DJ Surface is a powerful, lightweight, audio mixing application for the Windows platform. DJ Surface faithfully reproduces the mixing process used by DJ's all over the world. Let your PC or Laptop become an audio surface where you can blend tracks seamlessly. Mix your favourite music together, enjoy mixing, enjoy the mix.
DJ Surface has many features. In this section we will go through these features, showing examples where possible.
Requirements	Trial limitations	Multi channel soundcard	♦ Settings
Track selection	Cueing	Monitoring	Beat matching
EQ	Manual / Cross fading	Recording	Mix safety
♦ The settings area lets you control the soundcard output assignment, control sensitivity, recording options, logging options, licence details and other options. Clicking "Settings" on the uppermost DJ Surface menu opens the settings window. ♦ You are able to select the multi channel soundcard, what channels you want the main mix to go to and what channels you want the monitor to go to. You would connect your speakers to the main mix output, and your headphones to your monitor output. ♦ All aspects of audio sensitivity control can be altered, including the range of EQ adjustment, EQ preset - a one touch way of adjusting the EQ up and down, the maximum and minimum speed adjustment, the divisions between each whole speed change - the more divisions, the finer your control, fingertip control - this is how you gain fingertip control of the track - it is like touching the vinyl or cd platter - a tactile way of adjusting the track speed slightly faster or slower whilst the button is pressed and last but not least the monitor loudness - change the range of the monitor (headphone) loudness to suit your own ear. ♦ The buffer settings allow you to fine tune the length of the audio buffer that DJ Surface uses internally. If you hear sound occasionally breaking up, you can increase the length of the audio buffer. Useful for slower computers. ♦ The recording settings include the quality of the recording in kilo bits per second, kbps, the more kbps - the better the sound quality. When no licence is installed, the quality defaults to the WMA format at 32 kbps which will allow you to hear the mix but wont be the best quality. However, if you are going to listen to your mix on a mobile device, you may want a lower quality recording to save space. Other options include selecting the recording folder and presetting the title and author tags that are embedded within the recording. ♦ The logging settings allow you to enable or disable track logging to a specific folder. This is usefull if you need to automatically create a tracklisting. Perhaps you have a public performance licence and need to know what tracks you have played in public. ♦ If you purchase a licence, you enter it here. It removes the 20 minute per session mix limitation and allows you to record at higher bit rates (kbps). ♦ Other options allow you to enable processing with 32 bit audio streams, save the rendered waveforms to disk to allow faster loading next time round, allow you to see errors, if they occur and to automatically check for updates or display Quick Help when you start DJ Surface. ♦ By default, DJ Surface uses 16 bit audio streams to provide better soundcard driver compatibility.