Two decks.
Two places
around your head.
Azimuth is a DJ instrument for the browser where position is something you play. Leave one record orbiting behind the listener, bring the other in from dead ahead, and run the handover through space as well as across the crossfader.
Open Decks- Free to use
- No account
- Your audio never leaves your device
Headphones on. Drag the dot anywhere around your head, then press play.
Drag the dot, or use the sliders above. It's front-left, mid distance.
A deck that does the whole job.
Waveforms split into low, mid and high bands so you can see the drop coming. Platters that take two hands at once. Key lock that survives a scratch, hot cues, beat loops, EQ kills, split cue, tempo and key matching, MIDI learn. Then a spatial field sitting in the middle of the mixer, which is the part no other deck has.
Load. Mix. Move.
Load
Drop two files straight from your machine onto the decks. Tempo, key and the waveform bands are analysed in the browser, so the track is ready in seconds and never leaves the device.
Mix
Cue, loop, scratch, EQ and blend the way you would on any decent pair of decks, with a keyboard, a touchscreen or a MIDI controller.
Move
Give each deck a route around the listener: an orbit, four compass holds, a fly-by through the head, scattered jumps. Lock the lap to the beat and the movement lands with the phrase.
There is a fourth thing, if you want it. Ghost records a set as the performance rather than the audio, every scratch, fader move and spatial path timestamped, then plays it back through the live decks. Take over mid-set and hand it back whenever you like; its clock kept running underneath, so it carries on from where it had reached. Meet Ghost
Three instruments that feed the decks.
Build a beat or a chord, bounce it onto a deck without saving and re-importing a file, or hand a finished track to Orbiter and draw where it travels.
Orbiter
Draw the path a track takes: distance, height, holds, accents and Doppler. Compare it against the original, then export a lossless WAV rendered on your own machine.
Drums
Six voices, sequenced the way a drum machine always has been, then placed. Keep the kick in front, send the snare somewhere else, let the hats orbit.
Synth
Low notes to one side, high notes to the other. Play a chord and the notes fan out around you instead of stacking up in the middle.
There is also a piano, plucked strings and themulti-screen live rig.
Setups you can copy tonight.
The handover orbit, the through-head fly-by, four-corner percussion. Each one is a reproducible recipe using shipped controls: the exact settings, the route it draws and what it does to the mix.
See the examples