DJ tech news, reviews and opinion
DJ tech news, reviews and opinion
Beatport is a decade old. Let that just sink in for a moment. It seems like only yesterday that the clunky Flash interface hit the internet and beckoned us to throw our credit cards at the screen. But ten years on, Beatport has a new interface, and a string of stuff to coincide with its birthday.
Are you one of those DJs who has invested a serious amount of cash on DJ gear but still push the sound out through some really old plastic hifi speakers? Do you want to upgrade but don't know where to start? Then you need to read our immense entry level studio monitors group test.
Tablets are established within DJing, and their use is becoming more diverse too. While some use them for full-on DJing, their use as an accessory is growing all the time. TKFX runs on iOS and Android and is designed to give much greater control over Traktor's effects.
While iOS DJing is totally established and flourishing, Android has been slow on the uptake. It's mainly for technical reasons of course, but Mixvibes has been ploughing on tacking each hurdle and adding key features to Cross DJ for Android. This time it's MIDI.
Records needed a record player with a platter to be used by DJs. But as digital media and more sophisticated technology has taken hold, the need for a real estate hungry jog wheel has diminished. Dan Morse asks if the jog wheel is even relevant in the digital age.
Back in the day, when weekly music releases counted in the tens rather than hundreds, finding killer tracks was much easier. But the digital age has enabled everyone to make music, and this they do more than ever. So it's very cool to have music discovery services like Moretrax and huurd.it to help you find and filter the stuff you really want. Dan Morse has a look at both.