Vestax @ Musikmesse Frankurt 2009

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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.

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Novation SL MK II

novationp25slmkii_3Novation 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.

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Ableton Live 8

ableton_live_8_smallAbleton has released the next generation of its live sequencing applications, Live 8 and Ableton Suite 8.

I am very excited about this news and can’t wait to get my hands on the new version of Ableton.

I already took a sneak into the beta version of the software but didn’t really got to get into all the new functions and improvements.

I will do my first steps with the new version within the next weeks to get a feeling what has changed and what new functions are really interesting for my setup.

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Rane Serato SL3

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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.

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