DJ Gear Tech
A no-nonsense guide to what’s new in Pioneer’s next-generation CDJ-3000
Pioneer’s new CDJ is likely to be controversial because of its launch timing and – Key Sync. But it does indicate where things are going, and clubs shuttered by the virus will open again. Really. So let’s have a look.
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Reloop’s new RP-8000 MK2: instrumental pitch control, Serato integration
Like the relaunched Technics 1200, the new Reloop decks sport digitally controlled motors. But Reloop have gone somewhere very different from Technics: platters that can be controlled at a full range of pitches, and even play scales. And the RP-8000 MK2 is a MIDI controller, too, for Serato and other software.
Peter Kirn - January 10, 2019
DJ Gear Music tech Stories
The Technics SL-1200 is back, and this time for DJs again
First it was dead. Then, it came back but … inexplicably cost four thousand bucks and seemed to be for audiophiles, not DJs. Now, at last, the iconic* Technics SL-1200 turntable is back, and in a newly-manufactured form that might actually suit DJs.
Peter Kirn - January 8, 2019
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Pioneer XDJ-700 is the $699 touchscreen CDJ to take home
Peter Kirn - October 13, 2015
Music tech Stories
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