MixReadyDescribe the night.Get a set that actually mixes.
MixReady builds DJ sets out of the music you already have — your Beatport collection, your SoundCloud likes, the files on your drive. It sequences them in key and energy, grades every transition, and walks you through playing each one, beat by beat if that's what you need. Ten years in or ten days in.
One sentence in. A playable set out.
No crate-digging session, no spreadsheet of keys. You say what the night is, MixReady does the search and the ordering, and you keep every veto.
Describe it
A prompt, and a few knobs if you want them: length, reference artists, genre, venue, how well-known the picks should be.
120min melodic house, sunset rooftop into peak time — like Adriatique and RÜFÜS DU SOL, nothing too obvious
It builds
Candidates come from your collection, the artists you follow, the reference artists' catalogues and Beatport's charts — filtered by your blacklist. A beam search orders them on Camelot key, energy arc and transitions real DJs have actually played.
You work it out
Hear every transition back-to-back. Open any join in the Transition Lab and move the mix points until it sounds right. Read the step-by-step if you want it. Then push it to Beatport, or write it into rekordbox with the cues already set.
Say it the way you'd say it to a friend
The prompt is the only required field. Everything it can infer — genre, tempo band, energy shape, reference artists — it fills in and shows you, so you can correct it instead of filling a form.
- Must-plays. Pin the tracks you know you're playing. Tell it opener, closer or peak, and the set gets built around them.
- Gear-aware sources. A CDJ-and-USB rig defaults to files you own, because rekordbox can't export streaming tracks to a stick.
- Real genre handling. A curated taxonomy, so "melodic bass" doesn't quietly become Melodic House & Techno — and whatever it picks, you get the genre's description under the field.
- Permanent vetoes. Blacklist a track, artist, label or genre once and it never comes back.
Every transition graded, with the fix
Sequencing is where most set-building tools stop at "same key, similar BPM." MixReady scores the whole run and then tells you, in order, which joins are smooth, which are workable and which are going to bite.
- Key clashes named, not just flagged — 7A→3B, mix bass-out, don't layer melodies.
- The tempo move per transition — 124→121 BPM, a 2.4% nudge down.
- Energy arc against reality — peak time usually sits at 55–80% of a set; you get told when yours doesn't.
- Structural rules — artist spacing, no original and its own remix in the same set.
Open any join and actually play it
Every transition in the set opens into a two-deck mixer running on those two records. Watch the plan drive the faders, EQ and filter in time with the waveform — or take manual control and try it yourself, as many times as you want, with nobody in the room.
- A real channel strip. Trim, three-band EQ, filter, echo, crossfader, riser — with the plan's automation drawn under the waveform as it happens.
- Try any technique on these two records — every move in the catalogue, including ones your gear can't do yet. It changes what you hear, never what the set is taught as.
- The real grid. rekordbox's own beat grid and phrases on files you own, phase-locked, with the drift reported in milliseconds by the last bar.
- Move the mix and it re-plans. Drag a handle — snapping to the bar, ⌥ for a beat, ⇧ for a phrase boundary — and hear it straight back. Save, and the steps, the rekordbox cues and the export all follow.
Built for people who are still learning to mix
Most tools assume you already know what "trade the bass on a phrase boundary" means. MixReady has a whole mode that assumes you don't. Every join becomes a numbered, beat-counted script — which deck, which control, which direction, over how many beats — with a plain line under each step saying why you're doing it.
- The set becomes a practice sheet. Take the joins in play order or hardest first, one at a time, and tick them off. Printable, for the ones you'd rather have on paper.
- This transition's numbers, not generic advice — "tempo 122 → 120, master tempo on", "kill the incoming deck's bass before you start", "come in on the 1 of the next phrase".
- Read it before, not during. The timing crosses into rekordbox as coloured cue points, so you're practising on the decks instead of staring at a screen mid-mix.
- A phrase trainer for counting bars, and plain-English explainers for every term the steps use.
- Nothing is taken away. Flip to Standard when you've outgrown it; same set, plumbing put back.
It learns from sets that were actually played
Feed it 1001tracklists pages and MixReady learns what actually gets played next to what — co-plays, transitions, labels, collaborators. That's the difference between a plausible tracklist and one that reflects how this music is really mixed.
- Transitions carry weight. A join two pros have played beats one that only looks right on paper.
- Tracks that aren't on Beatport still count — they're kept as shadow entries so the sequence adjacency stays true.
- Your own history feeds back. Swap a pick and that artist gets quietly demoted next time.
Including the files on your own drive
MixReady reads your rekordbox library and treats what you own as a first-class source next to Beatport and SoundCloud — with full-length playback, not 2-minute previews.
- Read-only by default. It never modifies an audio file, and only writes to rekordbox when you explicitly ask it to.
- Matching you can trust. Text matches are verified against rekordbox's own BPM, key and duration, so junk tags still match and a different edit never gets mislinked.
- Unmatched files still work. They stay playable and sequenceable on rekordbox's own analysis.
- Your audio never leaves the machine. Only derived features go up — kilobytes per track.
Find the thing you didn't know to search for
Shelves built from your own crate and from rotation data, not from a catalogue's front page — what's next to what you already own, and what's moving in sets right now.
- Start from your library — related tracks anchored on things you already have.
- Trending in rotation — pulled from the tracklists you've ingested, not from a chart.
