

Now here’s where the fun begins – you can swap out the narrow vertical windows on either side of the waveform display (called utility panels), so let’s say you want the left window to show Hot Cues you can change it to that. You’ve got a play button and a “Master / Sync” toggle, too. The deck displays start out as very basic: You’ve got the waveform in the middle, tempo fader on the right, and loop controls on the left. The decks portion will be the main draw for many DJs, so let’s start with that.

Decks The decks here are highly configurable, and you can customise how much (or how little) controls you see onscreen.
#DECKADANCE V2 DVS PRO#
The main interface of Deckadance 2.5 looks like a cross between Traktor Pro 2 and Virtual DJ 8 – you’ve got two decks on the upper half of the screen (extendable to four), a section in the middle that can be swapped (mixer, effects, sampler, scratch mode / vertical waveforms, VST plugins, and Grossbeat mode), and a Browser section for the lower half. I hooked up my Hercules Universal DJ (one of the newer supported controllers), and got to work. I downloaded the Deckadance DVS installer from its website – it comes as a fully-working version of the software with a six second “mute” that kicks in once in a while until you’ve registered it.Īt the time of this writing there are only a handful of controllers that come natively mapped to it, but with Stanton breathing new life to it that could change in the near future. There are two versions of Deckadance – Standard and DVS which lets you use it with third-party timecode CDs and vinyl like Mixvibes, Torq, Ms Pinky, and Serato Scratch Live. In this review we take a look at Deckadance 2.5, which is the first Deckadance version to be released after it was acquired by Stanton DJ from Image-Line. It brought innovations like hosting third-party VST plugins (EQs, compressors) as well as the ability to be inserted as a plugin itself in another DAW.
#DECKADANCE V2 DVS FULL#
Full Deckadance 2.5 Reviewĭeckadance is one of those DJ apps that’s been around for a while – it started almost 10 years ago under developer Image-Line, maker of the popular Fruity Loops / FL Studio digital audio workstation. First Impressions / Setting up In this review we take a look at Deckadance 2.5, the first version of the long-running DJ software that’s now under the Stanton DJ brand.
