PCDJ DEX

Key Detection Optimization
New DEX 3 Logo/Launch Icon
Now Includes Official Pulselocker 1.0 SDK
Pulselocker Info Window Added
Various Performance Optimizations

Revamped BPM detection engine: You can count on more accurate BPMs and beat grids, making sync and beat aware effects work more effectively
Icecast support: You can now broadcast your live mix online
Scratch tab/panel on the 2-decks skins: New scratch tab displayed side-by-side waveforms for easy visual beat sync and scratching reference
Loop points: You can now save and recall loops using a new loops/cues toggle
Loop “Slip mode” setting: When exiting a loop in slip mode the track will continue as if no looping occurred (from the position it ought to be)
Auto-Cueing completely revamped:
Automatically detected mix-in and mix-out cue points (IN/OUT) – trimming off silence automatically
Setting to use either soft sounds or percussion for the in/out cue points detection (so you can have it skip quite intros, or start at the first audible sound)
Setting to utilize the new autocue when loading and for Auto-Mix
Effects engine refactoring: Overall effects quality improvements and leveling.
Revamped Effects: Bit Crusher – Robot Delay – Temolo – And new redesigned High-Pass and Low-Pass Filters.
Various Samplers improvements: Includes Sampler play modes (normal, stutter, instant/momentary), recording, waveform, cutoff filter, monitoring (pre-listen)
DJ Controller Support: Controllers can now be detected using USB VID:PID also on Mac
Automatic detection of arrival/removal of DJ MIDI controllers: You can now plug-in or disconnect DJ controllers DEX 3.4 is running. EXPLANATION: You are able to start DEX 3.4 and connect or disconnect any (supported DJ controller) MIDI controller and DEX 3.4 will detect it on-the-fly. This means you can start DEX 3.4 without a DJ controller connected and then add or remove controllers (up to 8 at the same time) and they will be detected and start working automatically and immediately. DJ controller detection works on both Mac and Windows. This feature is really great if a controller hangs for some reason (so you would simply power it off and then back on — or remove it and then add it back) or if you simply wants to hook an additional controller (for additional control over features like the sampler).
Denon MC-6000 MKII DJ Controller is fully supported
Numark Mixtrack Pro 3 DJ Controller is fully supported
Search Change: When exiting search DEX 3.4 restores the last viewed list/folder
Graphics rendering improvements: Graphics will appear sharper with very sharp on-screen text
Drag & drop files from Explorer / Finder: You can now drag files from windows explorer directly into DEX 3.4 lists (current list or side list)
Several small bug fixes (including 2 crash fixes) and various performance optimizations

Brand new BPM detection engine (beta)
Icecast support (beta) – broadcast your live mix
Scratch tab/panel on the 2-decks skins
Loop points (saving and recalling loops)
Loop “Slip mode” setting – when exiting the loop it will continue as if no looping occurred (from the position it ought to be)
Auto-Cueing completely revamped:
Automatically detected mix-in and mix-out cue points (IN/OUT)
Setting to use either soft sounds or percussion for the in/out cue points detection
Setting to use or not Auto-cueing when loading and for Auto-Mix
Effect engine refactoring (internal)
New Effects: Bit Crusher – Robot Delay – Temolo – And new redesigned High-Pass and Low-Pass Filters.
Samplers improvements incl. Sampler play modes (normal, stutter, instant/momentary), recording, waveform, cutoff filter, monitoring (pre-listen)
Controllers can now be detected using USB VID:PID also on Mac
Denon MC-6000 MKII DJ Controller is fully supported
When exiting search it restores the last viewed list/folder
Graphics rendering improvements (eg. better looking text)
Setting to change between then new and the old (compatibility mode) BPM detection
Several small bug fixes (including 2 crash fixes) and optimizations
Drag & drop files from Explorer / Finder to the current-list or the side-list

Play-Pause and CUE buttons blinking modes (works on controllers too)
Key stepper setting (full/half/quarter semitone) now also applied to the key slider (not only to the key up/down buttons)
Initial Support for the Denon MC-6000 MK2 (more improvement coming in 3.4)
Denon HC-4500 improvements to the jog-wheels
Support for WAV+G files (wav+cdg and zipped wav+cdg)
Black video background when the track is paused (so we can clearly see the karaoke “Next Singer” list)
Karaoke “Next Singer” list now shows the first 3 singers available in the first 10 tracks (no matter if there are audio tracks in between them)
Fixed bug: if you drag and re-order singers, the next singer display goes blank.
Fixed bug: database lost when certain tracks (with over 4000 chars + non-latin chars in the comment tag) are added

Added:

Reloop Beatmix 2 Now Supported
Reloop Beatmix 4 Now Supported
Reloop Terminal Mix 8 Now Supported

Changes/Updates:

Waveforms amplitude normalized
Allows using special characters in lists names (eg. &)
Fixed several bugs
Denon DN-MC6000 improvements
Minor improvements

Added multi-track selection (work for/with: drag&drop tracks (to sidelist or to browser lists), remove tracks, analyse tracks, color/highlight tracks, send to sidelist, etc)
* you can use the or keys
* you can use the keyboard (eg. arrow keys)
Added 5 new video transitions: Blur, Pixelate, Blinds, Swipe H, Swipe V (The Swipe transitions are Star Wars inspired – yes we’re geeks are heart! )
Added setting to Preferences: “Search in the middle of words” (eg. to allow you to find “bcd” in “abcde”)
Added clock (time) in the included skins
Added new keyboard shortcuts:
* adds all inserted tracks in the current list to the sidelist
* inserts/clears all tracks in the list
* inserts the current track selected in the list
* drags/moves the current selected track up or down
* or drags/moves the current selected track to top/bottom of the list
Fixed crash when loading huge iTunes libraries
Fixed crash: tap/edit BPM from controllers
Fixed: for skins designers: vertical sound-displays (waveforms) work ok now
Other small fixes and improvements

DEX 3.2 is now available for download, here’s what’s new and improved:
IMPORTANT: the Windows version needs DirectX 10/11 compatible hardware (99% of Windows 7/8/8.1 machines should be compatible. If you’re using older Windows 7 hardware you can download a Direct X 9 specific version from the DEX 3 support page HERE).

Video Mix Recording (Beta Feature with various resolution recording options included)
Windows 64 Bit Support
Windows: Changed the graphics rendering system to DirectX 11 (much better performance)
Optimizations to allow for up to one-million tracks in the database and the search cache (Works on any Mac; 64-bit Windows with 4GB of RAM or more is recommended)
Searching improved
Fixed bug: reading tags/album artwork from files/folders with non-standard Latin characters (accents, etc)
* please note that this will work only for new files — the files already added to the database can’t be updated without a rebuild (We plan to offer this in 3.3)
Added 2 simple video fx/filters: Black & White, Sepia
Fixed crash on Mac when switching between Audio/Video skins
Updated SkinDesigner with new attributes for playlist and wheel controls
Several other performance improvements and bug fixes

Additional Release Notes:

Video recording is at experimental/beta stage; you need a powerful computer to use it (especially if you’re looking to record in HD quality)
The video window needs to be in full-screen mode if you want the best quality
For now you can record to MP4 (on Mac) and MPG (on Windows)
Database loading time: on a regular computer we can read from the database about 10K tracks in 1s (so about 100K tracks in 10s)

Extensive performance optimizations and stability improvements
Added list-mode (table-like display mode) for current list/sidelist
* To change between normal and list-mode right-click on the list and select “Toggle view mode” from the popup menu
* You can: change columns order, hide/show columns, re-size columns, lock sorting or re-sizing, sort by clicking on the columns (and revert the sorting by clicking on the “No.” column header)
Added daytime skins (and also modified master VU-meter color for the original skins)
Added compatibility with iTunes 12
Tags support greatly improved for both reading and writing (you can now edit tags for: mp3, m4a, mp4, wav, aif, flac, ogg, wma; note that most video files (except for mp4) don’t support tags so no tag editing is possible on mov, mkv, cdg-zip, au, etc)
Changed functionality: you can also scroll the lists by dragging them from the right side (very useful for touch-screen users); drag-&-drop still works if you drag a track from the left side; (left 75% drag&drop / right 25% scroll)
Improved controller engine on MacOSX
Loaded tracks are “greyed out” (session only)
Search improvements (includes fixing a search cache issue)
For skins designers: jog-wheel artwork now possible (spinning or not, you can also use a mask for it)
On Macs the app is now 64-bit (MacOSX 10.7+)
Known issues (to be addressed in next release):
On some AMD-powered graphics cards (AMD APU ones more specifically) the interface might not load ok

Fixed slow searching bug (for MAC users experiencing a lag while using search / it’s snappy now!)
Changed max favorite folders to 128 (up from 32)
Added .divx extension support (files would play in previous release, but only if you changed file extension to .avi. No longer necessary)
Various small bug fixes

Controllers added and performance upgrades