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The first one i looked at was DJ Mixer 3. The best thing about it is that it’s free to download with the bundled music that comes with it. If you want to play your own music, you have to buy that function for $10. Considering that most DJ apps cost around $10-20 it’s not very expensive but if you’re anything like me you have a certain level of expectation when you pay for something. When you slowly discover that you’ve just paid 10 bucks for a media player with no EQ, effects, cue points or even pitch/tempo bend… you start to wonder what’s going on.
If that gets you frustrated and unsatisfied enough to fork out another $5 for the “Pro effects†only to realize that they are referring to sound effects like sirens, backspins, breaking glass, horns and 80s DJ vocals (like: “This one’s for the sexy ladiesâ€) you’ll be boiling.
DJ Mixer 3 has two great features though, tempo faders instead of pitch faders and the ability to connect a second iDevice through Wi-Fi to use for pre listening. But without cue points, pitch/tempo bend or EQ I can’t call this a proper DJ application even for emergency use.
Songs can be imported through the iPod library but it’s a time consuming procedure of individual track imports and it takes a long time to calculate BPM and waveform. Needless to say, you have to have all your imports done before you start DJing.
