Numerous other visual features are designed to make four or eight-deck mixing as intuitive as possible, with elements fading to the background or coming to the fore depending on what the DJ is doing, and visual “linking” of tracks in compatible key. Piling on the decks makes things more challenging, but Flow 8 Deck is designed to keep everything visually as simple a possible. Also, this software appears to have jumped the gun on implementing Stems, as the developer pack isn’t even out as of the time of writing, so expect improvements when it is. (There’s a video below to show you how it works.) However, just like with Traktor you don’t get a visual representation of each of the four layers within the Stems file in the software. Stems control is achieved by mapping the Stem volumes to the EQs, and this is how the software opens Stems use up to just about any DJ controller that has four knobs of some kind for each of its channels. One of the innovations for beatmixing is the ability to automix within the same tune by jumping from section to section, with Flow 8 Deck smoothly crossfading between the parts you jump from and to. There’s no concept of individual deck tempo other than a master tempo, which means the software is firmly skewed towards electronic music and smooth beatmixes. Now, you can choose between two, four and eight deck layouts, and the software will keep everything in sync automatically. Among other innovations, it’s the first DJ software that lets you play Stems files on practically any DJ controller.įlow was first released nearly two years ago as two-deck DJ software designed to streamline mixed DJ sets, with an emphasis on simplicity and incorporating Mixed In Key’s harmonic mixing as a central element, but the new software builds hugely on the original Flow. Who’d have thought that DJ software would have been one of the big talking points of the BPM Show this weekend? But it most definitely is, and one of the most interesting and original pieces of software news ahead of this year’s show is the release of Flow 8 Deck from Mixed in Key. Flow allows you to DJ, with “normal” music files and with Stems, using practically any modern DJ controller. Using Flow 8 Deck software with a Traktor Kontrol S4.
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