DAN HAGEDORN: Hi. I’m Dan Hagedorn from Input Logic Media. We’re here today at Gearwire.Com to introduce our latest product, Input Logic DJ. A month ago, we brought out drums, some of you have perhaps seen this on Gearwire.Com, and today we’re here to give you all the details, along with the help of our product specialist, Luke, about our latest edition Input Logic DJ.

LUKE: Hi. This is Luke, and today I’ll be demonstrating Input Logic DJ, the latest and greatest from Input Logic Media. Now, on the mixer here of Input Logic DJ, there are bimanual faders. Now, the reason they are worthy to be called bimanual is because you can move the around with your mouse this sort of action going on. You can set these faders so that the left hand can navigate around them really easily, really quickly. This eliminates target acquisition so your left hand isn’t flying around in space trying to get the fader. It can just lock and snap to them.

Now, each channel has various things you can do with it. The source at the top here let’s you pick the file that channel is going to play, the plugins button lets you add VST effects, the turntable button allows you to turn that channel into a turntable, the mute and solo buttons obviously mute and solo the channel, and the mono button turns the channel into a mono feed.

All of these turntables can be synced up to the mixer, and so how we do that is you click sync, you press play, and you let go of sync, and there it goes right there, and you can do that will all of the turntables. Every turntable does that. So, all of these turntables can actually -- they’re all really the same turntables. They all have the same effects. All these little turntables are really just minimized big turntables.

Presets: Now, how this works is -- let’s say you like your settings -- you like them like so. You like playing around right here. So, you kind of increase that, and so you can click a preset button and you’re right back to the way you like it. This is basically the beginning of automation, which we also have. You can do this by clicking on your chord button and then do whatever you want, mess with the speed, volume, similarly cut, filter, pitch range. Okay, we’ll -- I like that, and then you play it back.

[LUKE PLAYS TRACK USING INPUT LOGIC DJ]

All of these turntables have a pitch button and a speed button, so you can adjust the pitch and the speed in every single sample. The next thing I’ll show you is scratching with these records. Now, this can be accomplished four different ways. You can just grab the record with your mouse, and drag it on. Let’s seize this one over here.

[LUKE SCRATCHING TRACKS USING MOUSE]

[LUKE SCRATCHING TRACKS USING MIDI CONTROLLER]

or you can use MIDI levers. Yeah, I like that one.

[LUKE SCRATCHING TRACKS USING MIDI CONTROLLER]

So, you go over here to the Q out and you bring it over to the right so that you can listen to it through your headphones, and so you’re listening to your headphones or you’re syncing up. You got to play it. You got to sync it up. Okay. And then you bring it over to default, you bring this fader down, click default, just playing, and bring the fader up.

[LUKE PLAYING TRACKS USING INPUT LOGIC DJ]

You just edit the loop, that easy.

You can assign almost anything in this program to these mice or these inputs. The crossfader things, you can have it so that the left button plays, it syncs, it reverses, mute, scroll, loop, preset one, two, and three, tap, crossfader left to right, volume up and down, scratching, and then here’s additional parameters with the turntables. The turntable has the custom things like scratching, tapping, crossfading, and then once again, to play the sync, reverse, mute, scroll and loop, all of these different things, you can adjust all of these different parameters, do it all on the fly.

So, maybe now I’ve covered around 10% of the application. Some have said this is like Pro Tools for DJ, and that Input Logic DJ.