djay for iPad

Introducing djay for iPad, the full-fledged iPad DJ app.

Apple Design Award - iPad Developer Showcase - 2011 Winner

djay transforms your iPad into a full-fledged DJ system, allowing you to mix your music library on a hyper-realistic turntable interface. Perform live, record mixes on-the-go, or enable Automix mode and let djay mix your favorite playlist automatically. With unprecedented ease-of-use and innovative multi-touch mixing features, djay for iPad takes DJing to the next level and offers a unique experience for beginners and professionals alike.

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Feature Highlights

Direct access to your music library

Direct access to your music library djay gives you instant access to all your existing songs and playlists on your iPad. Browse your entire music library and easily play, mix, and scratch your favorite songs as an iPad DJ.

Automix your party

Automix your party One tap — hours of fun. Sit back and wow the audience at your next party. In Automix mode djay mixes your favorite iPod playlists with seamless DJ-style transitions. You can customize Automix to your liking by adjusting various transition options such as style, duration, shuffle, and auto-sync.

Record your performance

Record your performance Capture your mix live — for your latest podcast, movie or photo slide show, or to make a classic “mixtape”. djay saves your recordings as high quality AIFF files and contains a built-in organizer that allows you to arrange, preview and export your recordings to Mac or PC via iTunes file sharing.

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Scratch. Mix. Play.

Automatic Beat & Tempo Detection

Automatic beat & tempo detection

djay’s sophisticated on-the-fly song analysis calculates the beats per minute (BPM) and exact location of each beat, laying the groundwork for a host of other features including Auto-Sync and beat-synchronized scratching.

Visual mixing with waveforms

Visual mixing with waveforms

djay's advanced audio wave form display gives you an overview of a song's structure and allows you to visually cue to specific points to prepare the prefect transition.

Auto-Cut Scratching™

Auto-Cut Scratching Auto-Cut Scratching automatically applies the rhythmic pattern of the currently playing song to your scratches in real-time. Simply touch and move the record with two fingers to create stunning effects and go beyond the possibilities of the analog world.

Mixer and EQ controls

Mixer and EQ controls

3-band equalizers, gain, line faders, and a crossfader give you all the tools you need in a DJ setup to seamlessly blend one song into another.

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Remix On-The-Fly

High-Quality Audio FX

High-Quality Audio FX

Spice up your mix with a host of professional real-time audio effects, available via three FX control panes for different mixing styles: an easy to use one-touch panel for instant FX, a more advanced custom pane, and a highly innovative 2D touch interface.

Audio FX include: Flanger, Phaser, Echo, Gate, Bit Crusher, Filter (High Pass, Low Pass), as well as six preconfigured instant effects: Absorb, Drift, Sway, Crush, Punch, Twist.

Beat-Matched Looping & Cue Points

Beat-Matched Looping & Cue Points

djay offers you a range of different looping styles: Auto, Manual and Bounce. Manually set loop in and out points, use Auto-Loop to continuously loop part of a song, or remix live using Bounce-Loop to mash up your song, all in perfect sync with the beat.

Leverage the Power of iOS

iCloud Integration

iCloud Integration Cue points and other metadata generated while using djay on your iPhone are automatically synced over-the-air to be readily available when performing live with your iPad (and vice-versa).

Broadcast your mix

Broadcast your mix via AirPlay djay takes full advantage of Apple's AirPlay technology. Stream your mix wirelessly to Apple TV, AirPort Express station, or any AirPlay-supported speaker dock, AV receiver, and stereo system.

World-class sound

World-class sound Building on the iPad's superior audio system, djay offers pristine sound quality and ultra-low latency, with support for popular audio formats like MP3 and AAC.

Audio Copy & Paste

Load your favorite sounds created in other music apps onto djay’s turntables, giving you new creative possibilities to enhance your mixes.

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Fully Optimized for iPad 2 and better

By taking full advantage of the iPad 2’s high-performance dual-core processor, djay for iPad offers desktop-class features like supreme quality Time-Stretching (Key Lock) and even higher precision audio analysis.

Pre-Cueing with Headphones

Preview and prepare the next song through headphones: By enabling djay's Split Output mode you can cue songs through headphones independently from the mix that goes through the main speakers for live DJing.

All you need is the Griffin DJ Cable, designed exclusively for djay. The master output will be sent to the left channel and the cue output to the right channel (which is always the opposite turntable to the one audible through the master channel). You will get a binaural signal for master and pre-cueing, so you will hear sound on both speakers connected to the master channel and in both ears of the headphones connected to the pre-cueing channel.

For more control and output options, djay additionally supports multi-route audio on iOS 6.

Learn more about the Griffin DJ Cable

Pre-cueing with headphones

External Hardware Control

A number of hardware controllers were designed to seamlessly work with djay and are the perfect companions to enhance your DJ sets. Control djay on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch using touch-sensitive performance platters and hardware controls for crossfading, EQ, and effects.

Learn more about DJ hardware controllers

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Tech Specs

User Interface

  • Dual turntable multi-touch DJ interface
  • Audio waveforms display
    (overview and detail)
  • Visual Cue Points
  • Customizable vinyl appearance
  • Double-tap slider reset
  • Manual fader cut
  • Level meter swipe for gain adjustments

Music Library

  • Direct music library access
  • Popover and optional full-screen view
  • Album cover display
  • Browse by playlist, song, artist, album, genre, BPM, and time
  • As-you-type instant library searching
  • Support for major audio formats like MP3, AAC, WAV, AIFF

Audio

  • Automatic Beat & Tempo Detection
  • BPM-Sync
  • Beat-Synchronized Scrubbing
  • Scratching
  • Tempo control (up to +-75% with customizable range and fine adjust)
  • Key Lock/Time-Stretching (requires iPad 2)
  • Pitch-Bend
  • 3-band equalizer (-24 dB to +6 dB)
  • Audio FX: Flanger, Phaser, Echo, Gate, Bit Crusher, Filter (High Pass, Low Pass)
  • Turntable Power-Off FX
  • Auto-Cut Scratching
  • Automatic Transitions: Fade, Backspin, Brake, Reverse, Random
  • Auto Looping (with on-the-fly half/double)
  • Manual Looping (in, out, reloop)
  • Bounce Looping (1/16 to 2 beats)
  • Multiple Cue Points
  • Ultra-low latency
  • Support for multi-route audio on iOS 6

General

  • Automix mode with automatic transition control
  • Pre-Cueing through headphones via the Griffin DJ Cable
  • Recording (compressed AIFF files, with built-in organizer, preview player, and export to Mac/PC via iTunes file sharing)
  • AirPlay integration (broadcast to Apple TV, AirPort Express station, or any AirPlay-supported speaker dock, AV receiver, and stereo system)
  • iCloud integration
  • Audio Copy & Paste
  • Auto-Saving (cue points, beat-grids, BPM, wave data)
  • Fully optimized for multi-tasking and background audio
  • Support for DJ hardware controllers

Uses InAppSettingsKit by Luc Vandal and Ortwin Gentz, and [aufTAKT] V3 (tempo tracking), S.R.C. V1 (sample rate conversion), fx::pack V1 (audio effects bundle), and élastique efficient V2 by zplane.development.