Dance and Electronic Music South Africa
“Subtle improvements to an already great product” What Is It? I first reviewed the Vestax VCI-300 DJ Controller back in November 2008. At the time choices were somewhat limited and I found many of them lacked some obvious functionality or were a little gimmicky. The VCI-300, however, certainly stood out as one of the best Read More »
“…an extremely comprehensive DJ’ing experience” What is it? The Pioneer CDJ-350 is a digital media player and the DJM-350 is a 2-channel DJ mixer. Although they are priced and available individually, as a combo, this media player and mixer make for a really nifty DJ setup. CDJ-350 At first glance the CDJ-350 is not quite Read More »
“Using the Duo version is as close as any DAW could get to offering all the tools to write good music…” Last edition we ran a preview on the new Reason 5 ahead of its imminent release. Just reading about some of the new features was exciting enough but to be honest, pales in comparison to Read More »
Salutations and greetings BPMings! Yes, it’s one of the most used tools and effects on modern records today. “Auto-Tune”, the first plug-ins name, was originally designed by a company called Antares back in the late 90’s and popularised by Cher and her track Believe and recently by T-Pain. Today, Antares competes with Melodyne as well Read More »
Many of the default settings in Ableton Live are intended to optimise playback smoothness and keep CPU usage low. This is great for performance and working on a track but doesn’t provide the highest sound quality available from Live. Perhaps you are at the final stage of a project and you wish to ensure you Read More »
We all know the Stimming sound, born in Germany and soon spread across the globe; either starting, keeping or ending of a good tech event! Martin Stimming is known for his ‘loose’ feel of rhythm and arb hits placed in smart positions. One thing we need to remember is that Stimming has an electronic drum Read More »
Advanced enough to handle any DJ requirements and compact enough to fit it all in. What Is It? The Denon DN-S1200 is one of the most overlooked pieces of kit out on the market at the moment. Let me exemplify that statement for you. So I’m not one to examine product awards right off the bat Read More »
What is it? Numark’s brand new Mixdeck is yet another option in the increasingly competitive market of multi-platform DJ’ing. Laptop’s are here to stay although I’ve heard many, many DJ’s make snide remarks about laptop DJ’s and seem to have the misinformed impression that if you use one you’re not a ‘real DJ,’ or else Read More »
“immense sonic capabilities available at your very fingertips” What is it? When it comes to synthesizers there are few names as reputable as Roland. Since the first Roland instrument, the SH-1000, was released all the way back in 1973 they have continued to create a long and illustrious line of instruments that have shaped the Read More »
“Welcome to the 21st century…” What we were hoping to bring you was a full review of Reason 5 in this edition but alas the promised advanced copy from Propellerhead had not yet arrived in time for print, ahead of the official release date on 25 August 2010. So instead of spending a weekend tinkering Read More »
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