PCDJ DEX
One of the latest DJ software releases is DEX by PCDJ. With it’s slick looking interface, and the optional PCDJ Red looking skin, PCDJ looks to be one hot product. Along with a list of impressive features, PCDJ DEX also supports a long list of hardware choices. PCDJ DAC-3, DENON DN-HC4500, Behringer BCD-2000, Hercules DJ Console (Regular, Mk2, Control MP3), Vestax VCI-100, and EKS XP10 are all capable of controlling the software. PCDJ DEX can also be used along with FinalScratch, VirtualDJ, SSL and MsPinky digital vinyl records. Any other MIDI controller can also be used to control the software.
PCDJ DEX also has a very advanced BPM detection that will help you synchronize your tracks. It’s very easy to set a cue-point and start your song exactly wher you want. Beat-matching two tracks is also made easier by using the virtual record to speed a song up or down.
Here’s a list of all the features from the PCDJ DEX website:
Features
Play mp3, wma, ogg, flac, wav, or directly from a CD
Change pitch with 4 different ranges from +/-8% to +/-100%
Change volume, play and pause (instant-start) with low latency (up to 2ms with ASIO, up to 10ms with DirectSound)
Edit ID3v2 tags for mp3’s and the ogg vorbis tag for ogg files
Fast and accurate automatic BPM detection
Pre-Listening
Through Soundcard rear-out
Through Left/Right splitter or
Through Second Soundcard
Mix on an external mixer
Player 1 to Front Out, Player 2 to Rear Out or
Player 1 to Soundcard 1, Player 2 to Soundcard 2
DirectSound or ASIO output
Spectrum analyzer, stereo VU Meter
Configurable song break and startup speed for turntable-like effects
Effects (on each deck)
3-band equalizer with on the fly changeable frequencies
Echo/Sampler/Looping
Create echo effect, high pass and low pass filter available on echoed sound
Echo/Loop time configurable up to 8 beats
Volume of buffer and source both configurable
Easy looping with shortcut keys
Flanger
Automatic or Manual
Configurable Strength
Compressor/Normalizer
Gapper effect
Filter effect
Bitcrusher
Automatic 0dB limiter to prevent clipping
Tempo Control: Change speed without changing pitch, or change pitch without changing speed
Load up to 2 custom VST effects simultaneously on each deck
Mixer
Crossfader with 4 different fade-curves, and configurable slope
Spectrum Analyzer, stereo VU meter
Limiter to prevent clipping
Output samplerate up to 96kHz/16-bit for DirectSound and 96kHz/32-bit for ASIO
VST effect possible on main output as well
External Hardware Supported
External analog mixer supported
PCDJ DAC-3
DENON DN-HC4500
Behringer BCD-2000
Hercules DJ Console (Regular, Mk2, Control MP3)
Vestax VCI-100
EKS XP10
FinalScratch, VirtualDJ, SSL and MsPinky digital vinyl records to control your music
Any MIDI controller
Other
Record your mix in mp3, wave or ogg format
Create your own skins with PCDJ DEX advanced skinning system
Separate BPM Analyzer to batch analyze your complete music library
Playlist/Music Browser/Recordcase
Easily navigate through your music directories
Shows all tracks based on id3v1, id3v2 and ogg tag information (title, BPM, length, …)
Sort your music in crates
Search for music by typing part of title, artist, album, comment field
Give each song a specific color for easy sorting
Browse directories or files by album art
Save playlist in winamp playlist format, or to html
Open winamp playlists
Drag&Drop tracks from windows explorer
Shows .cue + .mp3 files (as extracted with EAC for example) as directory
Requirements:
Minimum system requirements:
PIII 800 MHz computer
1024×768 SVGA video
DirectX or ASIO compatible soundcard
256 MB RAM
40 MB free on the hard-drive
Recommended configuration:
PIV 1.2 GHz computer
DirectX Video Card such as:
4.1 DirectX or ASIO compatible soundcard (with front and rear separate outputs)
512 MB RAM
200 MB free on the hard-drive
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how do we get it?
websites??
You can get it at http://www.pcdj.com
Love this title deff worth the money!
not so friendly user…
it is very good
I hope it will be good either
its almost the same djdecks
Just downloaded the trial demo it seems pretty good so far. Im using it with the Hercules RMX controller and it supported it right out of the box. It scanned the music pretty fast detecting bpm really well. The interface is nice and intuitive. Ill keep playing with it and post back in a few days
Ok played around with it for a while. I like the native Hercules RMX DJ controller support. It worked great with hardly any noticeable lag in controls. It scans the music wave form really fast with hardly any impact on my computers performance. Plus the skin is beautiful and well made. Only dislikes i have is sometimes ill have weird distorted crackle sound in my cue for headphones. Sounded like my headphones were blown. But it only does it once in a while.Virtual dj i never had this problem and still dont.I also have a problem with the music browser and how it only writes the BPM to the mp3 id tag after scanning each individual song. So no right click scan all. And it only puts the BPM tag in after you close out of the program >.
The interface is too busy, there is a lot of unnecessary functions, good for bedroom use but not enough for professional use. I will stick to traktor and virtual dj for now.
DJ Chris!
I enjoyed the writings above.
My question is ; why you use both Traktor an Virtual dj togetehr? Both are not perfect for your purpose? Or you just enjoy both?
Please make me clear.
Thanks!
I’M USING PCDJ DEX WITH BEHRINGER BCD 2000 CONTROLLER. SO FAR, SO GOOD WITH FUNCTIONALITY BUT, I CAN’T CUE UP TRACKS SEPERATELY WHILE MIXING! I.E. IF A SONG IS PLAYING IN DECK-A AND CROSSFADER IS ON DECK-A, WHEN I HIT DECK-B…NOTHING!!! I GET IN MY PHONES JUST WHAT IS PLAYING IN PROGRAM. (HEARING MASTER OUTPUT IN PHONES SAME AS ACTUAL OUTPUT) I’VE GONE THROUGH EVERY SETTING IN THE SOFTWARE…NO FIXING IT…ANY HELP WOULD GREATLY BE APPRECIATED! THX, DJ RU$H