Tribe of Noise and GoAnimate experience the amount of talented individuals online is infinite. To amplify the creative strength of their niche communities, one with musicians and one with animators, they are now facilitating cross platform collaboration for the production of animated music videos.
Denon’s new Hybrid MIDI mode adds impressive DVS (Digital Vinyl System) versatility to the DN-S3700 Digital Media Turntable and the DN-S1200 Compact Media Player & Controller with today’s leading DJ applications. World’s First Hybrid MIDI mode generates the required CD/Vinyl control signal (timecode) from within the deck’s DSP allowing for super accurate tracking and spinning platter performance (S3700) without using the CD timecode. Other buttons and knobs can control essential features such as, File Browsing, Hot Cues, Looping… etc. over USB MIDI.
These past weeks FXpansion teased us with some ‘obscure’ videos on this new instrument they were developing. Little later we got a name. They called it Geist. And today the Geist is out the bag! FXpansion is showing Geist in full, it is their new sampling instrument…
BPM 2010 was a BIG part of whats happening over the next few years in the DJ world. Along with the DB4 and other super cool products there was 1 mixer that caught peoples eye for being different! The chrome rotary Xone: 4D by Dan & Darren Guest certainly turned heads including the one and only Paul Van Dyk’s!
After the success of THE FINGER, British artist and musical prankster Tim Exile is back with THE MOUTH! Designed to generate melodies and harmonies out of whatever audio material you feed it, THE MOUTH is a unique and exciting way to get creative results on the fly. Sing, beatbox or send a drum loop into it and THE MOUTH comes to life as a tweakable synthesizer, bass, vocoder or talkbox-like effect. A playful interface provides you with plenty of room to shape your results as you go.
Six months since the release of the original Fairlight CMI Legacy ReFill, Bitley releases this completely new version. Being nearly 10 times as large, here comes the new refill, originally code named “Supersonic“.
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.
DJ Blakey was the UK DMC Champion in 2004. These days he is working closely on the upcoming video game DJ Hero 2. In the video below he is showing us the use of the Novation Dicers to ‘… whack out some choons‘!
Bass music innovator Diplo (Major Lazer, M.I.A.) throwing light on the method behind some of the most distinctive beats and sounds of recent years. Find out why Komplete 7, and particularly Massive, play a central role in the production of his hybrid, bass-heavy dance music.
SONiVOX, Boston MA, based award-winning music software company today offered a pre-release preview complete with Video examples of their upcoming release, PULSE – Advanced Production Instrument.
Eleven Rack is a revolutionary new guitar recording and effects processing system designed to eliminate the challenges guitarists have faced in the studio and on stage. Say goodbye to the lackluster guitar amp “models” of yesteryear: Eleven Rack utilizes a unique tone cloning design and one-of-a-kind, custom-designed True-Z input to re-create the experience of playing through a full guitar rig. By combining studio-standard Pro Tools® software with a DSP-accelerated high-resolution interface, Eleven Rack puts professional recording into the hands of every guitar player. Whether you’re tracking in the studio or playing on stage, Eleven Rack delivers fresh, mind-blowing, hyper-realistic guitar amp and effects tones that will inspire your best performances.
Running in the free GUITAR RIG 4 PLAYER, RAMMFIRE is boosted to a one-stop multi-FX processor with a wide range of sonic possibilities. The integrated GUITAR RIG FACTORY SELECTION brings you 20 additional effects such as chorus, flanger, delay, distortion, filter, EQs, compression and powerful modulation features. And with the simple rack concept, building up effect-chains is as easy as drag and drop.
DJ Dan Guest and his father Darren have fully customised a Allen&Heath Xone:4D mixer which can be seen at this years DJ show, BPM in Birmingham. U.K. The mixer will be completed just in time for the international event at the NEC and no one, (not even A&H) has seen what Dan & Darren have created. The changes to the Xone:4D include: A new way of controlling the mixer, a radical new finish to the front panel, Dan Guest branding, some technical mods and a change of light pipe setup. Dan has made it totally unique with improved features for his personal Dj’ing use.
Ableton and Serato today announced the release of The Bridge, a software partnership which brings together DJ performance and production. The new tools generated by this partnership emphasize ease and creativity while pushing the boundaries of live performance. Below are two videos to give us some more insight in the use of The Bridge for DJ’s.