The DAW built for DJ sets.

01.1

From your DAW. To your decks.

That edit you've been working on? Bring it with you. QNTZ connects your studio sessions to your next set.

• Ableton .als (⌘⇧I / Ctrl+Shift+I): clips, warps, tempo automation, volume and EQ envelopes, and fades.
• DAWproject from Bitwig, Cubase, or Studio One: the same.
• FL Studio .flp: the playlist's audio clips, track names and colors, and tempo.
• Or drag audio files in. BPM and key are analyzed as they land.
• Sets export back out as DAWproject, so you can take them back to your DAW.

02.1

See the bigger picture.

Arrange tracks on a timeline. Fix beatgrids, shape the energy, and hear how it all fits before you reach the booth.

• Put the playhead on the real downbeat and press ⌘↓ / Ctrl+↓. Bar 1 moves there and the whole grid follows.
• Or right-click the clip → Edit Grid and drag the red downbeat line onto the kick.
• Every clip keeps its own grid, so fixing one track never moves another.
• The export writes your grid, so the players show the same grid you set.

02.2

A little edit. A whole new feeling.

Chop, layer, and turn your ideas into edits and mashups. Bounce them into playable tracks, then come back and change your mind.

• Select the clips and press ⌘G / Ctrl+G to bracket them into a named edit.
• ⌘J / Ctrl+J consolidates them into one rendered clip in place, at one fixed BPM.
• Choose what gets baked in: EQ moves, volume, and fades.
• Changed your mind? Unconsolidate from the edit's menu puts the original clips back. Tweak, then consolidate again.
• On export, every edit is bounced to its own file and goes on the USB as a track.

02.3

Transition FX

Echo, delay, and reverb outs rendered into the track. The tail sounds the same on the players as it does in QNTZ, so your mixes come out clean live.

• Highlight the end of a clip (a beat, half a bar, a bar), right-click, and pick Transition FX → Delay, Reverb, or Echo.
• The highlight sets the repeat time: highlight one beat and it repeats every beat.
• Pick a 2, 4, or 8 bar tail and it renders straight away.
• Delay repeats drop the low end, so the tail doesn't muddy the next track's bass.
• The clip and its tail become one rendered clip, so it exports and plays like any track.

02.4

Good tracks. Great transitions.

Set your cues, sculpt your EQ, and find the mix that clicks. Get the tricky parts right before the lights go down.

• H drops a hot cue, M a memory cue. 1–8 set pads A–H directly.
• ⇧H / Shift+H puts the same hot cue on every stacked track under the cursor, so a double or a chop starts from one pad.
• L drops a hot loop, ⇧L / Shift+L a memory loop, over the highlight (or 4 bars).
• Drag a loop's end tab to repeat it on the timeline and hear it before you play it.
• Hot cues, memory cues, and loops export to CDJ, Denon, and Serato as real cues and loops.

02.5

Riddim chops

Check how riddim chops sound, and whether they'll hold up on CDJs, before the tracks go in the playlist.

• Stack two to four tracks, highlight a range across them, and press ⇧C / Shift+C.
• You get a step grid, one row per deck. Click a step to open that deck alone; ⇧ / Shift-click adds a second.
• Or press Tap and play the pattern live on 1–4 while it plays.
• The checker tells you if every deck lands on its own bar 1 and how much stretch each one needs.
• Stack cue at start puts one hot cue on every deck, so the chop starts from a single pad.

03 — PLAY IT LIVE

Mix it live. Keep the mix.

Live mode puts two decks that work like a pair of CDJs next to your library. Mix on screen or on your controller, and record what you play. Record to Timeline turns that mix into a set you can edit.

• A new layout: KEY and BEAT JUMP in large type beside the waveforms, and a card per deck with the remaining time, the overview and a BPM box.
• Beat FX reads like the mixer's screen, with an ON that pulses on the beat. Sound Color FX are lit tiles. All 23 effects from the XDJs.
• Name your hot cues. Each deck card lists them, and a named cue's pad shows its name.
• A MASTER knob and meter on the mixer, like a DJM's. Recordings are taken before it.
• Half or Full waveforms (⌘⌥W / Ctrl+Alt+W), and sidebars you can drag to the width you want.
• SYNC locks the beat, the pads and loops work like a CDJ's, and XDJ and DDJ controllers map themselves when you plug them in. REC (⌘⌥R / Ctrl+Alt+R) records your mix.

The XDJ-RR and XDJ-AZ are tested on real hardware. The other controller maps come from AlphaTheta's published MIDI charts. What's new in 1.2.0 →

04.1

One USB. All your hard work.

Export for CDJs, Denon, or Serato. Your tracks, playlists, grids, and cues come along. No extra library software required.

• ⌘⇧U / Ctrl+Shift+U opens the export. Pick one or more formats per stick.
• CDJ & XDJ: CDJ-2000/3000, CDJ-3000X, XDJ-1000/RX, XDJ-AZ, OPUS-QUAD, OMNIS-DUO.
• Denon: Prime 4, SC6000, SC Live, and the other Engine OS players. Serato: a crate named after the set.
• The playlist in set order, with hot cues, memory cues, loops, and beatgrids.
• Edits are bounced in, tracks are copied player-safe, and the stick is checked for space first.