Traktor DJ for iPad showed us what can be done when you resist the urge to simply shrink your existing software or just slide it under a touch interface. Since its iOS debut, the folk at Native Instruments have spent the last couple of months caut…
That’s right, we’re in the home stretch, and we can still use a little bit of love. As we subtly hinted previously, The Engadget Show is a nominated for a Webby, and we need your help to win! Remember all the fun we had last year with Douglas Rush…
Who’d have thunk it? Numark, at a music trade show with a new another DJ controller for your consideration. This time it has taken its popular Mixtrack console, and doubled down on the number of channels on offer. This now means between the Mixtrack,…
Beamz has been firing lasers in the name of gesture-based performance for a few years. Today, it’s announced it’s working with popular music-mixing software Virtual DJ to provide tighter integration between the device and the program. The controller …
A couple of years is a pretty good run in MIDI controller-land. It was 2009 when Novation’s Launchpad turned the Ableton world onto its simplistic charms. It appears, however, the firm’s decided it was long overdue a refresh, so that’s exactly what i…
The past year and a half has been a period of big changes for the Engadget Show, eschewing our longstanding studio format for a new kind of program that’s given us the freedom to travel the world, in search of bigger, deeper stories. We spent the yea…
Just when you thought Numark couldn’t invent any more DJ controllers, it’s done it again. This time it’s MusikMesse at Frankfurt, with the little guy you see above — the Mixtrack Edge. It’s described as “ultra portable” and when you see how big it i…
Traktor DJ is one of those apps that sells the entire idea of the iPad itself — it takes the fundamentals of complicated, expensive PC-based DJ programs like Traktor Pro and Serato Scratch Live and reduces them to a handful of …
Native Instruments’ Traktor has long been one of the most popular DJ systems in the world, but it’s always been fairly expensive and somewhat challenging to use. That’s all changing today with the release of Traktor DJ for iPa…
This year marks the 30th anniversary of MIDI, the language that electronic instruments use to talk to one another. It’s how drum machines stay in sync with arpeggiators, how a keyboard tells a synthesizer which notes to …
