More feature suggestions

Hi there! As a rekorDBox user and fan, I'd like to make my contribution. Here's my list of suggestions for rekorDBox (some of these ideas may have already been proposed) :

 

 

1. Polyrhythmic beatgridding

The ability to choose the number of beats between the red markers. It's possible to add various values, which can be fixed numbers (3-3-3, 4-4-4, 5-5-5) or sequences of alternating numbers (3-2-3-2, 3-2-2-3-2-2...). 

 

 

3. Extended BPM range

Extend the minimum BPM value from 40 to 0 (it helps with some pop songs that end with a speed decrease) and the maximum value from 499 to 1.000 at least... (Extratone DJs would love that...)

 

 

4. Dynamic Key Gridding

For songs that have a variable key (starts in 8A and ends in 3A, for example), allows to tell where a key change occurs and what are those keys. The key change would be done with a button labeled as "2a | 7a" (for example).

 

 

5. Genre and artist splitting

Allows rekorDBox to separate (or not) different genres/artists in its category filters, by reading track's id3 tags. Separation would take place where the elements are separated by (let's say) semicolons (having the ability to dissociate all the different genres/artists allows to easily spot tracks with the same tag but written in different ways, allowing the DJ to rewrite all those tags in the same way and get rid of unnecessary tags). 

 

 

6. Extended FX

Adding some Pioneer DJ gear effects to rekorDBox :

     -Beat FX : Beat Divide (from CDJ-900NXS), Fader Synth, Chorus, Time Sweep Echo, Shimmer...

     -Color FX : Ring Mod, DJM-850's Gate effect, Humanizer, Vocoder, Fuzz...

     -Release FX (from XDJ-RX3) : Mute, Build-Up and Ducking

While we're at it, here's three new ideas for Beat FX :

     -Enigma Phase : Phaser effect that sweeps upwards/downwards to infinity

     -Sway : Roll effect that goes back and forth

     -AleaTrans (inspired by the Toraiz Squid) : Trans effect that randomly cuts the sound with a probability that can be set between 0% and 100%

(some of those effects work well with one stem or another, like Chorus or Vocoder with the Vocal stem)

 

 

7. Traffic Light improvement

Coloring track's keys according to their harmonic compatibility level :

-Same key = green

-Related Key 1 = yellow-green

-Related Key 2 = yellow

-Related Key 3 = orange

-All other keys = red

 

 

8. Six players

Controlling six virtual decks.

 

 

9. Multilayer video mixing

Combining up to six layers of video content at once (only works for powerful computers, I guess...).

 

 

10. Smart Master Tempo

Allows to apply Master Tempo to Inst and Vocal stems, but not Drums (they usually sound bad below 0%).

 

 

11. Auto Master Tempo

When moving the pitch slider, the track's key is stabilized by increments of one semitone, depending on the nearest semitone (like an auto-tune effect). Both Smart MT and Auto MT functions should be compatible with each other (a priori).

 

 

12. Multi-type match track

Allows to create and choose one or more criteria when matching two songs (can be helpful when matching two tracks for unusual reasons...).

 

 

13. ProDJLink Multinet

Splitting a ProDJLink network into two meta-networks (Alpha and Beta), both share the same track library but each has its own master and sync players.

 

 

14. Phrase Editing improvement

Currently, when rekorDBox analyzes the mood of the track and "decides" to give it a certain phrase set, it is impossible to change it (that's unbearable :/).

The idea is for rekordbox to get rid of the track mood analysis and simply give each track the same phrase set (Intro, Verse, Up, Chorus, Down, Bridge and Outro). When it comes to edit the track's phrases, the DJ labels each part of the track with the right phrase type; then, he assigns a number to each phrase.

 

 

15. Deck Swap

Changes track and playback status between two decks. Just press Deck Swap in each deck at the same time (be careful with the levels and EQs positions when swapping decks!).

 

 

16. Meta-Loop and Meta-Slip Loop

The ability to create small loops and slip loops inside longer loops (allows to introduce some rhythmic variation to a long instrumental section that is already looped, for example).

 

 

17. Bridge Cue

The user places two cue points 'alpha' and 'beta' anywhere in the track. When playing, the track will automatically jump to the 'beta' cue point when it reaches the 'alpha' cue point, and viceversa. This affects playback (forward or reverse), scratch, beat jump, loop and jog search. In case of need, each bridge cue point can be moved to another position. Each pair of 'alpha' and 'beta' Bridge Cues can be activated and deactivated independently (if you have an extended version you want to shorten in different ways without having to create several edits of it, just set four pairs of Bridge Cues in it and you'll be able to shorten it in 15 different ways, which means 15 different short versions from the same audio file...).

 

 

18. Polyrhythmic Auto Beat Loops

Like the CDJ-3000 (3/4 - 1 - 3/2 - 3 - 5 - 6 - 7 and 9 lengths). And don't forget 1/3 and 2/3!

 

 

19. Smart Key

Remember Smart Master Tempo? Same thing here, but for both Key Sync, Keyboard and Key Shift functions.

 

 

20. Extended MyTag engine

-Increasing the maximum number of tags for each category (currently 50, I think...)

-Adding two new boolean operators NOT-AND (displays all tracks that fail to match, at least, one of the chosen tags) and NOT-OR (displays all tracks that don't match any of the chosen tags)

-Adding the ability to join a PNG icon to each tag and switch between text tags or icon tags (in certain cases, icons could work better than text)

 

 

21. Energy Level analyze

Analyzes the overall energy level for each track and stores it in the database.

 

 

22. Compressor knob for each deck

 

 

23. Extended EQ Mode selection

Adding a third EQ type in the Settings Menu : the DJM-V10 4-band EQ with Low, Low-Mid, Mid-Hi and Hi buttons

 

 

24. The ability to apply (or not) Active Censor effects only to Vocal stem