"Set-up your very own DJ system, without much hassle and easily."
In today’s world, the market is full of applications that will help you to mix using not just two but - in different cases - up to four decks. More than it, the best DJ software offers myriad creative options, so you can touch your performances with some real pizzazz.

A list of the Top 10 DJ Softwares list are -

1) Magix Digital DJ - Digital DJ2 isn’t the most powerful application on the market, but it offers all the necessary features that you’ll need to get mixing at a relatively lower price. The application is a similar version of Image-Line’s Deckadance, which is offering two-deck mixing, X/Y pad effects, a looper, and supporting a wide range of MIDI controllers. The features that Digital DJ2 does pack are, on the whole and nicely implemented.
2) PCDJ Dex – Along-with all the standard features that the user’s expects from a software DJing package like mixer, effects, EQs etc - Dex 2 features some integrated video mixing and karaoke support, which makes it an impressively flexible option. DJ features states that the software comes with four virtual decks, with beat sync and key-matching facility. There is also privileged a sample player with looper tool.
3) Algoriddim Djay Pro - Algoriddim gave deep attention to the mobile market, so that djay is available for both iOS and Android devices, and even the Apple Watch is now supporting but its djay Pro software which gives Mac users something more important to consider. It is a native 64-bit application which is optimized for Retina displays. Giving you the chance to mix both audio and video, algoriddim's flagship software also supports a 4-deck mixing and offers you turntable and waveform views. There's a sampler and plus effects and all the auto mixing and advanced DJing facilities you will need.
4) Mixvibes Cross - This software has faced continuous updates for the past few years, so that it results an impressively extensive set of features. The application offers a highly customizable interface which contains four decks, two eight-slot samplers, eight assignable cue points and 14 different effects. There will be support for a range of controllers and digital vinyl systems, and also offers to import your music collection directly from Pioneer record box.
5) Atomix Virtual DJ Pro – Virtual DJ Pro isn’t cheap which costs $299 for the Pro version. It is the most expensive of the straight DJ applications in this list according to some features that it offers. But it also offers some highly flexible ‘pro’ features. Most importantly, Virtual DJ Pro can execute anything up to 99 virtual decks. It’s also Rewire compatible, means it can be run in addition with various DAWs and opens up a whole world of performance possibilities.
6) Mixxx - Mixxx is one of our favorite, free and open source application for music. Not only can you download it without payment, but the more importantly can also delve into the code and can adopt its feature set. Normal features of it are twin decks facility with iTunes integration, four sample decks, loops and hot cues and support for a variety series of track formats etc.
7) Gibson Deckadance - Under the ownership of Gibson, Deckadance provides some great editing tools, a highly customizable interface and has a great Smart Knob function, which allows macro-style control over multiple effect parameters at once.
8) Serato DJ - Serato has come a long way since the birth of digital vinyl DJing more than a decade ago. The company may be lost its grip as market leader to Native Instruments over the years, but constant development has helped Serato’s DJ software to stand there with the best.
9) Ableton Live - Ableton Live is something like an expected in this list. As it is not properly a true DJ application .But still it may be first visualized purely as a production tool, but in the coming years as its inception Live has become a favorite of DJs across the world.
10) Native Instruments Traktor Pro - Over a decade of its launch, Traktor Pro is pretty much like the gold standard of digital DJing. While some of its rivals may only do certain things better, but no other application can match Traktor in all-round flexibility and reliability. Between its excellent Sample Decks, and Remix Decks and Loop Recorder, also its incredible effects and its impressive beat and key analysis algorithms. Traktor has almost everything that a modern DJ is required.
Native Instruments’ like hardware controllers like the flagship S2 and S4, and more compact X1, F1 and Z1 - are some of the best around, which is ensuring that the company has a vice-like grip on the current market that it has no sign of relinquishing.
In terms of cost-effectiveness and flexibility, there cannot be any doubt that the best way to DJ is computer based. And if you have to do that, you need suitable software.

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