The FX section below this gives you control of the FX for each deck and also the master FX. Loading a new set during a live gig in inadvisable as the main output screen cuts to black during the set load, which is to be expected as the app is clearing the current video for a new clip to be loaded into the same slot. Once you’ve selected a clip, it gets a small marker displayed on the media grid, just so you don’t try reselecting the same loop twice. The five tabs approach for grouping your clips can be handy if you’re trying to programme your VJ set – for example, grouping all text-based clips in one bank or perhaps grouping by colour could be useful. TouchViz allows you to save a group of 125 clips (five banks of 25) as a “Set” for instant recall. To load a clip into a deck, you tap the deck label (eg “A”) and then one of the clips displayed in the media grid on the right. For each deck, you can see the clip position and adjust its speed with the slider underneath it. The default layout shows you the master output screen in the top left section with deck A and B detail below this. You can also use the iPad camera as an exciting extra source, for filming the crowd or your own dexterity on the decks… TouchViz lets you mix between two video loops, applying an effect to each plus a master effect, as well as adjusting the speed of each loop. There are currently a few iPad apps which allow you to do this, but this one – by Hexler, the development team behind the widely used control interface app, TouchOSC – is the best of the crop. TouchViz allows the user to perform loop-based mixing using combinations of effects and other techniques to blend video clips in a “moving-wallpaper” approach. So what if you could do all of this with a simple app for your iPad? What if you could take an iPad to your gig with you, plug it into the venue’s screens, and add an exciting visual element to your audio-only DJ sets? Well, as long as your iPad is modern enough (the iPad 1 struggles with this kind of thing), it turns out that with a clever app called TouchViz, you can. One of the routes into VJing we explored in our recent Getting Started In Video DJing series was having visuals in addition to your “normal” DJ set-up in other words, rather than DJing with music videos, having visual loops and other inputs as something extra that you somehow add to your music-based DJing. We’ve already identified VJing as one of the ways digital DJs can differentiate themselves from the competition.
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