Nightmares in Clubland: Justin Nyce’s Worst Gig Ever
DJ Techtools regularly sits down with a veteran club DJ to ask them about their "worst night ever" at the club. …
Personal Finance Tips For DJs: An In-Depth Guide
Working DJs are often entrepreneurial individuals who wish to avoid the path of a standard 9-5 job. Being a disk…
Overview: Why We Dig Arturia’s MicroFreak
Over the next few weeks, we'll be highlighting gear we think is awesome. It'll include some solid new pieces of production, performance, and DJing equipment. Up first is the Arturia MicroFreak, a powerful hardware synth that, at the price…
Nightmares in Clubland: DJ KA5’s Worst Gig Ever
This month, DJTT contributor Matthew Thomas is stepping in for this month's edition of Nightmares in Clubland. This series has us asking veteran club DJs about their "worst night ever" while DJing. You can often learn a lot from these less…
Dr. Dot: Paint With A Midi Fighter Twister
Ever seen spiral art in action? The basic concept focuses around using a spinning canvas platform that you apply paint onto, creating unique patterns and geometric shapes. Now imagine spiral art taken to the modern digital era - that is…
Super Simple + Fast Sound Design In Ableton Live
If you're a music producer, sometimes you want to be able to crank out ideas quickly in your DAW. For beginner producers, aside from scrolling through and loading device presets, it can be intimidating to make your own instruments from…
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Traktor Mod Adds Moving Waveforms to S4MK3s Screen Display
The Traktor Kontrol S4 MK3 is great, but you know what would make it way better? Real moving waveforms, just like a CDJ! One intrepid modder, Joe Easton, has released a $5 mod that allows DJs to use moving waveforms, zoom level, and…
Traktor Pro 3.2 Out Now: Watch Chris Liebing Demo Better Harmonic Mixing In Traktor
There's a new version of Traktor Pro 3.2 that's just been released this morning by Native Instruments. The update is focused primarily on adding features that improve harmonic mixing / key matching functionalities. The new features that…
Streaming Music: what the DJ industry really thinks
Ever wonder what folks at Pioneer DJ, Soundcloud, Denon DJ, Beatport, Dubset, and more think about the future of music in DJ booths? This year at IMS Ibiza, we got to see an awesome panel discussion on "Streaming In The DJ Booth". A number…
Learning Synths: Ableton Will Teach You Synthesis In Your Browser
For many producers, synthesis is at the core of their creative process. Being able to program and create sounds a number of different hardware or software synths is a skill that pays massive dividends, but can often be a hard space to get…
Hacking Rekordbox FX, and adding RMX-1000 control
What's the best hardware to use with Rekordbox FX? A lot of the functionality of the Rekordbox DJ software is locked away. In this article, DJTT contributor Teo Tormo shares how he has unlocked some of the power features of Rekordbox DJ's…
DJing Tips from The Stanton Warriors
The Stanton Warriors are English DJ and production duo Dominic Butler and Mark Yardley. Many DJTT readers are familiar with this pair, who specialise in party-friendly, bass music bangers. They're long-time DJs as well - DJing and…
iTunes discontinued in new macOS Catalina, less-bloated Apple Music app to replace it
Today at WWDC 2019 (Apple's annual developer conference) we heard the first official news about a much-talked about development to music management: the end of iTunes. We wrote about this in April, and it's true: in the upcoming macOS…
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