What’s new in Ora DJ

New

• Direct Rekordbox import. You can now bring your Rekordbox library straight into Ora DJ from Settings, tracks and cues included, with no manual export step in between.
• Phrase detection in Track Prep. Ora DJ now maps each track into its musical sections (intro, build, breakdown, groove, outro) under the waveform, and you can correct any section by hand. Your edits stay put through re-analysis.
• More accurate key detection. Reworked key analysis reads tracks more reliably, so the keys you mix on are more trustworthy.
• Drag-and-drop cues in Track Prep. Grab a hot cue or memory cue on the waveform and drag it exactly where it belongs, instead of deleting and re-adding it to nudge it into place.
• Waveform color schemes. Pick how the 3-Band waveform looks from three palettes (Simple, Nocturnal Studio, and the new Electric Contrast default) in Settings.
• Finder-style keyboard navigation in the track list, so you can move through your library entirely from the keyboard.

Improvements

• A cleaner deck. The deck section is now a single, uncluttered card with a scrollable loop-length ladder (from 1/32 up to 32 beats) and steadier BPM and time alignment that no longer shifts as the numbers change.
• Bar-snapping in the Track Prep overview. Hovering the overview waveform snaps a guide line to the nearest bar and shows how many bars you are from the playhead, and clicking seeks straight to that bar.
• Tidier Track Prep controls across the beatgrid panel, the FX toggle, and overall alignment.
• Sharper Slip Mode. Slip Mode now tracks the would-be playhead inside the audio engine, so snapping back is sample-accurate and free of clicks.
• Consistent 4-bar jumps. The left and right arrows now move a steady four bars and keep your place within the bar, instead of snapping to the nearest line.

Fixes

• Fixed header dropdowns staying open when you click the title bar.
• Fixed track context menus and submenus that could open off the edge of the screen.

New

• Intel Mac support. Ora DJ is now a universal app. The same download runs natively on both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs, so Intel users can run the release for the first time.
• Slip Mode. Scratch, loop, or hold a hot cue and the track keeps running underneath. Let go and the deck jumps forward to where it would have been. Works on screen and from your controller.

Improvements

• Cleaner audio, more headroom. Playback resamples more smoothly, most audible on pitched-up tracks and on 44.1 kHz files played through a 48 kHz device, and the master leaves more headroom so the limiter pumps less.
• More ways to zoom the waveform. Hold Ctrl and scroll to zoom the deck waveforms in and out.
• Tighter knobs and faders. Knobs and faders now use pointer-lock dragging, so you can grab one and keep going past the edge of the control without losing it.
• Keep your ratings on import. A new "Update Rating" toggle when matching tracks from Rekordbox, off by default, so an import never overwrites your star ratings unless you ask it to. Play counts and comments fill in on matched tracks too.
• Faster track analysis on Apple Silicon.
• Remove folders in the sidebar. You can now remove library folders directly in the sidebar with a right click > delete dropdown action.

Fixes

• Ora DJ now recovers on its own if your audio device stops or disconnects mid-session.
• Fixed a freshly analyzed track loading to a deck without its beatgrid.
• Restored full brightness in the color overview waveform.

Ora DJ Studio is now Ora DJ. Same app, shorter name.

New

• A true isolator EQ. Turn a band all the way down and it's actual silence now, with a clean, surgical cut at the crossover, the way a club mixer behaves. The standard (non-isolator) EQ cuts deeper too.
• Color waveforms. A new RGB waveform colors the music by frequency: bass in red and orange, mids in green and yellow, highs in blue, dense drops near-white, quiet passages dim. Resolution is much higher as well, so zoomed in you can pick out individual kicks. The 3-band style stays available as a toggle (and is still the default).
• Adjustable waveform zoom. Pull the deck waveform back to see a breakdown coming, or push in to line up beats precisely, from the screen or your controller. Your zoom level sticks across restarts.
• Hot Cues in Track Prep. A dedicated Hot Cues tab, so you can set and organize cues faster while you prep instead of mid-set.
• Continuous Rekordbox export. Run Ora DJ alongside Rekordbox and your library now stays in sync automatically: every cue, playlist edit, and tag change is written out within seconds, with no manual export step.

Improvements

• A more musical mixer feel. The deck EQ is centered where you'd expect and sweeps smoothly without zipper noise, and the reverb now washes the track out into a bright hall as you turn it up.
• Much snappier on big libraries. Editing playlists, tags, and play counts, and moving things in the sidebar is instant now, no longer stuttering on large collections.
• Faster, lighter track analysis.
• Sort by any column. Click a track-list column header to sort by it. The Key column now sorts in Camelot wheel order whatever display format you use.
• Live position in the beatgrid editor. The zoom lane now shows the bar and beat you're on.
• Quicker library housekeeping. A folder-import button in the Folders section header, and a keyboard shortcut to cycle the library's top section view between 2-deck stacked, 2-deck side, and Track Prep.

