DJ tech news, reviews and opinion
DJ tech news, reviews and opinion
It seems that while not exclusive, Serato and Pioneer DJ are still seeing each other. The continued dalliance has brought forth the updated DDJ-SX3, a Serato DJ Pro powered controller that adds dual USB, three mics, and a heap of refinements.
DJ gear seems to get more expensive every year, which makes retail therapy hard to do. Thankfully headphones are still in the realms of most pockets, thus the new Pioneer DJ HDJ-S7 cans will find many buyers just because they can. Geddit?
Despite armchair expert's opinion, Traktor is alive and kicking. And with the latest public beta version, Traktor gets firmly into bed with Pioneer DJ. As well as making it run better with players, it also certifies a handful of mixers. Welcome to the new world of open Traktor.
While Pioneer DJ wants to dominate the booth, it also wants to bring venues, DJs, and clubbers together inside their KUVO social platform for iOS. And in the newly released v3, DJs can post Youtube and Mixcloud content to their profile pages.
Despite marching on their own rekordbox path, Pioneer DJ is still in bed with Serato, and together they've updated the entry level DDJ-SB3 controller. But with it comes a feature that's likely to cause some ruckus with established DJs, namely scratch pads.
While much of the DJ market appears to be at a standstill, Pioneer DJ marches on and pushes forward with the rekordbox offering. Now at v5.2, it now adds support for new hardware, but in particular has been enhanced for use with DMX lighting. Has this addition made rekordbox the most complete DJ software around?
Recording mixes on the fly should be easy, but it's still something that taxes many a DJ. Pioneer DJ hopes to make it easier on some of their DJMs with the release of DJM-REC, an iOS app that hangs out of a USB port and captures the whole thing, ready to be streamed or shared.
In the past, DJ lighting has either been tragically dull, horrendously expensive, too technical, or a combination of all these things. But rekordbox 5.1 aims to change all that with addition of automated lighting, and using the new RB-DMX1 interface to drive it all.
As Pioneer DJ breaks free from the controller clutches of Serato to realise their own vision of a rekordbox driven DJ world, they've released the all new DDJ-1000 controller. And it also features glimpses of the CDJ future with a glorious high res screen right inside the full sized CDJ jogs.
Cables are a royal pain in the neck. But Pioneer DJ has tentatively dipped its toe in wireless audio by updating the DM-40 monitors with Bluetooth.
Pioneer DJ merges producer and DJ workflows together with the DJS-1000, essentially a standalone sampler and sequencer that plays nice with everything else.
Lighting is the next big thing for DJs. Seeing this, Pioneer DJ has Showkontrol, a collaboration with TC Supply that triggers lights from rekordbox tracks.