DJ tech news, reviews and opinion
DJ tech news, reviews and opinion
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.
Having a few spare hours to kill, we did what any self-respecting DJ would do - bust out the video camera and record a Numark NV demo. And eat cookies.
A man with money and an obsession with vinyl is likely to make for a great story. The New York Times details Zero Freitas and his humungous collection.
This week has seen some big announcements from the Serato camp. A lot of this is around the new Serato DJ DVS add-on that lets suitable partner controllers run Serato DJ DVS without the need of external interfaces. You just plug in your turntables and media players and you're off. But we're still not sure how much of a need there is. Serato will have done their homework, but we'd like you to tell us if the need is real, perceived, or non-existent.
In the wake of the shutdown to Technics, it seems that the rest of the market have come out of the shadows and are experiencing a resurgence. But these are different times and there's a diverse user base with using turntables in different ways. And we'd love for you to tell us how you use them by checking some boxes in polls.
In the digital age, DJs have an increasing need for audio interfaces. This has never been truer since iPads and iPhones emerged as a real player in the DJ scene. But they really need a good interface to make them more useful. So having reviewed it, we've got 3 x Griffin DJ Connect audio interfaces to give away.
A brief excursion to London for a visit to Native Instruments UK new offices (lots of windows, wood and bare brick - lovely) gave me a insight into their roadmap, and their new #futureofdjing hashtag was a key part of the presentations. But this is just NI's vision, and they are not the only player of the DJ game. So what do you think is the #futureofdjing? The floor is yours. Unleash opinions.
Pioneer mixers are ubiquitous, and as such are an ideal bed fellow for the Audio Innovate mini Innofader. The relationship hasn't always worked out well, and has seen AI come up with all manner of hacks and fixes. So we approached their DJM-T1 mixer with some trepidation, but with AI's help, we got them working nicely together. And we made a video to show it in action.
Turntables are back, but do they do what you want? Do you want the basics or do you want every bell and whistles in the world? Tell us.
You can never have enough DJ Woody. So get a load of this new video from the man himself showcasing his skills over the North West Community scratch looper.
I am of a certain age where bits of me start to fail. And I've just hit the headphones vs glasses clash in style. Is it something that you struggle with?
Music sharing is easy these days. But imagine a time before Spotify and complicate that with Western music being banned. X-ray pictures disk were the way.