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This little ‘commercial’ has been put up by Native Instruments on youtube.
NI presents three vids showing some really hot controllerism routines by DMC Champion DJ Rafik using the new NI controllers!
Rafik is showing is high-class skills using his turntable combined with the NI controller MASCHINE and the upcoming X1 hardware. Check the vids, Rafik is really choppin it up.
“Available worldwide now: AKAI APC 40″
Today AKAI released the APC 40 – Ableton Performance Controller. Ableton and Akai worked in a joint partnership to create the APC40, a Controller specifically designed as Ableton Live control surface.
To me this new Ableton controller looks very intresting and I really want to get my hands on it!
One of my objectives at Musikmesse Frankfurt 2009 was getting the latest info on new Vestax gear.
To my surprise the Vestax booth was pretty small and didn’t really stick out between all the different manufacturers. I rather had a hard time finding their booth at all.
News at the Vestax booth were also pretty rare and to my surprise the exhibited products mainly focused on digital dj equipment. Only two turntables and a few mixers were issued.
Novation has introduced the Novation SL MkII control keyboard at Musikmesse 2009.
The second generation of Novations controllers are the enhancements of the popular Novation Remote series. Since the Remote 25 SL is one of my central and most important components within my dj-setup, I am really expactant on the revised version of the controller.
Rane and Serato announce SL3 – Fresh from the Musikmesse 2009:
The new Serato Scratch Live 3 package by Rane is available in stores now!
The package got introduced at Musikmesse 2009 in Frankfurt and is the long awaited update to the original SL 1 audio interface that addresses some of its common problems.