Not that long ago, Mixvibes added support for an external MIDI controller to the Android version of Cross DJ, with the promise that more supported hardware on the way. Well, Mixvibes delivers! Cross DJ for Android now officially works with both the Pioneer DDJ-SB and DDJ-WeGO2, along with the already-supported Mixvibes U-Mix Control.
Dec 14, 2012 Watch this video to learn how to set up your MIDI controller and map MIDI controls in Mixvibes Cross DJ 2. Watch this video to learn how to set up your MIDI controller and map MIDI controls in. WeDJ and Cross DJ only allow DJs to use a very limited list of controllers. This is often because of commercial settlements, or because the same.
Here’s the press release for your perusal…
Paris, France – November 11, 2014 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Mixvibes announces Cross DJ Pro for Android with Pioneer DDJ-SB & Pioneer DDJ-WeGO2 support Mixvibes enlarges the range of Cross DJ Pro compatible hardware for Android by adding 2 new controllers: Pioneer DDJ-SB & DDJ-WeGO2. After taking a first step in the Android MIDI control with the U-Mix Control Pro, Mixvibes takes another step forward.
What you need for MIDI control
- Pioneer DDJ-SB, Pioneer DDJ-WeGO2 or Mixvibes U-Mix Control
- 1 OTG cable
- 1 powered USB hub
- 1 Android device with Cross DJ Pro for Android
How to connect
Mixvibes Cross Midi Controller Download
Go through thoses 3 simple steps:
- Power the controller by plugging it in the USB hub
- Connect Android device to the USB hub using the OTG cable
- Go to Advanced settings and hit Connect
Watch tutorial videos:
Pioneer DDJ-SB: http://youtu.be/XRAao2CFfQc – Pioneer DDJ-WeGO2: http://youtu.be/KRP_Cy3jQM4
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Mapped features
Combine the control possibilities of hardware with the flexibility of touch screen thanks to a smart mapping of all controls: scratch, EQs, sampler, hot-cues, loops, pitch bend, browse and load tracks, effects & more.
Pricing and availability
The paid version of Cross DJ becomes Cross DJ Pro, and is available at 8,99€ / $9,99 / £6,99 Update is free for all current users. MIDI control is available only in Cross DJ Pro
Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mixvibes.crossdjapp
Amazon Store: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KKMA49K
Main Features
- Accurate BPM detection of your music, down to the last decimal.
- Stable Sync: one-press, and the 2 tracks never go out of phase.
- Split Mono: Pre-listen your music tracks before mixing them.
- Customizable, manual pitch range (4, 8, 16, 32, 100%) + progressive & manual pitch bend.
- Accurate Beat-grid editing: make any track sync properly.
- Quantize feature: hot cues and loops are automatically set on the beat.
- Smart-seek: Tap on the waveform to fast-forward & get a seamless jump.
- Automix: let Cross DJ mix your tracks and play music automatically, from any sources.
- External mixer: control EQs and crossfader with hardware mixers.
- Low latency: music reacts instantly to your actions.
- Extremely realistic scratch sound as on real turntables.
- 15 effects (Bi-filter, Low-pass, Hi-Pass, Delay, Echo, Phaser, Flanger, Cut, Roll, etc.)
- Keylock mode: change BPM without affecting the tone.
- Key detection: detect the key of the songs and know which tracks sound good together.
- No load time when starting-up the app.
- Autogain: automatically equalizes the levels of 2 tracks.
- 2 turntables, full-fledged 3-band EQ mixer – with DJM EQ preset.
- Sampler: 14 sample banks + record your own samples + quantized loops
- Mix Soundcloud: Explore, play and mix all SoundCloud.
- New Waveform view: scratch & see the music + set cue accurately.
- New Separate tabs: swipe to display different panels on each side.
- Crossfader with 3 modes: cut, autofade, normal.
- Compatible with MP3s, AAC, FLAC and more.
- Multiple sorting options: sort your library by title, artist, album, BPM or length.
- Navigation by folder.
- Large control pads: XY effect pad, 16 hot-cues pads.
- HQ live recording of your mixes. Optimized for mobile & tablet.
