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Installation

Fusor Studio runs on Windows 10 or later, and on a Mac with Apple silicon.

The next stage, creating the virtual MIDI bus that carries MIDI between the two applications and importing the Fusor mapping file, is Connect Your DJ App.

Prerequisites

  • Windows 10 or later, or a Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or later).
  • A DJ application. Traktor Pro is our first supported DJ app. See our Roadmap for the status of support for the others.
  • A virtual MIDI bus. Fusor Studio exchanges MIDI with your DJ software over a virtual MIDI port, inside the computer. On Windows the supported bus is loopMIDI (Tobias Erichsen), with a port named Fusor Studio. Guided Setup walks you through creating the port, so you do not need one before you install. On the Mac you need none: Fusor Studio provides its own MIDI connection, Fusor Studio.

On Windows, Windows MIDI Services is not the supported bus today. Either bus works, since Fusor Studio opens a port by name, but Windows MIDI Services has an interoperability problem that can leave Fusor Studio unable to send after you restart your DJ app (I-018 in Troubleshooting). Use loopMIDI until we announce otherwise.

Install Fusor Studio

On Windows:

  1. Download the latest Fusor Studio installer.
  2. Run the installer and follow the prompts.
  3. Launch Fusor Studio.

On the Mac:

  1. Download the latest Fusor Studio disk image (.dmg).
  2. Open it and drag Fusor Studio into Applications.
  3. Launch Fusor Studio from Applications.
  4. macOS asks whether to open an app downloaded from the internet. Click Open.
  5. macOS asks whether Fusor Studio may access files in your Documents folder. Click Allow. Your library is kept there.

On first launch, Fusor Studio creates a folder at Documents/Fusor/ containing subfolders for your fusors, actions, step sets, collections, and packs. They start empty. Guided Setup's first screen is where you confirm the location and, if you want them, install the example files. The examples are downloaded from fusorstudio.com, so that step needs an internet connection.

That installer or disk image is the only one you download by hand. From then on Fusor Studio finds new builds itself and installs them when you restart. See Updating Fusor Studio.

Next steps

Go to Connect Your DJ App. It covers Guided Setup, which walks you through creating your MIDI bus, selects your DJ application and deck pair and captures your control state, and it links to the mapping file your DJ app needs.