Automatic detection and connection with the DMX software.Compatible with any DMX software that implements OS2L.Make your light move to the music, activate scenes, turn on strobe, fog and lots more. VirtualDJ 2018 is now natively compatible with the open OS2L protocol, allowing you to control your DMX software, from within VirtualDJ and from your DJ controller.
This one is pretty great for more advanced users who have their own outboard lighting rigs or are working with larger stage-style setups: Videoskins, shaders, camera overlays, and realtime screen grabs all work – because they’re already a part of VDJ’s video mixing functionality. You can write and automate scratches and experiment to discover new sounds – it’s a very strange new world for….automated turntablism? Social Platform Video/Audio Streaming Stream right to Facebook, Twitch, Periscope, YouTube…įorget streaming via OBS, what if you could just send your DJ software’s video output DIRECTLY to a social streaming platform? In another industry first, VirtualDJ 2018 lets DJs stream video straight to Twitch, YouTube, Periscope, and Facebook, all just by activating it within the preferences of the software.
They’ve included a number of easily triggered automated scratches, but also created a code for expressing those scratches, calling it ScratchDNA. Remember how Serato DJ incorporated scratch playback at the touch of a button on the DDJ-SB3? VirtualDJ 2018 has taken things one step further. Posted by DJ TechTools on Friday, JScratch DNA One of them is the ability to use WebGL shaders from Shadertoy as video visualizers – here’s a closer look:
In the new beta update of Virtual DJ 2018 there are tons of new features. Virtual DJ 2018 Beta: WebGL Shaders as Visualizers? Here’s my video overview with a look at some of the shaders and how they work: They act as visualizers, and you can grab almost any shader from Shadertoy and drop it right into the software. Atomix Productions seems to love opening up whole new worlds to their users, and here, they’ve allowed DJs to add WebGL shaders to the video output module. With the new videoskins that come built in, it shows your audience song titles, popups for loops, effects, filters, and more, all on the video output.Īs with many VirtualDJ graphical features, this is also open to the community as well – so anyone can design their own videoskin and upload it to the community portal for others to use. One of the goals is to give the audience a bit more of an insight into the actual mixing work that DJs are doing. There’s a major emphasis on video output in this VDJ update. Not just hardware compatibility and stability additions – the feature set in this new update is serious: Videoskins Videoskins – effectively, video overlays of track information and mixing controls So this week, developer Atmoix Productions excitedly rolled out their news about a major 2018 update. Any assumption of Virtual DJ not being one of the more advanced DJ softwares usually feels based on gut feelings about to the software, not true feature assessments. Key sync? You could shift keys to harmonic matches as early as 2010. In-app streaming libraries? VDJ had it 5+ years ago. In reality, we’ve seen time and again that VDJ is unafraid to champion features well before any other platform. It’s far too easy to think of VDJ as the software that new DJs use when they’re looking for an easy-to-start-with DJ software to learn the basics of mixing.
Want advanced video displays, shadertoy compatibility, scratch automation and coding, direct streaming to Twitch/Facebook/Youtube, and more? It’s all in the new beta of VirtualDJ 2018 – keep reading for details. The team at Atomix Productions has put some unique features in the update, which launched into Public Beta this week. This pattern continues with their latest announcement of a VirtualDJ 2018 update. VirtualDJ is often the proving ground for next level DJ software features, where new ideas come out long before other software developers consider adding anything similar to their software.