- Midi mapping: Mixvibes U-Mix Control, Pioneer DDJ-SB, Pioneer DDJ-WeGO2
- Minimum configuration required Android 4.1 4″ screen, RAM 1GB, Dual-core processor
About Mixvibes
Mixvibes has been developing DJ apps for Mac/PC, iOS & Android for more than 10 years.
Neither the DDJ-SB nor the WeGO2 are anywhere near top tier of Pioneer’s DJ controller range, but they aren’t anything to be sniffed at either, and would certainly rock a party, no problems. You’ll still have to plug into the headphone cable on your mobile device, so the audio interface on the controllers will unfortunately remain unused when connected to Android.
This is still baby steps in the right direction though, and we can hope that more controllers will be brought into the fold. So what do we want to see next on the app? Personally, I’ve asked Mixvibes for a small but useful feature… the ability to set a default music folder. As it stands, every time you exit the app, it doesn’t remember where you last were in the folder browser. Being able to set a specific folder to show when browsing would be really useful!
What do you think is missing from Cross DJ? What controllers do you want to see supported?
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- Still building my set-up, starting with Cross DJ 2.5 software. Been told that a laptop is more desirable with a more solid OS than an iPad set-up. (thanks Terry)
I’m practicing my mixes by mouse on a whopping 24″ iMac, so need to move to using a controller.
What’s better the Vestax Spin 2 or the U-Mix Control Pro 2. (I recall Phil’s revue saying the latter is limited to how many bars you can loop) Any suggestions for other controllers would also be greatly appreciated!
Cheers,
JamesCross aims to be the most open DJ Software platform, which means they have a policy of trying to support as many controllers as possible. Me being a DENON afficionado I would definitely say have a look at MC3000 and even MC2000 which are natively supported in Cross DJ.I think MixVibes have an impressive list of supported controllers in my opinion (with the noticeable and regretable omission of the Terminal Mix 4 I must say), so the choice for your chosen software is pretty broad.Search the forum for some of the earlier posts on “check lists” for what features you could want in a controller. First find out what you want to have, feature-wise, then make a shortlist, then try seeing/feeling your shortlist controllers live in a store or at a friends place. Then make your final choice.That way you know that the final 2-3 controllers you are looking at have at least gotten all of (or close to all of) the features you want. Then it’s a question of personal taste, looks, feel of knobs, faders, jogwheel and probably availability and budget.So, start with the features you feel you want/need. Don’t start by setting a number of controllers in line and start picking.Greetinx,
C.Some report that the DDJ-SX is really good in Cross.Chuck van Eekelen, post: 44443, member: 2756 wrote:
I think MixVibes have an impressive list of supported controllers in my opinion (with the noticeable and regretable omission of the Terminal Mix 4 I must say), so the choice for your chosen software is pretty broad.I’m just waiting for this to Cross over.Yeah the mixtrack pro II should work out of the box, at least due to mixvibes website.Sorry the spin is one of the few controllers I am not familiar with.HID is actually a protocol that has more to do with USB than with MIDI. It is called Human Interface Device Protocol.
Now the problem with MIDI is 2 things that influence especially things that need to happen either very fast (scratching, jog movement, finger drumming…) as MIDI has some degree of latency that cannot be overcome or things that need high resolutions (again jogs) as MIDI is limited in how granular it can be.Now to overcome these shortcomings and since we use USB anyways to hook things up programmers can use HID directly. Since HID is a much more modern protocol (actually invented with USB) it has far less latency (things will feel more tight) and can have nearly endless resolution on predefined things (jogs).
However there is also a problem with this. MIDI is predefined and easy to remap, since it is made for music, has predefined channels and parameters to work with. This is why there is “midi mapping”.
HID has not been developed for music and only gives very basic things (hence its great performance), but each manufacturer uses different things and ways to program their HID stuff. So the HID things on your controller have to be supported natively by the software and cannot be re-mapped in most cases.I never had a problem with pad triggering, but it bothers some people.
On the other hand I had serious problems with scratching and can only really scratch when latency is really low and jogs are tight. Hence I use the Terminal Mix with Serato.all the controllers on this page http://www.mixvibes.com/compatible-controllers are supported by Mixvibes CrossDJ, Witch means no need to do any midi mapping (programing).
For the most part all controllers are mapped in a way that they do what is labeled on the controller so if a button says loop or play on the controller that what it will be mapped to in Cross.
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