VirtualDJ 6.0 (31 May 2009)
Read more about this version HERE
New features:
- New powerful script language called "VDJscript" (for skins, keyboard shortcuts, controllers' mappings,...)
(see documentation: http://www.virtualdj.com/wiki/VDJscript.html ) - New controller support (with better integration of MIDI and HID controllers)
(see documentation: http://www.virtualdj.com/wiki/ControllerDefinition.html ) - New Timecode Engine (better accuracy and responsiveness to timecodes)
- New Internet features: NetSearch & MusicGroups
- New skin engine (skins can now be resized in real-time)
- New sampler (with half/double loops on the fly, and automatic jingle or loop mode depending if the rec_out point is almost a loop)
- Full Unicode compatibility (can display Japanese/Russian/... characters without problems)
Timecode:
- Timecode detection is now adapted to the signal in real-time
- New timecode mode "relative 2000Hz"
- New option 'noise LP filter'
Skin changes:
- New VirtualDJ6 skin (using the new script engine)
- Skins without a "version=6.0" in the header will continue to use the old syntax
- New skin element: <onload action=""/>
- New skin element: <scratchwave>
- New skin option: <tooltip>blabla</tooltip> inside <button> and <slider> elements on skins xml
Improvements:
- Improved video engine (more video codecs are now being played by the internal video decoder)
- New v6 database using UTF-8 (for Unicode compatibility)
- Bigger settings window with new options
- New tooltips in settings window
- Can change the language on the fly (in the skin window)
- Can now pick an action directly from a button in the skin, when you are in the mapper window.
- Progressive pitchbend (limited to +/- 25%)
- 14-bit MIDI support
- New video options "keep_ratio (crop)" and "keep_ratio (full)"
- New video transition: "grid"
- Read tags from .mov and .mp4
- Reduced range of equalizers (to prevent saturation when put to max)
- Gain knob now goes up only to +7.5dB (new action "power_gain" can goes up to +30dB like v5 gain).
- BPM analysis now sets up bitrate
- Registry entry: iTunesFolder
- Added new decoder for codec: "General Internal Audio". Should be used instead of quicktime for .m4a
- New columns in browser: "Bmp Diff" and "Key Diff", usefull to sort by more compatible to less compatible songs.
- New filter-folder options: "insearchdb", "ispresent", "bpmdiff", "keydiff"
- autocrossfade-length setting used in automix if not tempo or cut
- Got rid of the infamous smiley face
- New sound effect 'echo'
New actions:
- 'get' + ...
- 'fader_start' (starts the song when crossfader or volume fader is moved)
- 'gain_slider', 'volume_slider', 'crossfader_slider'
- 'slider_relative', 'gain_relative', ...
- 'param_invert', 'param_add', 'param_multiply'
- 'set_bpm': "set_bpm 123.4" or "set_bpm 200%"
- 'headphone_gain'
- 'crossfader_curve'
- 'loop_double', 'loop_half'
- Check the action list in the mapper window (or look in english.xml in Languages/) for more.
Bug fixes:
- fixed m4a with foreign characters
- fixed serato crates
- fixed video jump on directX 11
- fixed genre tag on m4a files
- fixed freeze on some nvidia cards (needs to put nVidiaFreezeBug to 1 in the registry).
- fixed automix silence if bad tempo endpoint
- fixed droping in virtualfolder from search
- fixed auto_crossfade in safe mode
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