The opening screen is almost blindingly spartan, featuring blank gray decks and triggers to add music.Īhem. It strips away the user interface elements that might frighten and confuse new users. Pacemaker is easily the friendliest-looking user interface in DJing yet. I’ll see if my colleague sitting in the same room does this: Let’s have a hands-on with the actual app. It might also be disastrous news for producers who at least could rely on selling music to DJs. Founder Jonas Norberg has so far hit two strikes – an app for Blackberry Playbook (oops) and a pricey hardware gadget that failed to compete with laptop DJ solutions.īut Pacemaker for iOS has an ace in the hole: Spotify. Pacemaker might not be who you’d bet on as the new major player. Even arguably more consumer-friendly software like Algoriddim’s market-leading djay still resemble DJ apps of old. That’s a good thing for Traktor’s intended audience, but it leaves open a window in the market. When Traktor came to the iPad, it saw a significantly-streamlined interface, but the underlying functionality remains geared for the professional user – so much so, in fact, that it’s possible to exchange libraries and hardware interfaces between the two. But Traktor is still software molded for the professional DJ, and particularly those in the club scene. It’s been a while since digital DJing has seen a bona fide major hit.
