VirtualDJ - VDJ 6.0 (Changes List) (de)

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Read this before asking whether something has been fixed/changed/improved.

VirtualDJ 6.0 (31 May 2009)

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 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

geposted Wed 03 Jun 09 @ 4:51 am

Bren F

PRO InfinityMember since 2003

Or read it here:

http://www.virtualdj.com/wiki/VirtualDJv6.0.html

geposted Wed 03 Jun 09 @ 4:52 am