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Sure, such a DJ may step up and “do some DJing”, but that’s only part of what he or she would want from a DJ program. Instead, it’s designed for the “DJ one man band” – the kind of entertainer who as I said in the intro may be conducting a karaoke evening, or providing the music at a kids’ party, or playing a wedding, or a providing video DJing at a sports bar, or compering a company corporate party.

Sure, you can mix on it (it has waveforms, BPM analysis, tempo lock, sync buttons, cues, loops etc), but that’s not its reason for existence. This is “entertainment software” as much as it is “DJ software” in the sense of club DJing, or “mixing DJing”, if you like.

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UltraMixer 5S Pro Entertain knows its market. In Use The twin playlist view is unique to UltraMixer, and will help busy DJ/entertainers to blur the line between mixing themselves and having the software do it for them. Once we’re up and running, the program has an idiosyncratic feel to it compared to other DJ software, and looks dated (for instance, on the Mac, it doesn’t have Retina graphics, and feels curiously like a very early version of Traktor), but see past the less-than-lovely GUI and you realise it’s very configurable, with thoughtful touches like splitting out the music database into its own window (so you could pull it to a second monitor in an installation set-up, for instance) and the ability to display various elements in different places. You can buy a licence at any time from within the app.

You’ll almost definitely want the latter, as it’s the only one that works with Midi controllers, for a start. Once past this hurdle, you are into a free trial (needs a reboot every hour), and get to choose whether you want to trial the “Home”, “Basic” or “Pro Entertain” version.

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On our Mac, we were asked to install a legacy version of the Java Runtime Environment in addition, which is unnecessarily clunky and will panic the less tech-savvy, and ought not be necessary with modern software. You download the version that suits your system (PC/Mac, with a choice of 32-bit or 64-bit architecture), and follow an installation process. There’s a forum with a relatively small but clearly committed user base, and downloadable mappings for scores of controllers, including lots of modern models such as the Reloop BeatPad 2, Denon DJ MC4000, and (coming soon) Pioneer CDJ2000 Nexus. The website is modern and clean, and lays out the versions you can choose from as well as lots of information about the app.

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