A little over 2 months ago, news arrived of Mixvibes Cross DJ 4 being a thing, a very long awaited thing too. And in that time, they’ve been listening to user feedback to hone the beta into the full point release. And now it’s here. Cross DJ 4 is ready for download, with upgrade path discounts for existing users too.
The full press release on the Mixvibes Cross DJ 4:
The upgraded DJ experience.
After a successful pre-order campaign and positive initial reception from the DJ and music press, Mixvibes is officially launching Cross DJ 4, the long-awaited upgrade to its flagship software Cross DJ. Cross DJ 4 is the result of several months of hard work from our team to push it further than any version before.
The pre-order period allowed users and pros alike to get acquainted with the new features and feel of Cross DJ 4. Now, after taking the feedback into account and polishing the software, we are releasing the finalized version, ready for mixing and playing right now!
The redesigned 4 players waveform and the improved Synced FX will offer you infinite possibilities of creation. Make better analysis of your performance with the cover view collection, upgraded, for a smoother browsing of your tracks. Finally, we have also partnered with SoundCloud Go to bring you the best streaming experience possible! Thanks to all of this, Cross DJ will become your new favorite DJ software.
Mixvibes Cross DJ 4 is available now at $69.90 // Cross Dj Pro 4 is available now at $149.90 Cross DJ 3 users can upgrade to Cross DJ 4 for the special price of $39.90
Cross 3 users can upgrade to Cross DJ Pro 4 for the special price of $69.90
RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS
New simple & intuitive UI
- Cover view collection
- Parallel Waveform for the 4 players
- Suitable for touchscreen
- UI customizable with a new script technology named Maquillage
Feature improvements
- 3 audio effects synchronized per player
- Mix Music from SoundCloud
- Autoplay improvements with many powerful transitions
- New analyse to get the intro, outro & the best track parts
- Master clock & Ableton Link
- Attach any midi controller with the midi learning
- New remote app for iOS & Android
- Mix video files and use video Sampler (Profeature)
- Create your own effect with the Tweaker (Profeature)
- DVS control & HID mode (Profeature)
- VST plugin (available soon) (Profeature)
Collection improvements
- Track match & track playlist panes
- Import / Export from most DJ softwares : Rekordbox, Serato DJ, Traktor, Virtual DJ
- Export an universal usb drive
IGNORE AT YOUR PERIL
Back in the early days of Mixvibes, their offer spiralled out of control. Instead of doing a few things really well, it tried to do literally everything, and did so at the expense of reliability. Frankly, it was a mess, and I told them this many times over.
And then the slate was wiped clean. They regrouped and rebuilt, proferring Cross as their new product, one that started doing just a few things really well, and has continued to add features, and only doing so when they’re also being done well too.
And Cross DJ 4 looks to do a few things that others don’t. At this point, it’s hard for me to make any kind of judgement as I haven’t the time to play with it in any detail right now. But I do want to, which is a testament to my first impressions. Perhaps it’s nostalgia, but having seen this grow from nothing into most definitely something, I’m rooting for it to succeed.
The problem they have is lack of presence. When you look at the marketing budgets of their competitors, it’s easy to see how they might get lost in the noise created by others. But for me, this is the area that they need to focus on for a good while, and drop some serious money into.
People need to be made aware of Cross DJ and what it does. They need to make comparisons with the established big boys and show that their features set is often as good and often eclipses their peers. The Mixvibes Youtube account should be overflowing with tutorial videos for Cross DJ 4, but it is not.
But this takes money, and if they wish for Cross DJ to have a sustained future, it’s all about telling – nay shouting out loud about Cross DJ 4. The adage of “if you build it they will come” is a nice motivational message in a brush font on a poster, but if they don’t know that you’ve built it or what it does, then they’re not going to come at all. And I urge Mixvibes to have a 30 day demo version always available too.
GALLERY
I wish they made it clear that “Import / Export from most DJ softwares” in Serato’s case means only importing your crates, no cue points, loops or anything else. Mixvibes exports nothing to other software, you can only sync tracklists with Rekordbox to use with CDJ’s. That’s about it.
I don’t know about serato but for Traktor, Mixvibes exports all data. I mean cue, loops, everything.you only have to analyse tracks with traktor.
“I urge Mixvibes to have a 30 day demo version always available too.”
They always do: http://www.mixvibes.com/free-downloads/
“With the 2/4 deck view option, if you select the 2 deck view, you aren’t able to toggle between A/B/C/D. You are stuck with only decks A&B. This is the same as it was with the older version too. ”
Version 4 now has A/C and B/D switches on the top of each deck, which was not in Cross 3.
“Version 4 now has A/C and B/D switches on the top of each deck, which was not in Cross 3.”
I can’t believe I didn’t see that!! Thanks for pointing it out.
After what I thought was an abandoned platform, I was really excited for this new version. I tried out the demo & sadly I’m rather disappointed. It feels like Mixvibes have only updated the UI & FX, but are trying to sell it as a complete new build. Most of the advertised features is what the old version already had before: 1) Soundcloud mixing 2) Midi mapping & HID intergration 3) Mix audio & video ….. In some ways it actually feels like it’s gone backwards. The overall response of the UI feels a bit laggy. The layout of the mixer feels very unintuitive & for some reason the cover browser didn’t show any of my album art – just a generic mixvibes logo. After analysing a couple of tracks, the “auto” cue points were placed in extremely unusual places, like 3 beats from the start, a bar or two from the break etc… I feel the dynamic intro/break/outro analyse feature isn’t quite ready yet. The midi mapping section is identical to the older version, nothing additional has been added at all. There’s still no proper way to map led output. Also still no documentation on mapping either. My MCX8000 actually had a locked, but empty (totally useless) mapping in the midi section. With the 2/4 deck view option, if you select the 2 deck view, you aren’t able to toggle between A/B/C/D. You are stuck with only decks A&B. This is the same as it was with the older version too. Most people will select 2 deck view, not because they only want to use decks 1&2, but because of screen constraints. If I wanna mix between decks 1&4 or 2&3 let me see it that way. I’m glad to see Cross getting an update, but the things that have been improved, merely feels like things that should’ve been gradually added to the previous versions with incremental updates over the last 2/3 years anyway. Lastly I can’t understand why they don’t include other software dvs control signals. Expecting people to jump ship from Traktor/Serato & then still have to struggle to get (in my case import) mixvibes dvs vinyl?? I dunno, I hope to see the software improve in leaps & bounds from here on, but for me right now, I just can’t justify dropping $70 on this.
Thanks for sharing. SouldClound is not my first choice of music resource library. As a dj hobbyist, I just want to create some mixtape for self listening. I got a trick of using Spotify with mixvibes. It said the tool is available to personal use. I have tried and it works well. So I guess I will not use SouldCloud ever.