Moving even deeper into the still-exploding mobile market, Akai has recently released the iMPC mobile app for iPad. Sporting the look and layout of its popular hardware counterparts, the iMPC should feel natural to anyone who’s ever used one of these iconic beat machines. But can it hold its own [...]
With his upcoming album One Hundred Ten WKO, John 00 Fleming has a forward-thinking, more experimental vision for trance. The U.K. DJ and producer has been active in the genre since the 1990s, and with this release, Fleming’s looking to push past the genre’s club boundaries. Unlike contemporaries claiming “trance [...]
2012 was a great year for John Dahlback, and his level of success is continuing in 2013. Instrumental “Life” turned into a hit last year, named as Pete Tong’s Essential New Tune and included on Tiesto’s compilation Club Life – Vol. 2 Miami. Starting off 2013 are new tracks “Pressure” [...]
The AK-7 Core MIDI Keyboard iPad app, released by Saitara Software just under a year ago, stands strong as one of the most straightforward and uncomplicated options among wireless iPad MIDI controllers. Though not available for free, the AK-7 keyboard is certainly worth the low price of admission for those [...]
Having looked at the use of beatmatching and effects within Ableton, it’s time to check out another of its slightly esoteric editing features. The Clip Envelope editor. This quirky editor allows us to edit some deeper parameters of a sample, the way you might use an audio source editor in [...]
Innovation and ease of use resulted in the Numark iDJ Pro winning Crossfadr’s 2012 Product of the Year award, and similar qualities, albeit for the producer and recording artist, extend to the V-Control Pro iPad app. Allowing for direct control, as opposed to mouse use of recording software up until [...]
Like most DAWs, Ableton Live contains a selection of effects processors to twist and manipulate your sounds. However, as you’ve probably come to expect by now, Live does things a little differently. In addition to the usual array of compressors, distortion boxes, and phasers, there are a few DJ-friendly units [...]
Propellerhead’s Reason software is well-known for its diverse and expertly-crafted array of built-in virtual instruments and devices, from the Dr. Octo Rex loop slicer to the massive-sounding Thor Polysonic Synthesizer. One of the newest offerings, the PX7 FM Synthesizer, is so powerful, complex, nuanced, and yet easy to use that [...]
Two new releases from legendary DJ and producer Paul Oakenfold were scheduled for January 2013. The first is a remix of Bruno Mars’ chart-topping hit “Locked Out of Heaven,” which came out on January 15 through Atlantic Records. Following that is “Touch the Sky,” a collaboration between him and Matt [...]
Class-leading interface system expands and ships worldwide Focusrite’s new RedNet Ethernet-based interface system will begin shipping at the end of January 2013, with RedNet units 1-4 and the RedNet PCIe card becoming available worldwide. This innovative new system, consisting of a range of remote-controlled interfaces that connect via standard Ethernet [...]