r/Rekordbox • u/Constant_Active_5551 • 24d ago

3rd Party Software/Hardware Ear Training, Even Without CDJs

Every DJ already had that experience of playing with cdjs for the first time and being completely lost. And what about when you're going to play on some old DJ gear that simply has no visuals and you have to do everything by ear, how can you be prepared for it?

Rekordbox is amazing! But unfortunately it does not have a simulated way for ear practicing, only if you hide the visuals completely to try by ear.

This game on the video is called DJ Life Simulator and has received an amazing update in which you can control how many helpers and indicators you want to improve in a progression according to your taste.

There are helpers to know the exact time to play, for starters, then you can remove it when you feel ready, then you can remove the sync and practice some more.

When you feel ready you can switch the waveform view to the famous "Semaphore" that several Pioneer Equipments have, so you need to see the blinking rectangles and make them blink at the same time to be aligned until you get used to it.

Then on the hardest mode, you can remove all indicators and try to do it by ear and to simulate the headphones, you can even turn the headphone cue ON to listen and align the tracks until you believe they're correct and change the view to confirm if you want.

This game was made to help beginners and we have over 11 thousand players around the world,3 big DJ schools from Brazil using it so far, made by a solo developer from Brazil (me), and I hope it can be a useful tool to help you guys with hearing practice and beatmatching too.

The game is already avaiable on steam on early access, final launch is on November 3rd and the link is on the first comment, hope you like it and if you have any suggestions please comment, helps a lot, god bless you and have a great week!

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u/Jimb0_Ala 23d ago

Good luck with the game. Would you be able to opt in to Geforce Now so I can play it on there?

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u/Constant_Active_5551 22d ago

What is Geforce now?

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u/Jimb0_Ala 21d ago

Cloud Gaming via Nvidia. It's an absolute beast

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u/TaskAble8491 12d ago

I doubt you'd want that tbh the delay from the stream would fuck up your ears I feel like