Built with club installation in mind, the Reloop RMX-80 Digital elevates the mixer to a new level with several innovative features while still being familiar. A fully digital design characterizes the Reloop RMX-80, offering everything a DJ needs. When it comes to usage, the DJ gets a clear layout with [...]
When you’re seeking out a quality DJing controller, you can’t get any better than the Traktor Kontrol MK2 S4 and Kontrol MK2 S2. On a very general level, both offer professional quality, from seamless integration with Traktor Pro DJ software and the Traktor DJ iPad app, all while allowing for [...]
DJing gear, these days, must not only deliver quality but also be lightweight, portable, and accommodate the latest technology. This notion, however, doesn’t just apply for the controller the DJ decides to use but further to any accessories – even the stand supporting the laptop, controller, and other equipment. The [...]
With DJing equipment, smaller seems to be the trend, but should having a highly-portable piece of gear come at the expense of quality? Although this may be the case with certain products, the Traktor Kontrol Z1 manages to do both. In becoming something practically any DJ will need in the [...]
Over the past few years, Native Instruments has slowly built a robust arsenal of performance-minded hardware for the modern digital DJ, offering a variety of feature sets from the fully-stocked monolith of the Traktor Kontrol S4 to the one-controller-one-function DJ tool that is the Traktor Kontrol F1. Somewhere in the [...]
Who says beginners or casual DJs can’t have decent gear? With its value and “starter” Mixtrack line, Numark continues to grow, with the Mixtrack Quad expanding the capabilities of the Mixtrack Pro II, which we reviewed back in April 2013. This DJ controller with audio I/O comes with four channels [...]
Whether it’s iPad control, video playback functionality, or novel ways to launch samples, updates to the traditional format of DJ software have been few and far between in the past few years. When I first encountered The One DJ Software by Audio Artery at NAMM 2012, the project was still [...]
For some time now I have mistakenly ignored the Traktor Kontrol X1 MK2 by Native Instruments. The original Kontrol X1, while one of my favorite controllers for years and certainly revolutionary for its time, had slowly fallen out of my favor as newer, and what I thought to be better, [...]
In a sense, a fondness for nostalgia has characterized the pop culture period from the late ‘00s to the present. How music is produced isn’t exempt from this. In fact, after over a decade in which the average consumer lost interest in vinyl, its warmth, detail, and musical authenticity became [...]
Back at the 2013 Winter Music Conference, the theme of versatility over the purity of vinyl pervaded throughout various gear workshops. Based on events from Stanton’s parent company Gibson Audio and Pioneer, the question regarding gear these days isn’t so much “Does it seem authentic, like playing vinyl?” but rather [...]