Jared Helfer, Author at DJWORX

Sennheiser HD8 DJ Headphones review (14)

REVIEW: Sennheiser HD8 DJ Headphones

Jared Helfer·October 30, 2014·17 Comments

When you've got the most revered DJ headphones in your roster, why on earth would you bring something else out? Well that's exactly what Sennheiser has done with the HD8 DJ headphones. But they're not just another HD25 variant and instead go for a different market. Jared Helfer wears, listens, and writes. And fails to break them too.

Kontrol S8: A Follow up with Native Instruments

Jared Helfer·October 15, 2014·25 Comments

You asked and we answered. Well Native Instruments answered the handful of Kontrol S8 questions that came up that we couldn't. You're welcome.

Traktor Kontrol S8: What We Know

Jared Helfer·September 22, 2014·120 Comments

Having previously established that the internet doesn't allow for the stuffing cats back into bags, NI has to do what it can with what is left. So here's a teaser video for the new Traktor Kontrol S8... to go with the high res images that ended up on Amazon last week. In a bold move, the S8 has no jog wheels and no tactile pitch control. Are we entering a brave new world shaped in NI's vision?

Truly Modular: Modulares Interface

Jared Helfer·October 27, 2014·4 Comments

The adoption of mobile devices into DJing has been slow but steady, with solutions that exists entirely as apps, or using the iPad laptop style to drive the apps. But the Modulares Interface approach is to fully encase an iPad inside a frame and build your own configurable controllers with modular components. Jared and Dan take a look.

Traxus Lemur iPad Traktor controller (11)

Traxus Control: The Ultimate Traktor Remote + Interview

Jared Helfer·October 3, 2014·19 Comments

While the DJ industry keeps chucking great lumps of hardware to cater for the needs of software, the iPad continues to offer a highly configurable interface. The Traxus Traktor Remote offers extremely comprehensive control of Traktor's effects. Jared Helfer takes a look, and catches up with the creators for a chat.

Native Instruments Komplete 10 Kontrol (4)

Komplete 10 – more Komplete than ever

Jared Helfer·September 5, 2014

Native Instruments announce Komplete 10 Komplete 10 and Komplete Ultimate 10, a most epic collection of pretty much everything you could need to make sound of any sort. Ultimate 10 is indeed so vast that it comes on a hard drive all of its own.

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