With ‘The Bridge World Tour‘ Serato and Ableton product specialists and industry-leading DJs and producers will be demonstrating The Bridge in select cities worldwide. Special guests include Rob Swift, DJ Spider, Jeff Milligan, DJ Revolution, Poirier and J-Boogie.These free demos will offer an introduction to Ableton Live and Serato Scratch Live, as well as an in-depth look at The Bridge.
Solid State Logic, the world’s leading manufacturer of professional digital and analogue consoles, is proud to present a radical update to the hugely successful AWS 900 console. Launched in 2004, the AWS reinvented the professional production console by combining classic SSL analogue console technology with DAW control hardware in a single work surface. Over 550 consoles later the AWS has evolved through several significant upgrades. Now, SSL proudly presents the first revolution, rather than evolution, of the AWS.
Mixed In Key, makers of award-winning Harmonic Mixing software used by world-renowned DJs, has launched their second annual DJ contest. DJs around the world are invited to showcase their favorite music genre in a 10-15 minute mix that will be judged by some of the top talents in the industry. The winner and the runner-up will receive DJ packages worth more than $6,000 in combined retail value.
BISCUIT is the hardware FX processor from OTO Machines. They just released a free firmware upgrade to version 1.2. With Biscuit you can add depth, texture and organic behavior to synths, basslines, drum machines and virtual instruments. Using true 8-bit converters, digital processing and analog resonant filters, Biscuit opens up a wide range of sounds from harsh distortion, digital and aliasing artifacts to warm and fat 8-bit sounds. Producers, deejays, musicians and sound lovers can use BISCUIT to extend their sound creation possibilties. BISCUIT will find its place in studios, on stages or even in clubs.
Rob Cass founded Cave Productions in the late nineties and was soon involved with some of pop’s biggest names, from Robbie Williams to Estelle. Some 13 years later, Rob’s company is proud to be working in association with the world’s most famous studio, Abbey Road.
The successful Digital Jockey series has grown by one new version: the Master Edition. All the critically acclaimed controller features, allowing the perfect control of Traktor, are still on board. A reasonable novelty is the symmetric output – this way nothing can prevent a club PA to be connected directly. And with the second booth output the DJ gets his own monitor.
Vinyl is dead! … Well, that would be bold statement. And no, … it isn’t. But it is safe to say DJ’s that are working with good ol’ vinyl records are getting scares. Earlier this month, Panasonic wrote a letter to retailers that production of all analogue turn-table products is being terminated at the end of this year. This public secret is floating on the internet since 2009, but now we can say it is really over for the magnificent SL-1200.
Well this afternoon mr. Steve Jobs will get the attention of the world when he will be hosting the ‘Back to the Mac‘ event. Most likely he will be introducing a new version of OS X? Tiny MacBook Airs? iPhone announcements? Who knows… Steve Jobs probably does! On the Apple forums there have been already set up discussion forums for the core components of the iLife suite, iMovie ’11, iPhoto ’11, and GarageBand ’11.
The Denon DN-HC1000S is a dedicated Serato controller enabling DJ’s to navigate around tracks, trigger cue points-samples-loops and effects. Plus with 4 midi page banks it’s also simply to create your own custom templates directly in Serato.
Digital 1 DJ/ PCDJ announces the release of PCDJ DEX for the MAC computer platform. PCDJ, which stands for personal computer disc jockey – is synonymous with the MP3 DJ revolution. “Releasing a MAC version of our popular DEX DJ software is very exciting for us”, says Ryan Sherr, Digital 1 Audio’s G.M.
Native Instruments has started to tour the new S4 KONTROL, Native’s own DJ controller for their Traktor DJ software. Yesterday the dutch importer Amptec gave an exhibition of this much anticipated controller at Bax-Shop in the Netherlands. Gearjunkies was invited to get a first ‘hands-on’ look at this new DJ controller from Native Instruments.
The at the MusikMesse of this year announced CTRL-ONE and CTRL-SIX controllers by Gemini have received their final ‘facelift’ and are now shipping with VirtualDJ LE software. Since the advent of the “laptop revolution” in the DJ realm, DJs have had to struggle to find a controller to work with the DJ software that gives them the feel of their traditional decks and turntables. Gemini set out to make these controllers just for DJs, giving them a familiar interface along with their favorite playback, mixer, and song-shaping tools.
Drawmer has unveiled the HQ, a combined precision high-quality monitor pre-amp/volume controller and DAC aimed at devotees to high-fidelity audio everywhere. Bringing together Drawmer’s respected expertise for precision design in both the analogue and digital domains, the HQ is a critical listening device incorporating a highly accurate pre-amp and offering finely balanced volume control over a variety of analogue and digital input sources, with extremely low inter-channel crosstalk. The HQ also boasts a state-of-the-art DAC for clean conversion of digital sources to analogue for reference monitoring.
The ADI-6432R BNC provides 64 channels of format conversion from MADI to AES-3id* and vice versa. Based on RME’s highly successful MADI-AES/AES-MADI converter ADI-6432, the newly developed ADI-6432R BNC offers broadcasters ease of integration and fail-safe operation through the utilization of industry standard BNC connectors and dual redundant power supplies, while offering 64 channels of I/O capability. The BNC version targets broadcast and professional users who require AES-3id connections – coaxial 75 Ohm cables with up to 300m length.
Not official yet but RME is about to introduce the Fireface UFX as the new flagship of RME’s audio interfaces. 60 channels of audio! Digitally controlled high-end preamps, reference class converters and full 192 kHz operation. Ultra-low latency operation with USB OR FireWire combined with the legendary RME driver stability and maintenance. Including active jitter suppression, professional reference level support, advanced stand-alone functionality, RME’s unique DIGICheck metering and analysis toolbox and – of course – identical operation on Windows PC and Mac.