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NI’s Traktor S5 is a more compact all-in-one DJ controller; here’s how it stacks up
The Traktor Kontrol S8 from Native Instruments is, let’s face it, the Cadillac Escalade of DJ gear. It’s loaded. It’s shiny. It’s powerful. It’s also expensive and hard to parallel park. So, without much fanfare, NI last week gave us the S5. It’s roughly the size of the S4 – the two-wheel controller that was […]
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MIDI and Audio Over iOS Cable: Here’s How, Available Now
We’ve seen the future, and it’s … back to wires. First, we saw midimux connect any MIDI app or hardware on your iOS device to any MIDI software or hardware connected to your Mac. Plus in a 30-pin or Lightning cable, run some software on each end, and connect anything. Then, we saw the promise […]
A USB MIDI Controller, Designed Like a Mixer, from Dubspot + Livid: DS1 [Q&A]
We’ve got grids, more grids, and disco grids. We’ve got fake platters and big, whirling plates. We’ve got iPads and things you wave around in the air. But as controllers have embraced digital design, the number of controllers that have the logical layout of a mixer has, remarkably, diminished. And what really don’t have much […]
TouchAble for iPad, in Update, Comes Closer to Controlling All of Ableton Live; in Action
Peter Kirn - November 11, 2011
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