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DJ effects in the Music FX Live software
The Music FX Live software can produce any effect that you may need as a home or professional DJ. The main advantage of the program lies in the effects. You are sure to find in it the effects that allow you to compose truly unique and PROFESSIONAL DJ sets.
We have created a selection to present the best and most exciting effects in the form of a video. You can find all these effects in the Music FX Live software.
The 19 best and most exciting DJ effects at work
1. Flanger
This may be one of the best known effects: you are sure to have heard it before. It owes its popularity with DJs to the fact that its characteristic sound can be applied well to almost any type of music.
The sound produced by this effect best resembles the take-off of a jet plane. It is most suited to music with many high notes.
2. Phaser
It is somewhat similar to the Flanger effect, since they both operate on the same principle. It is most suited to music with many high notes.
3. Low-Pass Filter
This effect filters out high notes, or - from a different perspective - lets through low notes only. You can set the frequency at which the cut should happen, that is, the range of low notes in the music that you want to let pass.
This effect is used in a lot of tracks, mostly before, during and after breakdowns. "Breakdowns" are the "chill" parts of the music without a kick drum, when you don't hear the high notes either, only the melody.
4. High-Pass Filter
This is the opposite of the Low-Pass Filter in that it only lets high notes pass and filters out the low ones.
5. Band-Pass Filter
This is a combined Low and High Pass Filter that retains only a central frequency band from the music and filters out the rest. The best way of using it is to set a relatively narrow frequency band, then turn the knob upwards, from the low notes toward the high ones; this way only a given frequency band can be heard from the music. Naturally, you can also start from the high notes, turning the knob downwards.
6. Formant Filter
This effect imitates vowels, that is, the a, e, i, o, u sounds as if they were being "pronounced" in the music. It is often used for drum&bass and dubstep style mixes.
7. Delay
This is the classic echo effect, with decay. What is decay? A typical case of decay is when you talk into the microphone and after about half a second you can hear your own voice again, only softer this time. After another half a second, you will hear it again, even more softly, until the echo fades away completely (in technical terms, this is known as decay).
8. Reverb
The official name of this effect is reverberator, but in everyday use it is simply referred to as "echo". However, this is a different sort of echo from delay. Its most appreciate description would be "hall echo". The effect is similar to shouting in a large hall and hearing your own voice reverberate for another couple of seconds.
9. Synth
Instead of changing the original sound, this effects mixes various "synth-like" sounds on top of it. You can select the timbre you think best matches the music, and play it at different pitches. The sounds are looped: they keep playing until you turn them off.
10. Vocoder
This is one of the most interesting effects, best suited to the human voice. When you choose a synth-like sound, this effects changes the original music or speech to the sound you have chosen, as if the synthesizer has started "talking".
This effect has been used in music since the '70s: one of the first to make use of it were Kraftwerk. In music, the vocoder effect is used mainly to distort human speech, resulting in an interesting, robot-like sound.
11. Pitch Shifter
This effect changes the pitch of the sound. You can use it to change the pitch of the captured audio by +/- 100%, that is, make it an octave higher or lower, with any precision and transition level you choose.
It can be used for music, as well, but the best way to use it is to talk into the microphone and make your voice sound high or low, changing it constantly, if you wish.
12. Grain Shifter
When you turn on this effect, it first grabs a very short sample from the music, repeats it several times, then repeats another sample, and so on. If you apply it to human speech instead of music, you can obtain an interesting, robot-like sound.
13. Sampler
You can use this effect to record a brief sample from the music or from your microphone, which you can then play back in various ways. You can set the tempo, direction, pitch, start and end position of the sample.
14. Looper
This is basically a combination of the Grain Shifter and Sampler effects. When you activate this effect, a predefined length of sample is recorded from the music, which the program starts repeating right after the recording ends, up until you turn the effect off.
The recording is adjusted to the beat and you must also define the length of the recording in number of beats, for example 1/2, 1, 2, 4. If a 4-beat sample is being played back, and you select a 1-beat length, then first the program records a 1-beat sample from the music, starting the repeat function only afterwards.
15. Gate
With this effect, you can change the volume of the music extremely fast (as if you were turning the volume knob up and down – but with the difference that this way the change could be 10x-100x faster).
This effect sounds best if the volume is switched on and off to the beat of the music (every full, half or quarter beat).
16. Ring Modulator
This effect creates incredibly fast volume changes in the music, which you practically no longer can hear; what you hear instead is a change in the timbre of the music to an interesting droning-whistling sound. By constantly changing the parameters you can obtain very interesting mid to high notes. It is almost impossible to explain this effect in words, it has to be heard!
17. Frequency Shifter
This effect turns low notes (of the base drum, for example) into mid notes, mid notes into high notes, or vice versa - in other words it shifts the frequencies in the music up or downwards, creating very interesting results in the process.
This effect is not the same as the Pitch Shifter! While Pitch Shifter actually changes the pitch, the Frequency Shifter only shifts the frequency, with entirely different results.
18. Decimator
This effect artificially diminishes the sound quality. The higher up you turn the knob associated with this effect, the noisier the music will get, generating a curious effect.
19. Distortion
This is the classical distorter, mainly used by bands to give the electric guitar a hard, heavy metal sound.
As a DJ you can also use it to give the music a rougher edge for a few seconds.