DJ Mag Canada 011- November 2013 | Page 175

TECH Audio Routing Flexible routing to various soundcards & controllers Radical First, DJs are able to construct their own custom set-up. Any number of decks (from one to more than DJs could ever use), any number of effects modules, any number of mixers, any number of browsers, the routing of all of the modules and the placement of all the modules on screen, with all modules in a given signal path colour-coded (including deck waveforms). Take a deep breath… whether DJs need three mixers or ?ve browsers is debatable, but we love the open-ended design. All cool so far, but what’s so radical here? Let’s look at that second feature, that really starts to mix things up. The decks can be used like arrange pages, as in Ableton Live. In ONE they are called ‘timelines’ and they let the DJ/performer lay out as many audio ?les as they want in one view. A simple example might be placing an acapella and an instrumental together side-by-si