djDecks is the ultimate tool for computer mixing and dj-ing. djDecks is a computer mixing program for both beginning and professional dj's. Mix your mp3, ogg, wma and wav files easily on any configuration.

Extended information

djDecks exists of two decks on which you can play your mp3, wav or ogg files, a center mixer panel and a song browser.
If necessary, a third player is available, but is not shown by default.
Each player has a volume and speed control, as well as an effects panel.
The mixer (the center window) connects the two decks with a cross-fader with four different slide curves and an automatic slide with configurable speed.
On this main window some other information can be displayed as well such as master VU, count-down to next event in each song, spectrum analyser, selected slide curve.

Once you have set the bpm (beats per minute) for your songs, it's easy to synchronize beats and get started mixing.
Selecting songs is also very easy with the filebrowser/playlist that reads ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags and presents the songs in the format you want.
All information for each song is saved using ID3v2 tags, which means all information you need for the song is stored. (BPM, title, artist, length, cuepoints, etc

You get up to three decks to load your songs in.
Each deck has a pitch and volume controls, a stereo VU-meter, you can see position, cue and song information.
You can pre-listen the song using headphones through the rear-out of your 3d-soundcard, with a second sound card or by splitting left and right channels.
djDecks has a very advanced bpm detection that will help you synchronizing your songs.
It's very easy to set a cue-point and start your song exactly when you want it at the position you want.

djDecks offers a high-quality three-band equalizer per player, as well as other effects such as echo, looping, flanger and gapper.
The equalizer's frequencies can be changed on the fly to create sweeping cut-off effects.
To select your songs you can use the playlist and file browser. It loads all the id3 tags and shows the songs found based on id3 tags so you get the information displayed the way you want it, instead of based on how the file is named.

Technical specifications

Play mp3, wma, ogg and wav files in up to 3 decks
Change pitch with 4 different ranges from +/-8% to +/-100%
Change volume, play and pause (instant-start) with a low 23 ms latency (or up to 2ms with ASIO)
Edit ID3v2 tags for mp3's and the ogg vorbis tag for ogg files
Tap BPM or automatically detect BPM
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

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
Automatic 0dB limiter to prevent clipping

Mixer
Crossfader with 4 different fade-presets
Spectrum Analyzer, stereo VU meter
3 equalizer-band crossfaders
Limiter to prevent clipping
Output samplerate up to 48kHz

External Hardware Supported
External analog mixer supported
DMC1 and DAC2 mp3 controllers supported (beta)
Hercules DJ Console

Other
Record your mix in mp3, wave or ogg format
Charts generated based on the songs you played

Playlist/Music Browser
Easily navigate through your music directories
Shows all songs based on id3v1, id3v2 and ogg tag information (title, bpm, length, ...)
Save playlist in winamp playlist format, or to html
Open winamp playlists
Drag&Drop songs from windows explorer
Shows .cue + .mp3 files (as extracted with EAC for example) as directory

Requirements

Minimum
300 Mhz pc (intel, amd, ...)
128MB RAM
7MB of free hard disk space to install djDecks
DirectX-compatible sound card
Windows 98, Me, 2000 or XP

Recommended
700 Mhz pc (intel, amd, ...)
256MB RAM (512 MB for ASIO)
Sound card with 2 outputs (4-speaker mode: front out and rear out or ASIO mode)
OR 2 sound cards
Windows 2000 or XP

Soundcards
You would need a soundcard with ASIO support, and at least 2 inputs and 2 outputs.

Internal
SoundBlaster Live! Platinum with kxDrivers (with external box)
SoundBlaster Audigy (1 or 2) Platinum (Pro) (with external box)
Terratec DMX 6Fire 24/96 (with external box)
Audiotrak Maya44 MKII (2 stereo in, 2 stereo out on card)

External
M-Audio Quattro USB (2 stereo in, 2 stereo out)
Audiotrak Maya 44 USB (2 stereo in, 2 stereo out)

Phono Pre-Amplifiers
Since most soundcards don't have a phono input, the signal from your turntables will have to be pre-amplified. You don't need this if you have turntables with a line-out.