Welcome to DJ.Studio 5.0

You no longer pick a beatgrid type yourself. The Smart Beatgrid adapts to the track. Beat detection and first-beat detection have both been significantly improved.

The Smart beatgrid will find the first beat with much more accuracy and follow the beats through the whole track when you have tracks with drifting grids.

Learn more: Understanding Tempo, BPM, and Beat Grids in DJ.Studio. If a grid is off, you can still correct it by hand: see Fixing Beat-Grid Issues.

DJ.Studio now supports more than 3 sample lanes; you can add up to 10 lanes, making it easier for you to organize your mashup or mix projects.

Just drag samples to the bottom part of the Studio to add more sample lanes or click the + button at the front.

Right mouse click on a lane to resize, color, pin and move the lanes to your liking.

To make room for all these lanes, we now have a scrollable studio where lanes keep their full height instead of being squeezed onto one screen.

Use your scroll wheel to scroll up and down and hold ⌘/Ctrl while scrolling to zoom the timeline or vice versa.

You can also use the dropdown in the top right corner to change the way all the lanes are shown in one click.

Changed zoom behavior

In DJ.Studio 5.0, the Studio lanes are now scrollable. This gives more room for the expanded number of Sample lanes.

As a result, the default zoom and scroll controls have changed. If you prefer the previous behavior, you can restore it:

This lets you scroll and zoom the Studio the same way you did before 5.0.
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Learn more: Samples, Studio View and Sample Lanes.

DJ.Studio now has its own phrase detection algorithm. When you add tracks, they are analyzed into phrases like intros, verses, choruses, buildups and drops. This helps you understand the structure of the music and find better mix in/out locations. Harmonize also uses it to place your transitions on intros and outros. See more about that in the Harmonize section.

When you drag tracks within transitions, it will snap to the phrases.

You can also right-click a phrase to edit, split, delete or change its type.

In DJ.Studio 5.0, phrase detection is on by default.

Mixed in Key energy segment analysis is now disabled by default. To turn it back on, go to Settings > Libraries > Mixed in Key > Settings. If you would rather use rekordbox phrases, turn off DJ.Studio's own phrase detection at Settings > Interface > Phrases.

Learn more: Phrase Detection in DJ.Studio.

Tracks can now also be ordered on descending tempo, perfect for late-night sets where the energy needs to go down.

But the biggest change is where transitions start and end. Until now, DJ.Studio chose the mix-in and mix-out points by counting a number of bars from the start and end of each track. Now that DJ.Studio has its own phrase detection, Harmonize knows where the intro and outro of each track are. It mixes your tracks on overlapping intros and outros, for long, natural blends.

The Harmonize wizard is redesigned and now has 3 steps: Key mixing, Order and Transitions. We've also added a "Save these settings for next time" option, so your transition preferences carry over to your next Harmonize run, or when you add new tracks.

Also note the setting in the Studio under the eye icon, where you can enable "snap to transition to phrases" when you drag tracks within a transition.

Learn more: Harmonize (previously Automix) and Phrase Detection in DJ.Studio.

Lots of changes in the library for easier browsing, searching, filtering and managing, with more track info.

DJ.Studio now also helps you to manage your playlists in your favorite music libraries from within DJ.Studio. You can create/edit/delete playlists and add/remove tracks from playlists in rekordbox, Serato, Traktor, Engine DJ, Virtual DJ and Mixed in Key.

Watch folders: point DJ.Studio at a folder on your machine, and new tracks are added immediately to your DJ.Studio library, metadata is imported and the track is already used when suggesting tracks in the Solver.

Learn more: Music Library. Connecting your other software: rekordbox, Serato, Traktor, Engine DJ, Virtual DJ and Mixed In Key.

With DJ.Studio 5.0 we have redesigned the app interface across Home, Library, Add Tracks, Studio, Harmonize, Tracklist, Samples, Extensions, Settings, Export and most dialogs.

We added a new dark and light mode, where light mode isn't fully polished yet.

You can also change the interface scale at Settings > Interface. So if you like to have the texts bigger, set the interface scale to Large.

As an example of a redesigned screen, we show you the new Settings screen, where we also added a search in the top left corner, so you can find an option without going through all the screens.

Learn more: Settings Menu.

You can now place markers on the studio timeline to mark spots you want to come back to.

Turn them on in two places: Settings > Interface > Enable Markers, and the eye icon in the top right corner of the Studio for each project. See [Markers] for details.

Double-click in the timeline to add a marker or press F8, add your note and color code them.

See all the markers in your project and click to quickly jump to that spot in your mix.

One search bar for all of DJ.Studio. You'll find it at the top of Home.

Find projects, tracks and artists across your library in one place. Type the name of a setting to jump straight to it, without digging through the Settings screen. Press Enter to run a full search through your projects.

The Home screen has redesigned project details and a different left-hand navigation.

When you click on a project, it opens immediately; the right mouse click shows you an extended drop-down menu.

Learn more: Studio View.

When you zoom into the beat grid, you will now see RGB waveforms, making it easier to read the audio.

First check "Where did it go?" at the top of this article. If the problem is still there: