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With the onslaught of new controllers, there remains an old friend common to just about all of them, the USB connection.  And just as our DJ equipment keeps evolving and improving, the folks behind the USB protocol are ever pushing to keep…

You get to the club with plenty of time, carefully set up all your equipment and, with just five minutes before start time, realize the worst: the laptop's power supply is at home. In this nightmare scenario (which is more common than you…

The introduction of the Dicer may have heralded a new marriage of turntables and controllers, but as with all new marriages, there is a lot to be fully explored. The current rash of YouTube videos featuring the Dicer have only begun to skim…

While in San Francisco, I dropped in on DJTT to meet the people I have been working with in the virtual world and to pick up some of the hot new items from the store. We all feel very familiar with our online community but I was wondering…

http://www.youtube.com/v/dTWqk1HYQ_A&hl=en_US&fs=1 NI just released a teaser video featuring Dubfire rocking Space, Ibiza with an un-identified Traktor controller and software. Learn what we know about this new release along with…

An audio issue is every DJ's worst nightmare, after all audio is our art!  For digital DJs, there are two sets of audio to worry about: analogue and digital, with USB being the most popular means for our digital hook-up.  For MacBook and…

For years Traktor was the only game in town if you wanted professional dj software that accommodated controller DJs.  Now with two years under it’s belt, Serato Itch has 4 decks, FX and sync, and is starting to look like a real player in…

Serato Itch is well known for its tight controller/software integration, but this comes at the price of having no externally mappable functions. With its fixed controller layouts, many have longed to have at least cue point juggling from a…