Want complete control over your mashups? Our brand-new Mashup Mode lets you place tracks and samples anywhere on a free-form canvas, giving you total creative freedom!
DJ.Studio started as a powerful tool for creating DJ mixes, with a timeline editor with two decks and transition windows. However, with the introduction of Stem Separation, DJ.Studio also became a great tool for creating mashups. But we realized that some features designed for mixing—like transition windows—weren’t really needed for mashups and could even be confusing.
That’s why we built Mashup Mode! Instead of a DJ timeline, you now have a flexible workspace where you can freely arrange and layer audio without constraints. This video shows you how to works or read the information below.
When you now create a new project in DJ.Studio, you can choose if you want to make a DJ mix or a mashup. The Studio will look and work different based on that choice.
When creating a new project, you can now choose between “DJ Mix” or “Mashup” mode.
DJ Mix Mode keeps the traditional timeline with transitions and automation.
Mashup Mode gives you a free canvas to place and edit tracks however you like.
The interface adapts based on your choice.
Difference between Mashup Mode and DJ Mixes
With DJ mixing, you have a playlist with lots of tracks, you transition from one song to the other and DJ.Studio can help you to harmonize your playlist based on key and BPM.
When making a mashup, you want a free canvas, where you can place each element wherever you want.
In Mashup mode:
You can use the whole canvas.
There is no playlist; the canvas is one huge track.
You have 1 master lane, instead of 2. That 1 Master lane dictates the tempo. The tempo lane will reflect the tempo of any track or sample placed in here.
You have 4 sample lanes, no voice-over lane.
There are no transition windows between tracks. You can freely add tracks and drag them around.
Samples are not linked to any track, so if you drag the track in the master lane, the samples that were below that track will not move with it.
You can only export to audio or video, not to playlist or any other platforms.
Mashups cannot be side-loaded into DJ mixes. If you want to use the mashup in a DJ mix, you need to export your mashup as an audio file and then upload it as a new track in your DJ mix project.
Difference between Legacy Mashup projects and NEW Mashup projects
Until Feb 7 2025, you could create a mashup project like this: You created a mix project and when saving your project for the first time, you could save it as a mashup.
Those mashup projects could be loaded into other DJ.Studio Mix projects.
The new Mashup projects can't be loaded into other Mix projects because the timeline works in a totally different way now for Mashup and DJ mix projects.
So that's why you will see a Your Mashups area on the Home screen, with
Mashup: mashup projects that work via the mashup timeline ( free canvas) and can only be exported as a separate audio file.
Mashup ( legacy) : mashup projects that work via the mixing timeline and can be loaded into other projects. It is not possible to add these types of projects anymore.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about Mashup mode
I have the Studio one-time license. Why can't I use Mashup mode?
The Mashup mode is not available within the Studio one-time license because making mashups requires Sample lanes and adding automations. Those features are not available in the Studio license.
When will the DJ.Studio team add the option to Mashup mode to export mashups to Ableton?
The DJ.Studio will add the option to export mashups to Ableton when all the features in mashup mode work like expected. First we want to make sure Mashup mode is perfect, before we make it possible to export your mashup to Ableton.
In Mashup mode, is there a way move tracks and samples as a batch?
Yes, in Mashup mode there is a way to move tracks and samples as a batch.
You can select a batch of elements in your Mashup by following the steps below:
Pressing the Shift key on your keyboard
Click the mouse in the grey background of, for example, the master lane.
Drag the mouse to the right bottom of the screen to select all the elements. You will see that all the headers of the selected items become yellow.
Grab one of the yellow headers and drag all of the selected elements to the left or to the right at once.
You can unselect the elements by selecting another element by clicking on the header.
Can AI make an entire mashup?
DJ.Studio's AI algorithms cannot make an entire mashup for you. DJ.Studio is a tool that can help you to make a great mashup.
Create a new mashup project
You add the tracks
You choose the parts that you want to mashup
You apply the stem separation
Copy vocals, move them to other tracks
Mute the corresponding stems
Export your mashup