Know Your Crate

1. CDJs. Turntables. The house decks. None of them know your music.
2. Deckie knows your crate. It hears what’s playing. It names the song, reads the pitch, and shows what could come next.
3. Know the beat. Nail the mix. Then the name, Deckie, and the line Know Your Crate.
4. Deckie Desk, on your Mac. Desk reads your crate and writes a crate file: tempo, key, bars, style and fingerprints. Edits, bootlegs and burned CDs too. No audio goes in the file.
5. Sort your crate into discs and folders, in the order your player shows them. Send the file to your iPad by AirDrop, iCloud Drive or Files. No server.
6. Deckie Booth, on your iPad. Put the iPad by the decks and press play. A song shows up after a few seconds of music.
7. It names the song from your crate, with its disc, folder and track, as on your player.
8. It reads the pitch fader. The deck on screen runs 3 percent fast, so the tempo reads 128 BPM.
9. What could come next, best first. Each pick says where to set the pitch and how you could bring it in, and a wave shows the transition: the end of this song over the start of that one.
10. Turn up Shuffle for less obvious picks. Pin the one you want. Or search the rest of your crate.
11. The dictionary. Every DJ starts somewhere. DJ speak, in plain words. Then how it’s used on the decks.
12. Your music, your mix. It never leaves your devices. No account. No upload. Works with no signal.
13. Deckie. Know Your Crate. Coming soon. Help us beta test. deckie.io

The screens in the film are the real apps showing a demo crate file with invented song and artist names. The music was made for the film.