Despite the terrible market situation, Frankfurt has some relevant news for the electronic musician. First, a newcomer, Teenage Engineering has this toy, OP-1 , which is still not available for a while, but previewed. It is a small USB MIDI controller plus a modeilng synthesizer and a sampler in...

Wacom worked a million year for the visual market producing high-quality input devices such as tablets, lightpens an so on. Now they want to renew the DJ's input possibilities with this new product, nextbeat NXT-1000 . It is a very small gadget, and has a very new approach just check its product

Native Instruments ha more to come. Audio 4 DJ is a USB audio interface for DJs, with 24/96 resolution, four analogue inputs and four outputs. Targeted price is 230 euro, more info at the product page . Guitar Rig Mobile is a small package for the guiterist community, consisting of a small USB...

Numark's HDMIX is a dream machine for the technically challenged DJ. It doesn't need a single cable to use, it doesn't have a strange operating system - just plug it into the sound system and it plays. An internal hard drive with 80 gigabytes, color display, two scratch pads, a full-featured...

Hercules has switched to DJ equipment from manufacturing monochrome graphic adapters - that is widely know since a long time. Their next step is DJ Control Steel , a nice piece for the touring DJ which survives even the toughest experiences. It is USB-based, and made of steel - two plates, six...

EKS from Finland has announced a great new all-in-one DJ controller, Otus . It has a super-sensitive, 7,5" plate in the centre which illuminates. A ribbon controller sets the pitch, and an X/Y mouse-like pad serves effect parameter setting. It has four analogue plus two digital output channels -...

Mixed In Key , the popular DJ software reached version 4. For those who are not familiar with: it is a program that finds the key of a song from the audio file. The price is 58 USD, and here is its product page .

Native Instruments will sure make a big hit with a new generation of DJ software: Traktor Pro and Traktor Scratch Pro . What is the most interesting is the totally redesigned user interface which seems very logical. It even displays the album art of the tracks that playlisted. A huge bunch of new...

UltraMixer , a nice DJ application runs on Windows, OS X and Linux, too. It has three levels: the very simple Free is rather a sample, and works for two hours at a time. Basic for 109 USD has no such disadvantage, and Professional has numerous goodies for 239 USD. The lattest has ASIO support...

Stanton 's new DJ controller probably set a new standard in the class. DaScratch has only touch-sensitive surfaces, all the control functions are performed in that way, for only 300 USD. Go check here , especially the demo video.

Numark will have a combined audio interface - controller solution for the laptop DJ soon. Its name is Omnicontrol , and most of the technical parameters are kept in secret nowadays - on the official page there is very limited news information on it. The most important thing that can be known is...

The cheapest digital DJ solution, Quad has a new version, Quad2 . This is the system which handles four time-coded vynil discs via standard, ASIO-compatible sound cards for 89 euro only. The latest version runs on Mac already, and has a comletely customisable user interface. It has more nice...

We had an article on the free DJ software, DJ-1800 already; now it has a major upgrade, version 3.2 which streams the live mixed material to the internet. Check it here - for Mac users only. Update: unfortunatel DL-1800 is not free any more - the full single-user licence costs 80 USD.

Mixxx is a very nice and free software for the laptop DJ which runs on three platforms: Windows, Mac and Linux. And that's not the full story: it is developed with a real open source effort, and they did almost all the important functions we got used to in the expensive packages: plays mp3, OGG...

Next summer price hit at Native Instruments is related to Traktor 3 , the company's DJ solution which can be bought for the half of the money, 99 euro. Check it here , for a limited time.

Numark has an other new groundbreaking turntable, LP2CD , which writes CDs directly from the black discs, no additional hardware or software is required. It also has analog inputs that are written to the silver discs if you want, and connects to the computer's USB port to record and clean your LP...

Numark puts a new USB turntable model into the factory, PT-01USB . It is a driverless device, just connect it to the computer and it works. Bundled is a Vynil Converter software that does all the necessary steps to convert your black discs into mp3. You have an other option to convert any analogue...

Nokia is asking this question in their newest competition. Your task is to collect a sound sample set of your city from the sounds you find most characteristic. The most innovative, most exciting sets will be used in a special track composed by DJ Shadow , exclusively for Nokia. Prizes are not too...

The legendary graphic card maker's latest movement on the DJ platform was written a year ago - now it is reality. The Mobile DJ MP3 is totally wireless, weighs less than half kilogramm, and works woth computers (laptop or desktop). It controls two player decks with two jog controller and has a...

An interesting hobby project: Nathan Ramella made a universal LP time code reader for Reaktor, called Ammobox . It reads Final Scratch, Traktor and many other digital time code standard from the black discs, and costs nothing - plus, you can tweak the code yourselves. Try it from here .

Vestax was thinking about a compact DJ solution: the result is here, called VCM-100 . It can be used as on the picture, and functions as an audio interface and a MIDI controller in one. It has four analog inputs (with 18 bit resolution), and four analog outs (20 bit), and you can adjust a total of...

Stanton plans their biggest hit after Final Scratch with this two-part DJ controller family, SC System . On the left you can see SCS.1m , a regular DJ controller equipped with a 24/96 sound card (mic, phono and line inputs are present). Priced at 1000 USD it is not the cheapest option. Next to it...

Mackie released two DJ mixers, they all seem to be very conventional. The surprise is that both have an integrated Firewire-based, 24/96 audio interface to connect computers directly. On the picture is the bigger model, d.4 pro , which has four channels, optical crossfader, 3-band EQ, and...

From Numark , again: the name of the turntable is TTi , a device which provides digitised vynil sound directly on its USB port. A recording software is also included which cleans the signal from the pops and noises that are unwanted. But the biggest news is the iPod docking station - you can...

Two new DJ controller units are revealed at Vestax , both will hit the shops this summer. The VCI-300 (on the picture) is an ordinary general-purpose DJ controller unit, equipped with a four-channel USB audio interface. They did not let any more information about it, unfortunately. Second,