&Amp; Djay launches on the iPhone, Upgrades on iPad-Mashable

&Amp; Djay, the groundbreaking Mac app from Algoriddim featured in a recent iPad commercial, was only available on both sides of the iOS platform — and also got a major update to the iPad version.

The $ 9.99 app turns your iPhone 4 or iPhone 3gs in a few mixing decks. Load up of songs from your iTunes music library, and you can beat sync, scratch and transition between songs like a pro. You can also use your genius mix recording and as a high-quality AIFF file export.

Both iPhone and iPad versions of & djay are surprisingly similar to the $ 49.99 desktop version of the software, which is used by professional and amateur DJs alike, and Macworld awarded the highest rating.

An important feature that iOS, however both versions lack: the ability to lock in the key of a song. Match the BPMs of numbers on the vastly different tempos, and you are in the row that will start to either warbly or sound a bit baritone.

As for the Mac & djay automatically beat matches numbers, it is able to do this without the key either tune. It is a magical feature that can, in this writer's experience, DJ-ing a party almost scarily easy.

Algoriddim of head of product development, Frederik Seiffert, says that nearly impossible on the current iPhone and the first generation iPad hardware beat matching key-locked. "But we consider doing it for the iPad 2 when we see one," says Seiffert.

Algoriddim is based in Munich, Germany, where the iPad 2 is not available until the end of the month.

In the meantime, the company is no slouch on the front of the iPad. At the same time as it launched its iPhone app, it also released a free upgrade to the $ 20 iPad app, with enough that it can also be denoted by & djay 1.5 new features.

Scratches on the rotating disk with two fingers instead of one, and & djay will ensure that your scratch takes for a precise number of beats. And the crane of a couple of fingers, the app will loop a single measure of the track over and over. Again, it understands the rhythm and will ensure that the loop is accurate, so you don't have to (unless you want). Call it the T-Pain app for DJs.

Gone are the "out of memory" messages that plagued the iPad app in its original iteration. I've been testing on the iPad 2, where it runs faster than ever and gives the Mac version a serious run for its money. You can even pre-cue, IE. Listen to your next song without disturbing the party, with the help of a pair of jacks from Radio Shack.

As soon as it adds the ability to lock in keys for numbers, there will be little that the iPad version is missing. The same applies to the iPhone version — although we'll probably have to wait till iPhone 5 or 6 for the hardware.

The iPhone app is still best in its class, even without those new iPad features. In short, there is no excuse for road trips too bad that DJ would ever again.

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