Deckadance is a very good application to mix music as a professional DJ that can run as standalone or as VSTi plugin.
You can control Deckadance with the mouse, keyboard, midi controller, vinyl board or CD system. No matter your choice, the precission and accuracy of the program will surprise you.
The interface of the program is not suitable for novices as it's thought to be used by DJs or people who want to go further in the DJ experience.
Deckadance is the perfect application for your DJ sessions, although to get the most out of this excellent program you'll have to get used to it.
NotesYou can control Deckadance with the mouse, keyboard, midi controller, vinyl board or CD system. No matter your choice, the precission and accuracy of the program will surprise you.
The interface of the program is not suitable for novices as it's thought to be used by DJs or people who want to go further in the DJ experience.
Deckadance is the perfect application for your DJ sessions, although to get the most out of this excellent program you'll have to get used to it.
The number of effects is very huge as you can check in theofficial site.
Aug 02, 2013 Deckadance 2 introduced class leading performance features like the integrated Gross Beat editor. The 2.2 update adds even more flexibility with MIDI Scripting. Create and share MIDI controller. Deckadance 2.2 added MIDI scripting so you, developers and the community can now create MIDI controller scripts to control Deckadance 2 for any MIDI controller including controller feedback, where applicable. We have listed some demo videos below running controllers from the new MIDI scripts. Deckadance 2 can run VST compliant effects and/or softsynths for producing unique mind blowing musical performances and can also be controlled with MIDI controllers, timecoded vinyl and CD systems. Deckadance 2 provides all the necessary tools and features you need to standout above all others! Notable and New Features.
RestrictionsTrial version inserts 5 seconds of silence each 3 minutes of music.
Deckadance 2 Midi Skirt
I've never been a fan of Deckadance becasue it only provided support for very basic custom MIDI controller mappings, and no LED feedback. This is the main reason I am a devoted Traktor user. However, I have just checked the latest version and learnt that, since v2.2 was (released on 29 July 2013), Deckadance is equipped with proper bi-directional MIDI comms and full-blown MIDI scripting capabilities. I am not talking about crappy mouse-driven scripting like in Traktor, I am talking about scripts that can be edited by humans in any plain-text editor, organized logically into separate files, merged, split and shared with other users without being constrained to a monstrous, monolithic, encrypted TSI file that can only be clumsily edited in Traktor's mapping editor.
I have always had great mapping ideas but I am never in the mood to implement them in Traktor because it's just too hard to do anything mildly sophisticated. With Deckadance DeckaScripting it's very easy to achieve sophisticated mappings, especially controller banks or pages. An unlimited number of variables may be defined and named meaningfully (as opposed to Traktor's skimpy M1-M8 'modifiers'). Heck, it can even handle SysEx messages to initialize my Launchpad and my BCR2000!
Deckadance also supports third-party VST plugins
I am in the process of comparing Traktor and Deckadance, and so far I am seeing a lot of overlap, which is good because I might switch.