This week has been interesting, and has led to many conversations, not least about the future of the DJ scene. Thoughts turned to DJ software, and how the landscape might play out. And a little research into the small players yielded some very bad news — it would appear that Audio Artery’s One DJ is no longer being developed.
Here’s the splash screen text:
ABOUT ONE DJ DEVELOPMENT
Unfortunately we are forced to cease the further development of One DJ at this point. We also stop sales of the software through our webshop. Hopefully we can continue at some point, but at the moment it has become impossible. Anyone interested in One DJ can contact us at info(at)one.dj.
I reached out to Audio Artery for a little more info, and it seems that the volatile DJ scene means that One DJ cannot compete well enough to generate the revenue to take it further. So while more mothballed than over, the demo version is still available for those curious about the software, but it is no longer for sale.
This is a huge shame for DJing. As the industry continues in the direction of being run by big business putting out very similar and safe sales friendly products, smaller outfits are needed to challenge the status quo, and to develop fresh ideas. One DJ was certainly that product, and worked like nothing else out there. The modular approach was new, and the more timeline led workflow pushed DJing into a different style, one more akin to production and performance that just playing tracks.
So we bid a fond farewell to One DJ, and wish everyone connected with it every success in the future. And as I stressed to them, we at DJWORX will be shifting focus to the smaller and more interesting players in the DJ industry. We feel that these are the ones who will be doing the interesting and challenging work.
Sad to see such innovative software mothballed. It wasn’t without flaws, but the big hitters could learn a lot from the modular design in particular.
They should open source it, actually they should have done that before and try a different business model.
Hope it’s not too late.
Yes, why has nobody gone into Open Source for DJ software?
There is one open source DJ software. It’s called Mixxx (http://www.mixxx.org/).
I was literally thinking the same thing. There are hardware and software inventors that are looking to build on a framework like this. Im one of them. I would love to see an open source modular DJ framework. Tons of ideas.
It was inevitable they closed. I purchased the software and had issues in win7 but they never responded to my emails for support. Also, since xmas they were pitching about a discount since a new version was coming out and to get it before then but now they shut down.
People bitch and moan about new features and differentiation, but don’t support innovative companies doing interesting things.
Yeah, I discovered the message on their site a few days ago.
I only ever used the demo, but it wasn’t a great experience. There were some key things missing IMO and AA seemed pretty…….well let’s say “relaxed” about fixing things, adding features, responding to emails etc.
RPM, FKA Reflex, from Gizmolabs (Jorgen Hedberg of PCDJ Red fame) has gone the same way too.
RPM 2.0 was some next generation stuff. I’m still waiting for Jorgen to leave Apple so he can continue developing the software again.
The One DJ looked nice, but worked horrible on a mac. Was it wrapped in JAVA?
Hey J.J. It’s dgruetter from the old RPM Beta team. I have a question for you. Can I message you offline? You can reach me at dgruetter (at) gmail.com
It’s certainly not an easy industry for smaller businesses to survive in – especially a software business (in my experiences, there are still a lot of people who expect their DJ software to be free, though happily pay if there is hardware involved). It was great to see them doing something a little different and innovative within the DJ software industry.
I tried out the early demo once and it was such a mess in terms of usabilty that I have never opened it again and didn’t go back once. Have to admit, that the features sounded pretty interesting!
the problew was they wanted to run before they learned to walk. shame really. i like their ideas but delivery was atrocious – shame!
aah deeamn!! so bummed to find out this software been abandoned…always to risk taking boundary pushers that seem to fall away…survival is definitely tougher outside of the box!!
was really excited to give this a try, as been on the hunt to see if there is any DJ software that includes tools for inline editing of the track waveform, which out needing to do in a separate program and then export new WAV / AIF file (which is never the same quality as the original master file)
…is there any other DJ warez out there which has this feature built in? .
..or any recommended work arounds… ??
was wondering if made track edits in something like Ableton, then route that edited clip as a track through a deck in Traktor, could that work ??