- Straight into a set. Anything you like goes to must-plays in one click.
Every genre, described in words
46 genres and about 160 named sub-styles, each with a written description, the tempo it actually sits at, where in a night it belongs and who defines it. Beatport publishes no descriptions and an encyclopedia is worse than nothing here — "Mainstage" returns an article about festival stages — so every line of it was written by hand.
- Sub-styles get their own line. "Drum & bass, 170–180" is equally true of liquid, jungle and halftime and tells you nothing about which room you're in. Each one has its own sentence and its own tempo.
- What it sounds like and where it goes are different facts. "Warm, chord-led house" is a description. "Openers and the first hour — it asks a floor to settle rather than to go off" is the part you act on, so it's written separately.
- In the builder, not just the browser. Pick a genre for a set and its description sits under the field — so you're never committing a night to a word you only half-recognise.
- Works on day one. The guide needs no collection, no rotation data and no Beatport token. It's the one page that's already full before you've imported anything.
Melodic House & Techno
118–124 BPMEmotive, arpeggio-led club music at 120–126. Afterlife-adjacent. Nothing to do with melodic bass.
Emotional peak music at a walking tempo. Long builds, an arpeggio that keeps climbing, a breakdown people film.
Drum & Bass
170–180 BPM170–180 BPM breakbeats over heavy sub — spans liquid, neurofunk and jungle.
The 90s original — chopped Amen breaks and a reggae sub, no straight beat.
Amapiano
108–118 BPMSouth African hybrid of deep house and jazz over log-drum basslines — slow, spacious, and unmistakably groovy.
The log drum is the hook. At 112 it takes planning to mix into a house set, which is exactly why it lands so hard when it works.
Three of the 46, written out as the app shows them.
A set you can load, not a list you have to retype
The point of the whole thing is the moment it lands on your gear. Every route out is one menu.
A real playlist
Pushed to your Beatport account, so it streams straight into any LINK-capable DJ app.
Written into your library
Added directly to rekordbox, or exported as XML if you'd rather do the import yourself.
Mix cues already set
The in and out points for each transition, written onto the tracks and waiting on next launch.
Playlist push
The same set as a SoundCloud playlist, for the tracks that live there.
Set player
Hear the whole set as a trailer — every transition back-to-back — before you commit to any of it.
Practice sheet
The whole set as steps — in play order or hardest first. Printable, so you can take it to the decks.
Ten DJs, and you'd be one of them
MixReady is early. The alpha is deliberately small so every piece of feedback actually changes the product — you'll be talking to the person building it. It's free while it lasts, and things will break.
- MachineA Mac. Windows isn't in the alpha.
- BeatportAn account — to pull your collection and push playlists back. LINK only if you want to stream the result.
- rekordboxOptional but recommended. It's how MixReady sees the files you own.
- SoundCloudOptional. Connect it and your likes join the crate.
- TimeAn hour to set up and build your first few sets, then tell me where it's wrong.
The short version
Does it mix for me?
No. MixReady picks the tracks, puts them in an order that works, and tells you how each transition should go. You still play it. It's a set builder, not an auto-DJ.
I'm new to this. Is it for me?
Especially. Beginner mode turns every join into a numbered checklist with this transition's actual numbers in it, and hands the timing to rekordbox as cue points so you're practising on the decks rather than reading a screen. It's a first-class mode, not a stripped-down one.
I don't actually know what half these genre names mean.
Then read them. Every genre in the app has a written description, a tempo window, a note on where in a night it sits, the named sub-styles inside it and the artists who define it — 46 genres, about 160 sub-styles, all curated. It's the one part of MixReady that's useful before you've connected anything.
Does my music get uploaded?
No. Audio never leaves your machine. Only derived features — BPM, key, energy, the phrase grid, mix points — go to the server, and that's kilobytes per track.
Will it touch my rekordbox library or my files?
It reads rekordbox read-only and never modifies an audio file. It writes only when you explicitly choose "Add to rekordbox" or "Write mix cues".
Do I need a Beatport subscription?
You need a Beatport account for your collection and for playlist push. A LINK subscription is only needed if you want to stream those tracks in your DJ app — building from files you own doesn't require it.
What if it picks something I'd never play?
Swap it for a ranked alternative that still fits the neighbours' key and BPM, or blacklist the track, artist, label or genre for good. Swaps are remembered and demote that artist in later builds.
Does it work with music that isn't on Beatport?
Yes — anything in your rekordbox library, including promos and edits. Files that don't match a catalogue track stay fully playable and get sequenced on rekordbox's own BPM and key.
How long does a set take to build?
About a minute, whether it's 60 minutes of music or 180. Pulling your Beatport collection in the first time takes roughly another half-minute, and you only do that once.
What does it cost?
Nothing during the alpha. There's no pricing yet and no card to enter.
Can I practise a transition before I play it?
That's the Transition Lab: a two-deck mixer on those two records. Let the plan drive it, or take manual control and run the move yourself as many times as you like. You can also drag the mix points and hear the result — and what you save rewrites the coaching steps and the rekordbox cues too.
What isn't finished?
Per-pick explanations of why a track was chosen, and the rating loop that feeds a played set's outcome back into what MixReady has learned from rotation, are both still landing. Genre coverage is strongest in house and techno.
Windows? Serato? Traktor?
Not in the alpha. macOS and rekordbox first; the XML export is the escape hatch for other software in the meantime.