If you’ve long held the dream of rocking a crowd from a pair of decks but haven’t been able to muster the scratch for the gear to hone your craft, you should check out djay for iPad. For just $20, djay can turn Apple’s tablet into a fairly robust DJ setup. The user interface is laid out like an actual DJ system, with two turn tables and a mixer. There are a ton of mixing options, like automatic beat and tempo detection, as well as visual mixing with audio waveforms. But let’s be honest: You’re not here for the mixer; you came here to scratch.
With djay, you can mix in any track from your iPad music library. An auto-cut scratching feature enables you to hit the ground spinning without ruining anyone’s night. And when your hands get tired from dropping phat beats, you can switch to Automix mode, and djay will keep the party going by spinning through your iPad music collection automagically. Djay might not teach you every trick on the scene, but it could set you on the right track. And hey, if the iPad is a good enough platform for the Gorillaz to produce an album on, it’s probably good enough for you to figure out what’s what.
