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A MUST HAVE for DMs and GMs!
Great app! It has a ridiculous amount of features that have proven to be an excellent addition to my D&D sessions. Would recommend!TaylorPaterson
Can't pause environment sounds
Everything else is great so far, but I need to be able to pause environmental sounds. The support website says they can't in order to protect intellectual property, but I can't use defective software. Would be even more secure if it just didn't play sound at all...kingemer
Flawed design for custom use
While this App is a good idea I believe it is over all flawed do to their licensure agreement and overall coding outline. According to their website in there FAQ you are not able to turn off the environmental sounds without overwriting it with Music, in other words there will always be noise coming from the app. This constant noise takes away from the value of their other features such as their effects such as sound effects or their weather sounds which are therefore drowned out by environmental sounds. Unlike the music weather and sound effects cannot be changed in volume relative to the other components. The only option left then is to mute everything and pretty much render the app useless. I attempted to try and get around this problem by adding personalized the music to it, which is a great feature that they theoretically offer, with the customized music being "silence" but I was unable to have this actually go into the app because the only music that will carry over from your playlist is music that has actually been purchased through the iTunes store. I had an extensive conversation with Apple and they were not able to help me come up with a solution to this problem because it is extremely complicated to try and add the coding of iTunes store purchases to Music that was not purchased through the store.
In short while this app is a good idea and can be nice for basic use, but if you want to be a truly good DM and not have a bunch of annoying incredibly loud environmental noises going all the time and still produce other find noises which would be the part of the point in this app I would suggest against using this app.Show lessterblin
Great App that Needs 1 Improvement
This is a very helpful and exciting app, and I have used in all of my D&D sessions since I bought it. I think there is a great selection of ambiences and music, and it is great that you can add your own music too! There is one thing that really diminishes this app's usefulness though, and that is the fact that it doesn't continue to play in the background if you open another app. If that feature was added, then this would be one of my favourite apps of all time! Also, it would be nice to be able to create a "favourites" list so you can easily access certain SFX sounds, ambiences, and songs.
Thanks for the great app, and hopefully
it will continue to improve!Show lessGuygytfttyftfftfc
Nice app but missing what I was looking for.
So yeah my first campaign involves my party getting shanghaied into an arena where they fight to the death. Tried as I might I was unable to find a cheering crowd sound effect or arena or jeering or anything that would have worked. Might use it for later stuff but for know I'm going to have to look elsewhere. ^_^ thanks.Show lessJereth bane
Eh.
Fixing the previous version bug and 64 bit isn't much of an update. Haven't had any new content in over 2 years.SN0WRAVEN
Amazing!
I love this app! Not only can I add atmosphere to perfectly match any situation, but I can also add in FX for the battles! The only thing I really wish this was able to do would be to have the app continue playing in the background so if I had a note saved, I could close the app while it continued playing music, pull up the relevant notes and then right back to add the sound effects...Show lessEdMcMuffin
App Review by a DM
While it took a while to learn DM DJ to use it to its best ability; ive enjoyed it immensely. Following the directions to add playlists of my soundtracks made this the perfect app for me. A few other DMs I know went heavy into the other music RP program and after a couple campaigns dropped using it. The time it took to organize and the monetary drain became annoying.
The simplicity of this one keeps it useful: select your environment, music, day/night, and weather and youre good to go! Go learn to create your own playlists!
Its a 4 out of 5 because it needs more modern and scifi environments--its mainly fantasy with a limited selection of other environments. If it opened up users to create their own environments/sound effects it would be a solid 5.Show lessTabithaLanzing
Almoooooost perfect...
I'll start by saying I haven't had a chance to test at a session yet, but I'm relatively certain DMDJ will perform well. I'm more worried about my rustiness as a DM.
That being said, there's just one thing I can think of at that moment which would improve the app a lot. In the mixer, it would be awesome to have a slider for the environment sounds, in addition to the sliders for FX, weather, and music. Just ooooone more slider.
I understand not being able to pause the environment sounds, but if we could just mix it out without having to switch to a less busy environment, you know, when we want minimal sound or just the music... well, that would be fantastic.
I'll update my review after a play session. But so far, it's just an awesome app, which I am certain will be an indispensable part of my DMing.Show lessspookycalkins
A Fantastic Sound Board
I originally bought this app to use while running D&D type games for my middle school students in China. Now I use it in my escape room business. Best of its kind.-_name_taken_-
