Recommended: DeckaBridge for AudioCubes

Our application to use AudioCubes with the Deckadance DJ software is called DeckaBridge. Deckadance is a professional digital DJ software by Image-Line, the creators of FL Studio.

Deckabridge connects your AudioCubes with Deckadance and lets you control two DJ decks. The software can be connected to Deckadance without complicated MIDI mapping.

The mappings were made by Deckadance users at Percussa so you can simply load them. You can use pairs of cubes to control the relooper beat slicer in Deckadance or use standalone cubes to control FX. You can also control loops and the transport of Deckadance.

Hands on control over loop points

AudioCubes sensors can be setup in Deckabridge to detect the proximity of your hands. These trigger signals can be used to enable or disable loop points. You can even change the loop length using the cube faces. By doing this you can quickly bring in and out a loop while you are DJing.

Transport without platters

The Deckabridge panels can be set to control the transport of Deckadance. You have control over the CUE button and the seek forward/backwards buttons. This way it’s possible to stop the track and seek forward and backwards in it, using your hands and the faces of the AudioCubes. This is especially useful for minor adjustments as the sensors are very sensitive.

Helpful visual feedback

Colours can be set on the AudioCubes to help you remember which cube is mapped to which functionality in Deckadance. This way of keeping an overview of your setup is very handy in practice. The cubes let you work with parameters and essential controls of your DJ software without having to stare at the screen.

More than X-Y effect parameter control

Using the AudioCubes sensors, you have control over various effect sessions of your Deckadance setup.

For example, you can control the low-mid-high frequency sliders of the EQ section of the decks, or you can control the X-Y effect section on the decks. You can choose which cube controls what on which deck – so there’s a lot of flexibility on how you want to setup things.

Controlling effects through interacting with AudioCubes using your hands is very satisfying – there is no mechanical force working against your hand as there is with a knob. The AudioCubes sees your hand using optics and samples it at quite a fast rate. You can change effect parameters this way much faster than you could with turning a knob.

Because each AudioCube has multiple sensors ( 4 per cube) you can control multiple parameters of your effects simultaneously and in real time (4 to be precise), which is not very easy to do using a knob box without recording automation in a MIDI sequencer.

Slicing with cube pairs

Last but not least, you can use Deckabridge and AudioCubes to control the Relooper beat slicer in Deckadance. You have control over the mode of the relooper on both decks and can step through various Relooper patterns using the cubes.

You can take advantage of these possibilities by setting up cubes in sender – receiver pairs. By changing the sender cube’s location and by changing its orientation you can control the various settings of the Relooper.

The relooper is a unique feature. Not a lot of DJ software offers this, and it’s great to quickly create unique loops from your tracks. With AudioCubes, you have the perfect tool to control it.

Plays nice with other MIDI controllers and Vinyl

If you are already using some timecode vinyl or MIDI controllers with deckadance, it’s good to know that the AudioCubes will play nice with the rest of your setup. The data between the Deckabridge and Deckadance software is MIDI, and you can easily setup MIDI ports in Deckadance to bring in AudioCubes functionality.

Advanced MIDI mappings with AudioCubes

If you have other MIDI compatible software you’d like to use AudioCubes with, you can use our MIDIBridge application. This lets you generate different kinds of MIDI data which you can send to your software or hardware instruments.

If you are looking for advanced ways to map AudioCubes using MIDI to your DJ software, you might also be interested in MIDIBridge. In particular, MIDIBridge supports a MIDI clock input for controlling the colours of AudioCubes, which you might be able to use if your software sends a MIDI clock signal. If you have a drum machine like an Elektron Machinedrum, you could also send the clock from this machine to the AudioCubes.

Great speed, accuracy and user experience

The application itself talks directly to the AudioCubes hardware for tight synchronization and rock solid performance (we use USB HID which gives us a 1kHz update rate and 10 bit resolution, so much better than MIDI).

We developed the latest version in C++ with help of the JUCE toolkit, and it looks and works exactly the same on both Mac and PC.

We’ve made the application as easy to use as possible, so you won’t be clicking through a series of drop down menus and option menus to find what you need. It’s all there in one screen with clear layout.

More Info

• You can read more about Deckabridge on the application’s main page here.
• If you want to get detailed information about Deckabridge you can read the manual here on our Wiki.
• If you want to download Deckabridge you can do so on the downloads page. All AudioCubes software is free, and we offer lifetime free upgrades to software.
• If you have questions, please send us an email. We’re really happy to help you out and offer you our advice.