Fixes

• More reliable cue and effects behavior during live performance.
• Fixed losing an active loop when setting a hot cue, plus a hot-cue preview glitch and a clipped Hot Cue color picker.
• Nested playlist subfolders now indent by depth in the sidebar.
• Smoother multi-track reordering and library drag-and-drop.

New

• Track Prep. A dedicated view for tightening beatgrids and setting memory and hot cues before you play, so your tracks are gig-ready ahead of time.
• Smarter duplicate detection. Ora DJ now finds duplicate tracks across multiple tiers, matching on audio content and metadata, so it catches the same track even when filenames or tags don't line up.
• More to work with in dynamic playlists. Genre and key multi-select, a cleaner energy operator, and you can save your current filter as a dynamic playlist in one step.
• Quicker track auto import. The import notification now has Show and Playlist+ actions, so freshly added tracks are one click from where you want them.

Improvements

• Snappier, more reliable playback. The audio engine was rebuilt from the ground up, dramatically cutting latency in both audio playback and controller interaction.
• A deeper track list. Ten new optional columns and a grouped column menu, plus new Disc number, Composer, Remixer, and Mix fields in the track info sidebar.
• Sharper filtering. Filter the track list by rating, release year, and play count from the Filter dropdown.
• Better library health view. Sharper health checks, a format-aware Low Bitrate filter (so lossless and AAC files aren't flagged by mistake), and tracks stored on external drives are now marked with an icon, so you can see at a glance which files go offline when a drive is unplugged.
• Clearer key column. Centered, with compatible cells tinted by Camelot key color so harmonic matches read at a glance.

Fixes

• Fixed audio desync when an audio device restarts mid-session.
• The All Music sidebar count now includes missing tracks, so the number matches your library.

New

• Settings moved up to the header, with a new View dropdown and a native macOS app-menu shortcut.
• Track analysis is about three times faster.

Fixes

• Long tracks no longer hit the analysis timeout before they finish. The timeout now scales with track length.
• Folder counts include missing and unlinked tracks, so the number reflects everything in the folder.
• External drives relink faster when you reconnect them.
• Fixed an import crash caused by track-ID collisions.

New

• Beatgrid editor. Correct a track's grid by hand when the automatic detection isn't quite right, with a dedicated analyze button.
• Library folders in the sidebar, with auto-import of new tracks and safe relocation when files move.
• Library health section in the sidebar, so problems in your collection are easy to spot.
• Per-component re-analyze. Re-run just BPM, key, energy, or waveform on a track instead of the whole analysis.
• Find in playlists from the track context menu.
• One export modal for both playlists and sessions, with Rekordbox XML.

Improvements

• Already-played tracks are dimmed in the track list, Rekordbox-style.
• Play count now increments on play, and the play-count threshold is configurable.
• New setting for BPM decimal places under Controller & Display.
• Copy-as-text button in the export modal.
• More accurate key detection.
• Smoother track-list scrolling.

Fixes

• The mixer toggle is now correctly disabled in compact view.
• Fixed a scrollbar jump in the track list.

New

• Energy analysis. Every track gets a 1–10 energy level and a per-bar energy curve, and you can filter your library by energy.
• Folder import with the full analysis pipeline, now publicly available.

Improvements

• Drag tracks from the library straight onto the canvas, with correct placement and automatic lane reflow.
• Energy badge now shows in the track card, in both cover-art and canvas views.
• New "Is / Is not" mode on the genre filter.
• Create a new dynamic playlist from the folder context menu.

Fixes

• Fixed playhead flicker when seeking with the arrow keys.
• Fixed a dynamic-playlist dropdown bug and added a tooltip on the merge icon.

New

• Reset layout action on the canvas, to undo manual lane arrangements in one click.
• Chapter stats now show in swimlane headers in cover-art view.

Improvements

• The audio analyzer was rebuilt for faster, lighter analysis.
• Key detection is about four times faster.
• Taller canvas lanes for easier reading and arranging.

Fixes

• Shift-click range selection now works on the first click.
• Canvas layout stays in sync when you change chapters or reorder tracks.

The first Ora DJ release we're tracking in the changelog. A snapshot of what it does:

Highlights

• Visual set planning. Arrange your set on a canvas with chapters and swimlanes, in cover-art or list view.
• Dynamic playlists that build themselves from rules you set.
• Track analysis. BPM, beatgrid and downbeat detection, key detection, and waveforms.
• Rekordbox import for your existing library, playlists, and metadata.
• Controller support for the Pioneer DDJ-400, DDJ-FLX4, and DDJ-GRV6, with hot cues, beat FX, and LED feedback.
• 4-channel audio output for supported controllers through a dedicated audio bridge.
• A track list built for big libraries. Waveform column, color tags, bulk tagging, genre / tag / date-added filters, play history, and inline metadata editing.