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How to avoid USB and rekordbox DJing failures: a complete guide

Every few months, some DJ horror story or failure takes over social media. Here’s a complete guide, with official advice from Pioneer DJ and pro DJs, on how to prepare your media and files for digital DJ gigs.

Penguin parade: Sinevibes now does Linux

Love Linux? Time to show it: CDM fave Sinevibes has brought their Integer effect plug-in to Linux-native VST3. So it’d be great to hear from Linux-using CDMers about this one.

Peter Kirn - April 11, 2024

macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 includes bug fixes for plug-ins, USB, Java

Apple has released macOS Sonoma 14.4.1. As verified by some plug-in developers, this includes fixes for an issue that could cause plug-ins to fail. It also includes important fixes for USB hubs and Java.

Peter Kirn - March 27, 2024

Don’t upgrade to macOS Sonoma 14.4 yet: plug-in compatibility issues

Peter Kirn - March 13, 2024

Could a new DAW file exchange format help you move projects around?

Peter Kirn - September 27, 2023

Yeah, you should totally hold off updating to macOS 13 Ventura if you can, because plug-ins

Peter Kirn - November 8, 2022

Madrona Labs’ plug-ins are now all M1-M2 Apple Silicon native

Peter Kirn - October 3, 2022

Ableton Live 11.2 is out of beta – here’s what’s new, at a glance

Peter Kirn - September 27, 2022

Now that Ableton Live is Apple Silicon-native, will your plug-ins and tools still work?

Peter Kirn - September 29, 2021

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