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hi this is Trent we'll be with the verge and we are here in Austin Texas with Jim Mazur from Native Instruments hi Jim Trent and what have you got to show us today yeah what I have to show you is basically Traktor DJ which was only on the iPad to begin with we now have Traktor DJ for the iPhone excellent excellent how things changed scaling down to the smaller screen well basically in terms of the capabilities of the software everything is pretty much one-to-one so the iPhone version isn't in any way less powerful than the iPad it's really just about how we brought this interface down to the smaller screen we actually thought to really keep the the same size and real estate that you have for interacting with the wave display and move it down to the iPhone yeah so essentially you have two decks as you do an iPad version let me just get a song loaded here you can bring the browser and by tapping the album art so here I'll just go to my songs you get the same kind of pain based structure that we have an iPad version mm-hmm so here you can see the wave display and you have kind of this one deck focus which lets you have all the same kind of cool interactions that you have on the iPad just scratching the sound freeze mode stuff bleeping and when you want to go to the other deck you have also on the left-hand side this kind of navigation slider so as I pull this down basically I slide between my decks so I keep it in the center I have basically both decks if I pull all the way down now I'm on deck B so in this case although the song is taking me immediately to the recommendations so it's just giving me a bunch of tracks that will play well with what the song that I have loaded in the same BPM range and hearing yes yeah exactly so now I've selected this song I can see this little a indicator flashing saying that I have something on my a deck so I load into B okay it's there we can set like a loop maybe let's just hand back see bolt and it's just the same VPN detection software that's in the larger version and exactly the same the same exact quality key detection as well so what you can do is let's just slide up to decade and when I tap these I bring in my effects and filter controls or eq's and filters so in this case I can XY yeah if folks are finding that the DCM is not thinking where they wanted to think I'm can people actually change cue points here or any bit an external software is that possible no it's it's super easy to do in that map basically here I'm on the intro so it's it sounds all good I mean sometimes you have tracks with more like quiet subtle intros where you can't really tell if the one is there in this case I'll just slide up in my secret editor panel and then I can just grab the local view and slide about and basically I see that the transients are all sticking in the same place so I have a really high confidence and when I bring this track in it's gonna be on B so let's drop it on there gotcha is this gonna be available for and the smaller screened iOS devices or is it strictly an iPhone 5 and larger its iPhone 4 and iPhone 5 so yeah it will cover the older screens as well I guess my one question is why didn't you do this sooner we didn't want to be the first we wanted to be the first to do it really right or as close as we think native instruments aren't stands for certain quality and our customers really are professional DJs and they'll hold us to basically those standards how have you learned from the experience you guys have already had with track DJ for iPad to sort of work on this and bring the features into this one screen I mean the iPad version hasn't been out so long but so I can't really say that we we learned so much in terms of like what people were saying other than just the response of people really getting what we try to bring out with the iPad version in terms of directly working with the wave display and using that it's the kind of portal into your into your track do you have any sort of plans for interaction between different devices or is that sort of on your outlook we've thought about it I mean I think the whole audio syncing like Layton sees we obviously want to keep everything like as close to real-time as possible that's that's one challenge we don't we won't have anything in the first version but I think this whole notion of just having your devices in your pocket and especially amongst DJ's it's I can definitely see that coming in the future so attractive DJ for iPhone is in the App Store today mm-hmm what are we looking at as far as price yeah it's gonna be $4.99 it's it's gonna be a separate app just for the iPhone okay so here you already have Traktor DJ for iPad this is a separate Buy mm-hm and it's probably well worth the price yeah and it's a great I mean also if you just want to try it out it's it's much cheaper than the iPad version Jim thanks very much for sharing this is awesome it's that one of those days I've been waiting for for actually quite a long time awesome always a pleasure