Not that long ago, Mixvibes added support for an external MIDI controller to the Android version of Cross DJ, with the promise that more supported hardware on the way. Well, Mixvibes delivers! Cross DJ for Android now officially works with both the Pioneer DDJ-SB and DDJ-WeGO2, along with the already-supported Mixvibes U-Mix Control.
Here’s the press release for your perusal…
Paris, France – November 11, 2014 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Mixvibes announces Cross DJ Pro for Android with Pioneer DDJ-SB & Pioneer DDJ-WeGO2 support Mixvibes enlarges the range of Cross DJ Pro compatible hardware for Android by adding 2 new controllers: Pioneer DDJ-SB & DDJ-WeGO2. After taking a first step in the Android MIDI control with the U-Mix Control Pro, Mixvibes takes another step forward.
What you need for MIDI control
- Pioneer DDJ-SB, Pioneer DDJ-WeGO2 or Mixvibes U-Mix Control
- 1 OTG cable
- 1 powered USB hub
- 1 Android device with Cross DJ Pro for Android
How to connect
Go through thoses 3 simple steps:
- Power the controller by plugging it in the USB hub
- Connect Android device to the USB hub using the OTG cable
- Go to Advanced settings and hit Connect
Watch tutorial videos:
Pioneer DDJ-SB: http://youtu.be/XRAao2CFfQc – Pioneer DDJ-WeGO2: http://youtu.be/KRP_Cy3jQM4
Mapped features
Combine the control possibilities of hardware with the flexibility of touch screen thanks to a smart mapping of all controls: scratch, EQs, sampler, hot-cues, loops, pitch bend, browse and load tracks, effects & more.
Pricing and availability
The paid version of Cross DJ becomes Cross DJ Pro, and is available at 8,99€ / $9,99 / £6,99 Update is free for all current users. MIDI control is available only in Cross DJ Pro
Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mixvibes.crossdjapp
Amazon Store: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KKMA49K
Main Features
- Accurate BPM detection of your music, down to the last decimal.
- Stable Sync: one-press, and the 2 tracks never go out of phase.
- Split Mono: Pre-listen your music tracks before mixing them.
- Customizable, manual pitch range (4, 8, 16, 32, 100%) + progressive & manual pitch bend.
- Accurate Beat-grid editing: make any track sync properly.
- Quantize feature: hot cues and loops are automatically set on the beat.
- Smart-seek: Tap on the waveform to fast-forward & get a seamless jump.
- Automix: let Cross DJ mix your tracks and play music automatically, from any sources.
- External mixer: control EQs and crossfader with hardware mixers.
- Low latency: music reacts instantly to your actions.
- Extremely realistic scratch sound as on real turntables.
- 15 effects (Bi-filter, Low-pass, Hi-Pass, Delay, Echo, Phaser, Flanger, Cut, Roll, etc.)
- Keylock mode: change BPM without affecting the tone.
- Key detection: detect the key of the songs and know which tracks sound good together.
- No load time when starting-up the app.
- Autogain: automatically equalizes the levels of 2 tracks.
- 2 turntables, full-fledged 3-band EQ mixer – with DJM EQ preset.
- Sampler: 14 sample banks + record your own samples + quantized loops
- Mix Soundcloud: Explore, play and mix all SoundCloud.
- New Waveform view: scratch & see the music + set cue accurately.
- New Separate tabs: swipe to display different panels on each side.
- Crossfader with 3 modes: cut, autofade, normal.
- Compatible with MP3s, AAC, FLAC and more.
- Multiple sorting options: sort your library by title, artist, album, BPM or length.
- Navigation by folder.
- Large control pads: XY effect pad, 16 hot-cues pads.
- HQ live recording of your mixes. Optimized for mobile & tablet.
- Midi mapping: Mixvibes U-Mix Control, Pioneer DDJ-SB, Pioneer DDJ-WeGO2
- Minimum configuration required Android 4.1 4″ screen, RAM 1GB, Dual-core processor
About Mixvibes
Mixvibes has been developing DJ apps for Mac/PC, iOS & Android for more than 10 years.
My (quick) take
Neither the DDJ-SB nor the WeGO2 are anywhere near top tier of Pioneer’s DJ controller range, but they aren’t anything to be sniffed at either, and would certainly rock a party, no problems. You’ll still have to plug into the headphone cable on your mobile device, so the audio interface on the controllers will unfortunately remain unused when connected to Android.
This is still baby steps in the right direction though, and we can hope that more controllers will be brought into the fold. So what do we want to see next on the app? Personally, I’ve asked Mixvibes for a small but useful feature… the ability to set a default music folder. As it stands, every time you exit the app, it doesn’t remember where you last were in the folder browser. Being able to set a specific folder to show when browsing would be really useful!
What do you think is missing from Cross DJ? What controllers do you want to see supported?
For purely selfish reasons (ie I own one) I’d like to see the VMS4.1 supported. As it is capable of dealing with analogue line in and MIDI at the same time, it could potentially work well with an Android device that so far only supports headphone out. Totally with you on the default music folder thing too.
Awesome!
I don’t have any of those controllers but I’d love to check it out!
Good times. A Novation Twitch would rock it for me. Support for USB audio in Samsung devices too. Maybe work with the low latency Pro-audio SDK from them? Tie up with Samsung as their only DJ partner? It’s not like there isn’t a few in pockets at the moment.
I have Cross and Djay for Android and honestly prefer Cross. Djay looks more ‘eye candy’ but find Cross easier to use with the headphone out splitting.
Yeah, the Twitch is still an awesome controller. I’m not sure how well it would perform with a tablet or smart phone, but it’s be nice to see Novation try.
The integration looks tight, however the video was to short. :-(
Geez, why can’t they get the Android to use the onboard sound cards? This seems like such a basic thing and yet it’s still not available. My iPhone has had this ability for several years now.
So I would still need a spliter plug into the mobile headphone socket to cue n route audio to speakers??? :/ I would have been sold if it was all integrated like on iOS devices.
That’s down to Android. But with Android L coming online soon, low latency and multi-channel audio will be the norm. Then hopefully we’ll be able to cover iOS and Android equally.
… on a few Nexus devices only, with latencies still above iOS. Norm?
And much higher chance for dropouts thanks to conservative thread scheduling.
Yeah, I guess they wanted to be first to market with non-apple products. The problem is, the platform (not the software, the hardware) isn’t ready. Blame non-apple mobile hardware device manufacturers.
Been playing with it using my pioneer ddj-sb, yeah I wish it was all integrated with the controller, but anyway this is just the beginning … About the headphone cues I’ve never tried it yet, but only 1 thing I don’t like is whenver I start recording then I hit the play pad on my controller, the app crashes… BUT, if you tap the play icon on you’re tab, it will work just fine. Am using a nexus 7 first gen anyway.
I like cross dj on my tablet and i wanna use my ddj-sr with it too… please
I just bought a Pioneer Wego (not Wego2) hoping it would be compatible with my iPhone Cross DJ Free app. I would be willing to buy any other version available for my iPhone if it was compatible with my Pioneer Wego. Is there a version of Cross DJ for iPhone compatible with the original Wego?
I got the Wego because it was listed here: “http://www.mixvibes.com/compatible-controllers” as compatible with MixVibes. It is going to be a big bummer if I paid extra for a controller that is not even compatible with the app I wanted to use. Maybe I can return it back to amazon? I’ve only had it open for a day.
I like cross dj pro on android but no support for herculus dj control instinct p 8 . Possible to add this controller? Please.
Ion discover dj not supported I will like to see it in there also.