The big players might hog the headlines these days, but we need to remember that there are other alternatives out there that offer some advantages. We do our best here at DJWORX to cover as much about the alternatives to Pioneer, Native Instruments, Atomix and Serato, even including the open source ones! Easily the company that keeps our inbox busiest with updates is Mixvibes, makers of Cross DJ for Mac/Windows, iOS and Android.
Cross DJ continues it’s march towards a complete desktop DJ software package with the latest version of Cross DJ: 3.3.11. This version brings Windows 10 support, a couple of new controllers to support and some other bits and bobs. You can get into the detail in the press release below.
Paris, France – 13th of August, 2015
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Mixvibes Cross DJ 3.3.11 for Mac/PC: Windows 10 ready, new controllers & improvements.
Windows 10
- PC users rejoice: Cross DJ is now compatible with Windows’ latest OS
- Both 32 and 64-bit version are supported
New supported controllers
- Pioneer XDJ-R1
- Hercules DJControlWave
Better Pioneer CDJ integration
- Pioneer CDJ-2000: the CDJ now displays the current selected track’s artwork.
- Pioneer CDJ-850: no more crash while browsing
- Overall stability of both HID controls has been improved
Workflow and performance improvements
- Track Match now updates based on Master player change: when Track Match is set on Master, it keeps track of Master’s change.
- No need to re analyze tracks after you’ve moved them within the collection.
- Record: the limiter has been fixed so you won’t get saturated recordings any more.
Bug fixes
- Player: fixed color waveform display for tracks having 88200Hz sample rate
- Collection: fixed crash when deleting the current month in the History view
- Collection: fixed SoundCloud tree reload
- Various: fixed possible random crashes on custom analysis + when loading tracks by drag and drop + when unloading an audio/video couple.
Pricing & availability
49€ / $49 for Cross DJ
129€ / $129 for Cross Free update available for Cross DJ & Cross.
Download: http://forum.mixvibes.com, in the Download Center.
About Mixvibes
Mixvibes has been making professional DJ software and apps for 15 years. Downloaded by millions worldwide, its flagship app Cross DJ is now available on Mac/PC, iOS and Android. Mixvibes has also developed Pioneer’s rekordboxTM, the worldwide club standard music management software.
My take
While this release might not scream out some of the sexy features rival software recently had, it’s important in that it not only further cements integration with critical Pioneer club gear, it adds full compatibility with the just released Windows 10 and adds support for a couple more controllers. There’s obviously the usual round of bug squashing as well, to tighten it up.
With all the recent upheaval thanks to Pioneer’s rekordbox announcement, there’s certainly opportunity for other, smaller, DJ software companies to jostle for position. I mentioned in the first paragraph that these smaller companies still offered some advantages. The biggest and most obvious is bang for your buck: for less than the major players, you can get full DVS on the audio interface of your choosing. Got a cheap two channel mixer with digital audio and a couple of turntables? No problem. Serato, NI and (now) Pioneer are able to pick and choose their partners, leaving you out in the cold if your gear isn’t on the guest list.
Do you think smaller companies like Mixvibes have an opportunity now that the industry has had a shake-up?
Advertises Windows 10 support using an image of an Apple computer…….too funny!
They’re still the best Windows laptops! ;)
Yeah, I know……
well being that i build pc spec pre spec
i can tell you both pc and mac’s run the same hardware
what your paying for apple support ..
how every if you want that kind of support on a windows laptop i would go origin pc
. Im no fan boy of anything here i alwas look at what pc’s have vs each other .
apple alwas has a big mark up more so than just buying a custom laptop at origin .
I’m not a fanboy either. I don’t like iOS so use Android but am indifferent about OS X and Windows. My point just there wasn’t about horsepower (of course, there are cheaper Windows laptops with faster specs) but about the overall package. There isn’t a Windows laptop in existence with the build, battery, touchpad and screen combination that currently exists. I was happy to buy one to replace my ageing 2010 MBP. I got a 2015 one for silly money instead.
nice
Personally, I feel that OSX has the advantage when dealing with sound. Only due to Core Audio being raw and unbuffered, this really isn’t an issue with enough system RAM if you are running Windows. You just put up with a bit more latency when using ASIO… you get used to it. If I really want to run OSX, I did the research on my Windows laptop before I made my purchase and made sure it was compliant on insanely mac.
i do like there os i only wish they sold it to all pc users
Me too, as it is you can get about 97% functionallity for about 1/4 the cost. Last time I built a Hackintosh I actually bought the ISO from a local independent Mac store from their service department… I had a buddy that I’d do electronics repairs for. The method I used was vanilla kernel with Grub 2 and rewrote my EFI with the nesessary kext. I had people argue with me about the legality of my computer hack due to using a modified kernel. Personally I find that OSX on Mac hardware only to be a bit outdated at this point. With Jobs (rest in peace) gone, the Mac build has suffered. Jobs was a hardware man, you could tell that he had price point vs quality in mind. Since his passing the corporate bottom line thinking has given the consumer the lowest common denomination of hardware, using the company name and operating system to sell more units.
i feel the same way. to bad ubuntu is not more user friendly as i would dj with mixvibes on it . mixvibes was working on a ubuntu/linux dj app
I want to like Cross so much. It’s just in desperate need of a GUI overhaul for the desktop version.
You guys here can’t stop with the “goes to 11” joke ;-)
Love Cross – think it beats everything out there except for FX compared to Tractor (and I use RMX 1000/DJM FX so have everything I want covered).
Runs video natively, has amazing track browsing and management, very flexible beat griding options, can export to Rekordbox, rock solid DVS that works on my DJM 900 (no need for any ‘club kit’), 32bit or 64bit option, full width screen option for parallel wave forms and much more.
Shame it never gets the attention the other companies do – cheers for covering it (and will be updating to latest after the upcoming gigs this and next weekend)
We tried the demo with a lot of expectation after reading about the integration with Recordbox and the other “import from other soft” features, we thought that apart from a decent DJ program it could be a kind of bridge or “Recordbuddy” for everything but when importing from Traktor beatgrids weren’t on it’s place, they moved :) and it doesn’t sound as good as Traktor so we were dissapointed and give up there…
last time I used Cross was to demo it on my laptop, and the software didn’t feature full-kill. I wonder if there’s anyone using this in clubs………..
There are 4 different EQ presets to choose from, kill included. Been professionally using Cross for about 3 years now, when I switched to using laptop.