The heart of VDJ is that virtually everything is scriptable or has some type of parameter or selection that could be modified to what you need. VDJ has almost every little thing under the hood is something that you can change. Other platforms you are locked into their hardware, and in most cases very little is controllable. This stigma of what is professional software or not is a tired argument, to begin with, but to date, there is no other software out there that is this customizable. Now I’m sure they are not going to go out there a way for every little request, but it makes sense, they are not opposed to improving their platform from users feedback, The “VDJ Is not professional software” discussionįirst and foremost I cringe every single time that I hear that VDJ is “not professionalĭJing software”. Imagine getting that type of response from Serato (well maybe if you are Jeff or Skratch Bastid). I threw a ticket upon the feature and they simply implemented it. I noticed that grouping wasn’t searchable in VDJ but the id3 field was there in the grid.
So good that I want to talk about an experience I had. I’ll throw a question out on the Facebook forums orĮven the tech support forums at the VDJ site and typically get a very good response. I have spent some months on this and I think I know the application pretty well, but I am learning new things every time even to this day. PrefaceĪ quick note before we jump into all this… I am NOT a VDJ expert. So what do I think of it? Well, here’s my report on it. And the fact that Serato to this day has not really incorporated anything close to what I need in addition to what they have, most likely because Serato is more of a “purist” application for DJs (scratch DJs in particular) I knew that I would have to give VDJ a try,Īnd thanks for DJ Rachel Lynch for pushing me, I decided to give it a whirl for the past few months starting in November 2018 and taking it exclusively for gigs. For instance, I will tend not to be behind my booth for a cocktail and dinner as I tend to be talking to the couple, the guests, vendors, and executing everything that needs to happen other than music. When I approached selecting my software I had simplicity in mind, but as time has come and gone, as a wedding DJ I needed more tools. The interface seemed wonky, not intuitive, and I honestly just did not give it a thorough walkthrough to consider. Now I did give Virtual DJ (VDJ) back in late 2012/early 2013 a try, but VDJ threw me for a loop. Since I originally started on wax, and later CDs, I wanted something a little more simple, and Serato Scratch Live (SSL) fit the bill and I stuck with Serato, changing over to Serato DJ (SDJ) and now Serato DJ Pro (SDJ-P) exclusively till recently. I just could not get my S2 to respond to my scratches to how I liked it, and overall the application seemed more geared towards live producers than the simple two-turntables-and-a-mixer styled DJ which favored the EDM crowd. Q-Bert had made a big deal at the time of it, so I gave it a whirl. I chose Traktor because there was a seeming trend towards it, especially in Europe. I had a Traktor S2 controller (now it has an MK2 variant) and I had started to use it in 2011 as a bedroom DJ since at that time I was 12 years out of the last professional gig I had done, and I had no idea that I’d be starting Paris Creative just one year later. VDJ 8? Serato? Why even bring this up?Īll right so to give you a little bit of history of my background, when I got into DJing once again I actually started on Traktor. There are a number videos so far in this series.
Virtual DJ is literally one of the most contentious topics in all of DJing. But if you are a long time user of Serato, does it offer something more? The short answer is yes, but the long answer is it depends. Thanks to a bunch of new articles and videos out there, the buzz around Virtual DJ is growing.
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