Deck views
Ora DJ shows the decks six ways, from a single player to four stacked decks. Switch with the view menu or press V to cycle.
The deck area above your library changes shape depending on what you're doing. Ora DJ has six views, and you pick the one that suits the job: two decks for a transition, four for a longer rehearsal, one for prepping a track.
The six views
| View | What it's for |
|---|---|
| 2-Deck Stacked | Two decks with their zoom waveforms stacked one above the other, so you can line up the beats by eye. The default. |
| 2-Deck Side | Two decks side by side, each with its own waveform. |
| 4-Deck Stacked | Four decks and a four channel mixer. See Four decks below. |
| 1-Deck Player | A single deck, full width. |
| 1-Deck Track Prep | A single deck with the beatgrid, cue, and phrase editors. See Track Prep. |
| Stem Studio | Splits a track into four stems. See Stem Studio. |
Switching views
Three ways, whichever is closest to hand:
- The view button in the app header, which shows the current view's name.
- The View menu in the macOS menu bar.
- Press V to cycle: 2-Deck Stacked, 2-Deck Side, 4-Deck Stacked, 1-Deck Player, 1-Deck Track Prep, then back to the start.
Stem Studio is not in the V cycle. Pick it from the view button or the View menu.
Your choice is remembered across restarts. Ora DJ starts on 2-Deck Stacked the first time.
Two views take the deck area over. The Duplicates view always shows the 1-Deck Player while you're in it, then hands your view back when you leave. The Archive view has no decks at all, so the view button is grayed out and reads "Not available in this view".
Four decks
4-Deck Stacked gives you decks A, B, C, and D. Four is the limit.
The four zoom waveforms stack in one block at the top, sharing a zoom level, so you can read all four against each other. Below them sit the four decks: A above C on the left, B above D on the right, with a four channel mixer between the columns. The mixer strips run C, A, B, D left to right, matching the channel order on a controller.
The decks here are condensed to fit. They keep the overview waveform, the transport, and the tempo fader, and they leave out the hot cue grid, the loop row, and the per deck zoom waveform. For those, switch to a two deck view.
Press Space to drop into compact view, which lays the four decks out as a 2x2 grid without the mixer or the stacked waveforms.
Loading decks C and D
Double-clicking a track in the library always loads deck A, whichever view you're in. To reach C and D:
- Drag a track from the list onto the C or D deck. If that deck was already playing, the new track keeps playing. If it wasn't, it loads paused.
- On a DDJ-GRV6, press LOAD 3 or LOAD 4, or use DECK SELECT to flip a physical deck between its two layers (A/C and B/D).
The DDJ-400 and DDJ-FLX4 only have LOAD 1 and LOAD 2, so they can load decks A and B but not C and D. You can still fill C and D by dragging tracks onto them, then mix all four from the on screen mixer.