns sometimes not correctly restored at startup
  • Fixed: Importing m3u playlists with drag and drop
  • Fixed: Problem with using scripts inside midi xml configuration
  • Fixed: Various playlist, browser and search bugs
  • Fixed: Preview player in playlist/browser not working correctly for DirectSound output modes
  • Fixed: Playback of .cue files (.cue in combination with mix or cd-rip for example)

New in djDecks 0.9.4 (Apr 15, 2009)

  • Added: EKS Otus controller support
  • Added: Stanton SCS.3d DaScratch controller support
  • Added: Create and edit Smart Playlists (dynamically generated)
  • Added: Option to disable tempocontrol while doing effects
  • Added: Sampler can be controlled using HC-4500 controller
  • Added: Support for Edcast Winamp plugin for streaming
  • Added: Dump effect
  • Improved: Completely new tag database (improves loading and browsing speed)
  • Improved: Reading iTunes playlists is much faster now
  • Improved: Compatibility with Denon HS-3700 controller
  • Improved: Selecting and re-ordering columns in playlist can now be done by right-clicking the header
  • Improved: Compatibility with 64-bit Windows versions
  • Fixed: Some crashes that could occur with certain mp3, wma and wav files
  • Fixed: BPM Detection utility stores settings correctly on Vista
  • Fixed: Various sampler bugs
  • Fixed: Problem with unicode characters in ogg and flac tags

New in djDecks 0.9.2.6711 (Feb 10, 2009)

  • Added: Allen&Heath Xone:2D controller support
  • Added: Denon HS-5500 support
  • Added: Auto Fade Start position option
  • Added: Script/Skin/Midi commands OverdubMonitor and SynchronizedLoop
  • Improved: Various improvements for PCDJ DAC-2 and DAC-3 controllers
  • Improved: New tempocontrol algorithm for higher quality keylock
  • Improved: Reading and writing of wav tags
  • Improved: Search will now also find songs with unicode tags
  • Improved: Number of allowed stored loops and cue points increased from 20 to 100
  • Fixed: Various autoplay problems
  • Fixed: Problem adding files to playlist from explorer
  • Fixed: Various sampler bugs
  • Fixed: Bugs reading certain ID3v2 tags

New in djDecks 0.9.0.654 (Sep 10, 2008)

  • Added: Denon DN-S1200 controller support
  • Added: Hercules DJ Console RMX support
  • Added: EKS XP5 support
  • Added: OverDubInput feature to record audio over a track (only available by assigning keyboard/midi shortcut or creating your own skin at the moment)
  • Fixed: Reading certain ID3v2 tags, and speed improvement for unsynchronized ID3v2 tags
  • Fixed: Problem reading certain WAV and FLAC files
  • Fixed: Problem using VST effects on master output
  • Improved: Skins load faster now
  • Improved: Various improvements for DAC-3 and HC-4500 controller
  • Improved: Searching can now be done with exact match, or AND search
  • Improved: Cue Points can now be stored in WAV tags
  • Improved: Various script fixes, improvements and additions
  • Improved: Various skinning fixes, improvements and additions

New in djDecks 0.88 (Jun 7, 2008)

  • Added: Denon DN-HC4500 controller support
  • Added: Vestax VCM-100 support and support for using 2 VCI's (or 1 VCI and 1 VCM) together
  • Added: Numark Total Control controller support
  • Added: Autoplay folder or playlist can be selected now
  • Added: Direct search field in default skin
  • Added: AIFF file support
  • Fixed: Some problems when using the 4th output
  • Fixed: Some problems with previewing tracks in browser
  • Fixed: Some problems with Audio CD playback
  • Fixed: Bug when scratching around loop ends with a midi controller
  • Fixed: Reading certain ID3v2 tags
  • Fixed: Some problems with AutoPlay
  • Fixed: Some sampler bugs
  • Improved: MIDI output is now compatible with more MIDI devices
  • Improved: Various script fixes, improvements and additions
  • Improved: Various skinning fixes, improvements and additions