Posts Tagged 'midi'

Find, Remix and Reuse – SoundCloud Style
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Find, Remix and Reuse – SoundCloud Style

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For those of you who still don’t know what Soundcloud is, SoundCloud is a online audio platform that lets music professionals receive, send & distribute their music. Primarily SoundCloud provides a efficient and simple way for music professionals to exchange music they are working on in private settings allowing for easy collaboration and communication prior to a public release. With SoundCloud the music professionals can easily send & receive large amounts of tracks without cluttering their email inbox, having to make use of generic file sending services or manage their own server.

Live Beats with Ableton and Novation – 14-Leg Tour
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Live Beats with Ableton and Novation – 14-Leg Tour

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After several successful events in the USA and Portugal earlier this year, the Ableton & Novation Live Beats series is to tour Europe this September, with 14 events across eight countries. The Live Beats events are designed so that attendees of all skill levels can discover more about using Ableton Live and Novation hardware. Demonstrator Thavius Beck will mainly focus on the hands-on music-making potential of Live & Launchpad, but will also be showing off other Novation hardware and demonstrating how Automap can be used to take your Ableton Live sessions to the next level.

Is the iPad killer coming then?
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Is the iPad killer coming then?

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As we are in the middle of the review/test of our iPad and the almost endless list of music app’s, we got news of the release of the Google Chrome OS Tablet later this year. Google is planning to release their tablet on November 26th. Better known as Black Friday, the busiest shopping day of the year in the U.S. It is pretty obvious that this Chrome OS Tablet will be the main competitor to Apple’s iPad. But will it be an iPad killer? The general expectation is that the Google tablet will have Flash, something that is missed by many on the iPad. And also what will this mean for the development of (music) app’s for the Chrome OS Tablet? A feature that specifically WE (Gearjunkies) are interested in.

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NI KONTROL S4 – Demo Video

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Traktor Kontrol S4 is the first integrated DJ system from Native Instruments, based on the club-standard Traktor platform and full of innovative features. The smooth workflow based on the seamless integration between hardware and software makes it the ultimate performance system for DJs of all styles and experience levels. This video covers all aspect of this all-in-one solution and explains why the S4 looks and feels as great as it sounds! Traktor Kontrol S4 will be available this winter.

Loads of new stuff from Denon DJ at (US) DJ EXPO
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Loads of new stuff from Denon DJ at (US) DJ EXPO

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Earlier today we showed you the new DN-X600 2-Channel Digital Mixer, featuring MIDI interface and an internal soundcard. But Denon didn’t stop there. They unveiled more new gear. Denon unveiled a full-blown mixer/MIDI controller, with four-deck/four-channel mixer control with built-in soundcard and microphone effect, and the ability to control DJ software for PCs through US, the DN-MC6000. The DN-SC2000 is a single deck MIDI controller. Next to these new products the DN-X1600 is now TRAKTOR® SCRATCH PRO certified, further expanding the unit’s capability.

Open Labs is dead – Long live Open Labs
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Open Labs is dead – Long live Open Labs

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Recently we brought you the sad news of a foreclosure of Open Labs. We immediately tried to contact every Open Labs contact we had. After a few days we got assurance that we would soon recieve more information on the details of the foreclosure. Sadly we never did recieve that kind of information. But, … checking the Open Labs website this morning gave us surprisingly the news we wanted. And we are glad to inform you it is good news!

Codename: Gearjunkies 2.0 – Just a tease!
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Codename: Gearjunkies 2.0 – Just a tease!

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To be honest this should have been done many moons ago. Meaning, … changing the way we look. The Gearjunkies layout! We knew long time ago that Gearjunkies could use a freshen up. But there is a reason why this took so long. When we started the website was simple, small and easy to work with. But as the years went by and the website grew and grew, we added feature by feature. Many of them originally programmed by our in-house programmer. In other words … we created a beast! Changing a layout wasn’t as easy as it sounds. Gearjunkies isn’t like a simple Wordpress site where you click and change your theme. Hell no! It took lots and lots of work to create a new layout for Gearjunkies. We called it Gearjunkies 2.0!

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Novation DICER available now

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Novation’s Dicer is an ultra-compact cue point and looping controller for Digital DJs that fits directly onto the turntable, CDJ, mixer or laptop. It has been designed with Serato to integrate into their ‘Scratch Live’ Digital Vinyl System. However, it also works with Native Instruments’ Traktor Sctratch Pro. You can assign the pads to any MIDI function, from triggering effects to browsing your itunes library!

Griid now available from iTunes
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Griid now available from iTunes

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How could the simple task of launching clips from a controller be improved, making it as intuitive, fun and transparent as possible? Griid is the answer to that question. Griid is an advanced clip grid interface which allows you to control Ableton Live (running on your desktop or laptop) from your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch. Using specially developed touch objects and simple gestures, Griid is carefully designed with the performance experience in mind.