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Virtual DJ General FAQ

Fame What Is it?

Fame is an acronym for Fast Automated Mix Engine. This was developed by atomix and based off of the solid design of atomixmp3 a now distant cousin to VDJ. As you can see, those settings are adjustable, but first we will look at what those features are and how they can benefit you.

Bpm Engine

The bpm engine uses two separate algorithms to calculate the bpm of a given track. There are two choices

Tecno/Hip Hop

Any Music

For most users the one called any music will work best. There is a new option in 2.1 to scan tracks via right click in the browser with either engine.

Auto BPM

The auto bpm gives us options on how vdj will react to a track loaded in either player that has not been scanned. those options are:

Enabled - This option will scan all tracks loaded into the player it can slow down the track loading process in vdj if your ram is on the slow side.

Disabled - This option will turn off scanning of a track when loaded into the player

Smart - This option will enable vdj to chose the best option when loading a track to either option. For example if a track is already scaned, it will act as disabled. If a track is not scaned it will act as enabled.

Auto Gain

This option allows VDJ to control the gain of your tracks loaded into either player the options are

Disabled - The track will load with no adjustments to the gain.

Always Match - Track will all match the gain level of the first track loaded into the player.

Always 0db - Vdj will make adjustments so that tracks will play at what vdj considers to be 0 DB in other words max volume.

Auto Pitch & Auto Eq Rest

Both of these basically do the same thing, rest

when a new track is loaded into either player.

Auto Cue

The auto cue has three options

Disabled - turns off the auto cue feature

Enabled - This feature will set to cue #1 if

available if no cue is set vdj acts as it were disabled.

Always - VDJ will look for any cue to fast forward to

Reguardless if its number one or not. Track will

load and cue to the first available cue point

Force Fade

The force fade option relates to VDJ's automix.

Enabled - VDJ will limit the automix to fades only

with no change in tempo

Disabled - VDJ will automatically change the tempos to match one another "auto beat mix"

Fade Length

This controls how quickly the automix will fade

from one track to another. In 2.1 this is now a

Slider rather then a number.

Crossfader

This Option will control the crossfader behavior

Limiter

This will control the dynamics processor of VDJ the

limiter is desigend to limit tracks that are too loud

Time Stretch

The time stretch option will allow you to change the tempo of a song without effecting the pitch

Disenguage Beat Lock

This feature will control the beat lock in VDJ there

are three options

On Load - turns off the beat lock when you

load a Track

On Switch - turns off beat lock when you

change the active player

Manual - Beat lock will not turn off untill you

manually switch it off via a shortcut or skin button

More to come....