Mixvibes product engineers, their Pro DJ team and the R&D software team worked together hand in hand to offer you a controller that simply matches its software. This symbiosis is characterized, for example, by the Hot Plug function. You will now be able to plug your controller on the fly, while your CROSS DJ is already running.
GrooveMaker Cool & Dre provides the elements for making ‘West Coast‘ and ‘Dirty South‘ style hip-hop beats for today’s radio and dance floor hit anthems and club-shakers. If you love the music from major hit record labels like Cash Money, Interscope and Def Jam, or the beats behind today’s super stars like Lil’ Wayne, Trey Songs, The Game, Mary J. Blige, and Nicki Minaj then you are going to love making beats with GrooveMaker Cool & Dre.
Since the introduction of the highly successful Digital Jockey series, Reloop stands for digital tradition and consistent further development on the DJ controller market. With MISSION III, namely the Jockey 3, the Digital Jockey series will be newly defined.
Full Metal Jockey: When holding the new Jockey 3 in your hands for the first time, the sturdy significant metal construction as well as the high-quality manufacturing with nut-inserted potentiometers, smooth-running faders and backlit solid rubber buttons will immediately attract attention.
Ean Golden had the opportunity to talk to Richie Hawtin at the NAMM this year. Interesting to know is that this month is the 10-year anniversary of the announcement of Final Scratch 1. Which is save to say the start of the ‘Digital Dj’ing’ movement.
These are the releases we have encountered this week on the Loops and Samples front. Just like the quality of the audio software we use these days the quality of the content we use (loops and samples) equally matches the high standards of this software. Below is this weeks selection.
On the NAMM 2011 shop, sE Electronics unvieils no super cool microphone, no new refection screen but a new set of high-end studio monitors: the Egg.
GEMINI DJ unveiled its FIRSTMIX DJ MIDI controller at NAMM 2011. The FIRSTMIX is a beginner’s entry to the DJ realm. With a computer and the FIRSTMIX, anyone can begin their forays into DJing!
GEMINI DJ unveils its breakthrough new family of media players at NAMM 2011, the CDJ-700 tabletop media player.
Meet the Rane MP25 mixer, satisfying the audio and ergonomic demands of performing DJs, in a 19˝ rack format preferred by nightclubs, with a compact 4U design that drops easily into a mobile rig. It’s the same height as a classic Rane MM 8z, MP 24 or MP 22 series Mixer.
Compact and convenient, with serious functionality and features, nanoSERIES2 incorporates many user-requested enhancements and offers them up in the same ultra-slim casing as the original nanoSERIES. The size and color of the entire series nicely matches a laptop computer.
Twelve years ago, the first-generation Kaoss Pad exploded onto the DJ/music scene with touchpad-based effect control. Since then, the overwhelming acceptance and popularity of the X-Y touchpad is evident in many Korg products – Kaoss Pad effects, the Kaossilator Series, our padKONTROL and nanoPAD controllers, even the exclusive M3 TouchView™ display – that are now standards in the scene. To this we add the Kaoss Pad Quad, with new effects, functions, and features that truly stand out from the crowd.
Making its heralded debut at NAMM 2011, the CTRL-47 is a departure from other “Digital DJ” products. Designed for DJs by the company who knows them better than anyone, the CTRL-47 is a powerful and fluid professional Digital DJ system.
Rane and Serato are pleased to present the Rane SL 4, a revolutionary new five-channel DJ interface, designed for the discerning DJ. The Rane SL 4 is the first standalone DJ interface with two high-speed USB 2.0 ports, for seamless DJ changeover and back-to-back performances, as featured in the award winning Rane Sixty-Eight mixer.
Rebuilt from the ground up by Avid’s acclaimed software development teams, Torq 2.0 is a high-performance solution featuring advanced professional features and new flexible workflow options for creative DJ performance and real-time remixing and production.
Amongst other products, Torq is one of the new products M-Audio (AVID) will be showing at the NAMM. We don’t know for sure if it is a updated Torq Xponent or a new Torq DJ controller. Details will be released any day now. The pictures below are already posted on the AVID Flickr page just to ‘tease’ us!