How It Works

At its heart, Fusor Studio modulates the controls of your DJ application from a fusor that was authored ahead of time, sending every move over MIDI. A transition runs from 0% progress to 100%, and when it completes the controls the fusor touched return to the state they started in, so long as it is safe and appropriate. Which controls are restored, and which are left where the transition put them, is covered in Settings. The vocabulary used here (fusor, deck role, progress, the two Run Modes) is defined in Key Concepts.

Fusor Studio controls your DJ application the way a hardware controller in MIDI mode does. It talks to the application over a virtual MIDI bus that runs in both directions: Fusor Studio receives from the application as well as sending to it, and the inbound half is what monitoring and control state capture use.

Progress is shown by the position of the crossfader, so moving the crossfader advances the transition. That is Manual Run Mode: the outgoing track hands over to the incoming track at whatever rate your hand travels.

Auto Run Mode derives the duration from the bars and the BPM you set. Sixteen bars at 120 BPM is exactly 32 seconds, and the transition runs to that length on the clock.

Next steps

Continue with Installation to set up the MIDI bus and install Fusor Studio.