Ora DJ

The DJ prep app Rekordbox should have been: DJ set planning, library management, audio analysis, controller integration. Performant audio engine.

[Ora DJ @GetOraDJ]

Most DJ software is built for the moment you're playing. Almost nothing is built for the hours before, when you actually shape the set.

That's what Ora DJ Studio is for.

[Ora DJ @GetOraDJ]

Your set has an energy curve. Your library should show it.

Ora DJ analyzes every track’s energy automatically. If a score feels off, change it. Then filter your library for the energy the room needs next.

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Eight cue points, set in one click.

Ora DJ reads the breakdowns and drops in your waveform, previews its suggestions, then lets you accept or adjust each one.

Less prep. More time for the mix.

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What will this mean for AI Music and Artists?

[Gaurav Sharma @gsharmanyc]

the most creative people find their creativity by accident
when they break the “algorithm”

this is not "philosophy" this is a literal observation about how new things enter the world.

Look at a vinyl record

in the early 1970s, someone put their hand on a spinning record and dragged it backward.

the needle skipped and the sound stuttered into something the groove was never meant to produce.

they thought it was a banger at that time.

that’s when scratching was born.

then scratching led to sampling

then breakbeats

then an entire hip hop culture that now drives a $20 billion global industry.

hip hop literally came from breaking an existing expected behavior.

i think about this every night because we're living through the biggest algorithmic shift since the internet itself.

ai can now compose music, write lyrics, produce beats, clone voices. and the people are divided into two thoughts: people who think ai will replace artists, and people who think artists should ban ai music entirely.

i’m telling you right now, both are wrong.

the real question is: who controls the algorithm, and who breaks it?

i've watched the music industry go from cds to mp3s to streaming to whatever this next era is.

every transition looks the same: a new technology arrives, the industry panics, artists get squeezed, and whoever controls the infrastructure wins.

[Ora DJ @GetOraDJ]

Your playlist is ready. Your files aren't.
Ora DJ finds the incompatible tracks, creates club-safe copies, and carries over your cue points, beatgrids, and metadata. Your originals stay untouched.
One less surprise when you plug in at the club.

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Groove Match knows your entire library and helps you rediscover forgotten gems by matching the groove of the previous track or a selected track - all fully local.

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Enable "hover preview" to hover over a track in your playlist to start listening to it at the right point when the groove starts. Discover your tracks faster than ever before.

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Update in Ora DJ to get it.

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Create a living crate from the rules that shape your sets.

Dynamic playlists are now in Ora DJ.

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You can also shape a crate around BPM, key, color, rating, date added, or play count.

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Keep shaping the flow of your set with less time spent searching.

Update Ora DJ to get it.

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Groove Match: find the right next track faster with recommendations in Ora DJ.

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v0.31.0 is available in Ora DJ. Update in-app when you are ready. 6/6

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More ways to rediscover your library. v0.31.0 gives Ora DJ a new Library Home for familiar artists, labels, genres, and tracks that fit your listening patterns. 1/6

[Ora DJ @GetOraDJ]

Ora DJ reaches large libraries sooner, and preparation progress now shows audio analysis and track-suggestion indexing separately. 5/6

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v0.30.0 is available in Ora DJ. Update in-app when you are ready. 6/6

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Key shifting and additional controllers supported. Ora DJ v0.30.0 lets you transpose loaded tracks in semitone steps and adds support for seven Pioneer/AlphaTheta controllers: DDJ-FLX2, DDJ-SB3, DDJ-FLX6, DDJ-800, DDJ-1000, DDJ-1000SRT, and DDJ-FLX10. 1/6

[Ora DJ @GetOraDJ]

Ora DJ no longer needs a restart after you import a library backup. 5/6