Thursday, April 1, 2010

New Pioneer CDJ350 and DJM350!




Wowies some new toys in the pioneer hood! 

Pioneer CDJ-350 Deck Description

This new unit lets you DJ using MP3, AAC, WAV and AIFF files that are stored on different forms of media such as USB mass storage devices or CD-R/RW discs.
Features:
  • Beat Display Function – This visually illustrates the beat position of a song and the playback point providing easier hand, eye and ear coordination for scratches and loops.
  • Auto Beat Loop Function – With one press of a button on the player, the user can create various loop performances including:Beat Loop, Loop Divide and Hot Loop
  • Auto BPM Lock – DJ can set a master beat per minute (BPM) on the CDJ-350 so that current playing songs can be synchronised with just the touch of a button.
  • Create Playlist Function – While a song is playing, users can immediately add it to a new playlist with a touch of a button for future playback of favourite songs.
  • DJ Software Compatible – The CDJ-350 is MIDI compatible with other DJ software allowing it to be used as an audio interface.

Pioneer DJM-350 Mixer Description:
The Pioneer DJM-350 has four types of basic effect – Filter, Jet, Gate Crush and an isolated three band EQ. It also features a front mounted USB port to let you record performance onto USB storage devices for later review, no computer necessary.
Other features include mic/aux input terminals for connecting portable audio players and/or microphones, fader start functionality with an attached CDJ player and a crossfader curve adjustment function to enable smooth or sharper track transforms.
Both units will be available in June 2010.

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Friday, March 19, 2010

Pioneer Rekordbox Free Download: Its a FREEWARE now! (well soon-ish!)

Pioneer has recently announced that their REKORDBOX Software is going to be a freeware! And guess what, you can download the new version of the program right NOW - HERE (and then go to the download page)

Well compared to Traktor Scratch Rekordbox pales in comparison - but now that its a freeware who can really complain? This means theres no excuse for DJs not being able to prepare tracks at home on the Rekordbox software, export them into a USB Stick and then carry it to the clubs that have the CDJ900/2000s - Pioneer is aiming to establish the CDJ900/2000 as club standards? Perhaps...

Saturday, March 13, 2010

The Windows 7 experiment

been busy with work/study/family etc

So i decided to install windows 7 on my backup notebook as a little experiment...

Spec: Intel dual core 2.16ghz, 4gb ram, 250 gb hard drive

Result: WOW! I thought vista was awful but Windows 7 is really a lot faster! I still think macbooks are the way to go but to think that for the same price as a lowly macbook white you could get an intel i5 2.53ghz with 4GB ram and 500gb hd - its pretty tempting!

(with wifi turned off) - traktor runs pretty smoothly on windows 7 as well! So is Windows 7 the way to go? We shall wait and see :)

Friday, November 13, 2009

Traktor 1.2.3 - coming soon! (in beta testing)

From Native Instruments site: 14/11/2009



The update will include the following improvements:

New and improved features:
  • Traktor Kontrol X1 integration
  • Native zero-configuration support for Pioneer CDJ-2000 / CDJ-900 / CDJ-400 / MEP-7000
  • Native zero-configuration support for Denon DN-HC4500
  • New controller icon in header shows connected devices
  • Improved Setup Wizard with phono/line switch for Audio 4 DJ/Audio 8 DJ
  • Deck copy function in browser
  • Additional controller mapping functions
  • Enhanced pitch fader range control
Fixes:
  • Various fixes



YES!! Did they decide to fix the CDJ400 HID support? Im hoping to see a serato-like native support for the cdj400~ Lets wait and see when its out (not its in beta testing phase, i reckon it should be out in like a week or two!)

-ZILCH

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Burning CD's for djing - So yesterday?

Seems like not so long ago i still use CD's as a predominant media for mixing, as in i use pioneer CDJ's and in order to do so i burn my music into CD's. I always hated the whole burning/print cover/find perfect space in cd wallet thing~ Especially worse is when you are looking for a certain track in a huge pile of CD Wallets in a dark club~ Have u ever had this situation? You just tought of a perfect tune to SEIZE THE MOMENT~ Yet...  you missed the chance coz you cant find it!!!  *UGH! BURNING CD IS SO LAME*

These days i use serato scratch live and also recently: Traktor. After buying the traktor scratch duo set and upgrading the software to PRO, i can definitely see myself as a traktor fanboy (OMG?!! I always thought i loved serato??)

But now, just the thought of having to burn cds, print stuff, stick on cd, arrange cd wallet, is holding me off from using CDs with CDJS ever again~ i mean i will still bring my cd wallets just in case (in case my laptop crashes of course!) but for newer stuff i dont think i'd be bothered to burn them into CD's?   So these days i reckon DVS + laptop + CDJS/TURNTABLE is the way to go,  its the way of the future!  DOnt forget to bring your cd wallet tho, coz no matter how good ur laptop/dvs/cdj,  any of these crash so just be safe....


-ivan