Sugar Bytes dreamt of a WOW2 and recently they released it! With a future-dripping user interface, 21 incredible filter types with the famous vowel mode. With distortions that cover your tracks with gas and put them on fire. Modulations that cause more trouble than your modular dark room. And finally that warm and juicy sound, that you were looking for.
Allen & Heath has launched GLD Editor, a free, computer-based control suite offering all of the key facilities of the GLD digital mixer with capability to display multiple information panels simultaneously. Available for PC and Mac, GLD Editor has the advantage of a GUI simulation of the mixer surface, offering users an onscreen representation that reflects the physical surface.
There’s nothing virtual about it. The Numark iDJ Live II gives you real DJ controls so you can mix your music with precision. Featuring an updated low-profile design and USB connectivity, iDJ Live II lets you perform your way. Connect to any iOS device or to your laptop computer and use it with your favorite DJ app and software. Work the smooth crossfader, tweak the EQ knobs, spin the capacitive touch-activated platters, and hang on for the ride.
The Black Dog announce their new company Machinewerks and Kickstarter campaign to fund the first production of their beautifully designed & built USB/Midi Control Surface for electronic musicians & DJs, the CS X51.
Available in stores in October, Akai Professional’s newest studio reference monitors, RPM500 and RPM800, offer meticulous reproduction of even the most complex modern music with the perfect balance of finely tuned technologies. Both offer distributed Class A/B amplification, providing ultra-efficient power while ensuring minimal distortion. RPM500 provides 90 Watts total, with 50 Watts dedicated to its 5 ¼-inch woofer and 40 Watts to its silk-dome tweeter; RPM800 offers 120-Watts total, with 80 and 40 going to the woofer and tweeter, respectively.
Reloop emphasized their support for our vinyl brothers and introduced two new products at the past BPM Show in Birmingham. The Reloop RP-8000 combines modern DJ technology in an advanced turntable. This hybrid high torque turntable does the balancing act between approved direct drive technology and a digital control section for your DJ software.
Akai revently introduced this small, portable, mobile sample player, the MPX8. With this device you can load virtually any sample via standard SD or SDHC card and assign it to any of the MPX8’s eight backlit velocity- and pressure-sensitive pads.
After the relases of Serato DJ 1.5 last week we knew of the soon arrival of the Rane Sixty-Four DJ Mixer for Serato. But now Rane have made it official! They are pleased to officially announce the Rane Sixty-Four mixer for Serato DJ. Everything you love about the Rane Sixty-Two mixer and more in a four-channel mixer powerhouse. Rane and Serato continue their ten-year partnership with Rane’s professionally-crafted, art-expanding DJ gear integrated with Serato’s world-famous digital vinyl emulation software.
For anyone wanting to learn the secrets of tech house or techno production, this new online course from Producertech is essential viewing. The lessons provide a thorough, in-depth guide to constructing a banging dancefloor filler, from one of the most respected producers of the last decade, Paul Maddox.
Reloop has announced their first DJ controller for iPad at the BPM Show in Birmingham which is especially designed for the DJAY app by Algoriddim. The Reloop Beatpad is a dedicated iOS controller, developed and optimized for this popular iOS DJ app by Algoriddim, offering a totally new and unimagined mixing experience with your iPhone, iPod or iPad.
Mixvibes released a new video showing their DJ software Cross, now on 4 full decks, with advanced HID control. Many clubs have standard hardware, and this standard is: Pioneer CDJs. Reason is, CDJs are EXTREMELY solid. So if you play in clubs, you play on CDJs. But anyway. Cross works extremely well with Pioneer. Why? Because Mixvibes develops rekordbox for Pioneer. Playing with Cross is like having the comfort of your computer, but in the club. All the features are mapped the same way, from Slip mode to pitch bend.
FL Studio Groove is a touch-based music production & performance application. With a 10 pad sample-based drum machine and 5 polyphonic synth channels you get all you need need to compose, arrange, edit, mix and perform professional quality music. Make complete songs, play & program synthesizers, play drums, add effects, edit musical sequences.
Native Instruments today announced new versions of both the industry-leading 4-channel DJ system TRAKTOR KONTROL S4 and its 2-channel counterpart, TRAKTOR KONTROL S2. The KONTROL S4 and S2 perfectly combine a premium DJ mixing interface, built-in 24 bit/96 kHz soundcard, and an intuitive interface into a powerful all-in-one DJ system engineered for seamless control of TRAKTOR software.
Well, Pioneer has been busy lately. After the DDJ-SP1 and DJM-900SRT for Serato, they now introduce the DJ-SR controller. With the launch of the mid-range Digital DJ-SR, Pioneer is putting intuitive control of Serato DJ software in the hands of even more DJs. This new device is a two-channel controller with the new PAD PLUS performance feature.
Allen & Heath’s renowned Xone DJ mixers were used throughout the Ibiza season at various venues across the island, requested by top DJs including Pete Tong, John Digweed, Chris Liebing, Juanjo Martin and Richie Hawtin.