Pioneer Squid is a monster standalone sequencer for your gear

Forget for a second that Pioneer is the CDJ and DJM company. Their latest TORAIZ goes a radical new direction – making what might be the biggest mainstream hardware sequencer since the MPC and Octatrack.

Here’s what that software for the Pioneer samplers looks like

You can tote a USB stick and plug into CDJ decks, yes. And now, if the club starts buying Pioneer samplers, you can do the same with sample sets.

Peter Kirn - October 25, 2017

Pioneer made a CDJ-shaped sampler – what does that mean for DJs?

Japanese giant Pioneer continue their march to expand from decks and mixers into live tools for DJs. The latest: a sampler in the form of the ubiquitous CDJ.

Peter Kirn - October 23, 2017

The AS-1 synth from Pioneer and Dave Smith is looking really cool

Peter Kirn - April 4, 2017

What the new Dave Smith instruments sound like, no talking

Peter Kirn - January 23, 2017

We got our hands on Pioneer’s new SP-16 sampler

Peter Kirn - April 7, 2016

We talked to Dave Smith about those Pioneer sampler filters

Peter Kirn - April 5, 2016

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