VirtualDJ 5.1 (01 June 2008)
FAME engine:
- new BPM engine with more accurate detection (with new option: "Allow BPM<80")
- new automatic Key detection
- optional automatic Key-Match
- new auto-gain engine
Video:
- video session recording
- fade to black on level sliders
- new video transition: none (to use with fade-to-black)
Automix:
- display both playing and coming waveform in songpos graphic
- can move mixpoints on the fly during automix
Timecode:
- new engine "VDJ Timecode v5" for VirtualDJ vinyls, optimized for scratch (the old engine "VDJ Timecode v4" optimized for needledrop is still available)
- new engine "Noisemap" compatible with most noisemap-based records
- new engine "PCDJ" compatible with most miss pinky-based timecode records
- "Software RIAA preamp" now disabled in CD mode
External devices:
- Pioneer CDJ-400
- Vestax VCI-100
- Denon HC4500
- Xponent (fixed)
- DJConsole RMX (improved)
New commands:
- smart beat-tap (automatically snap tapped beat to the nearest likely bpm)
- smart play (play directly on beat)
- smart cue (hotcue always in the tempo)
- effect_slot_scroll
- jogwheel (for wheels without touch sensitive)
- scratch_wheel (for wheels with touch sensitive)
- scratchweel_touch (use this instead of "hold" to allow for smart backspins)
- vinyl_mode (to switch between jog mode and vinyl mode on "jogwheel" and "scratch_wheel" actions)
- key (slider for changing key [by 100=1 semitone])
- keysmooth (like key, but allows values not multiple of a semitone)
Skin:
- new skin "HE5" featuring all the new functions of v5.1
- new skin textitem:
%bpmex: bpm with 2 digits after dot
%bpmexx: bpm with 3 digits after dot
%key: original key of song
%Pkey: key of song including key modifier
%camelot: camelot key of song - new automix textitem: chan="automix"
It works with "title", "author", "comment", "bpm", "key", "level", "time", "start", "end", "firstbeat", "lastbeat", "linkedvideo".
Small Improvements:
- sharper coverflow
- improved vumeters
- improved the function headphone_mix
- new columns in the browser: Camelot, Composer
Bug fixes:
- fixed memory leak in advanced timecode config
- small video freeze on nVidia GT 8000 mobile serie should be now fixed
- fixed problems with iCDX
- fixed all the "Sorting" bugs
- many small bugs from v5.0.x fixed...
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