Controller Support

Ora DJ lets you rehearse planned sets on real hardware. Connect a supported controller and Ora DJ maps playback, cues, and tempo to your device.

What's mapped

Controller support covers the essentials: transport, jog wheels, channel faders, the crossfader, EQ and trim, and performance pads for cue points. Most sets are built on two decks, and that's what Ora DJ is tuned for, but it plays four.

Supported controllers

• Pioneer DJ DDJ-400
• Pioneer DJ DDJ-1000
• Pioneer DJ DDJ-1000SRT
• Pioneer DJ DDJ-800
• Pioneer DJ DDJ-FLX4
• Pioneer DJ DDJ-FLX6
• Pioneer DJ DDJ-SB3
• AlphaTheta DDJ-FLX2
• Pioneer DJ DDJ-FLX10
• AlphaTheta DDJ-GRV6

More controller support is on the way.

Connecting

1. Connect your controller via USB before launching Ora DJ, or use Settings → Controller → Rescan if it's already running.
2. Select your device from the controller list.
3. Ora DJ confirms the connection and maps the standard transport controls.

A controller Ora DJ recognizes is also picked as your audio output automatically, so you hear it through the controller without setting anything up. See Audio setup.

Four decks

Ora DJ has four decks, A to D. See Deck views for the 4-Deck Stacked layout.

The DDJ-GRV6 drives all four: LOAD 3 and LOAD 4 load decks C and D, and DECK SELECT flips a physical deck between its two layers, A/C and B/D.

The DDJ-400 and DDJ-FLX4 have LOAD 1 and LOAD 2 only, so they load decks A and B. You can still fill C and D by dragging tracks onto them on screen and mixing them from the four channel mixer.

Knobs pick up where you left them

Turn a physical EQ, trim, or filter knob and it doesn't jump. The knob has to travel to where the on-screen control currently sits before it takes over, so nothing lurches when the two are out of step, after you've moved something with the mouse, say, or switched deck layers. The same applies to the tempo fader.

Browsing your library

The rotary knob browses the track list, and the list scrolls to keep the track you're on in the middle, so you can see what's coming. Press it to move between the sidebar, the library, and the track list. BACK on the GRV6 steps back the other way, and backs out of a folder you've opened. On the DDJ-400 and DDJ-FLX4, hold shift and press the rotary knob to do the same.