TECH

Here’s your chance to blast off into space with Numark’s new Orbit controller. The Orbit recently won a DJ Mag Tech Award in the Innovative New DJ Product category with its imaginative design and novel way of controlling Digital DJing software.

Native Instruments have a knack of creating fantastically user-friendly products that manage to tick all the right boxes for DJs, especially on the all-important build quality and value for money fronts.

DJ Mag was fortunate to sit in on this year's Red Bull Music Academy (RBMA) over in New York where we got to mix it up in their state-of-the-art studio and share some quality time with some of the participants, lecturers and fellow music-lovers who happened to drop in over the month-long extravaganza.

When it comes to soft-synths, there are few names as highly esteemed in the world of production as Arturia’s. This is largely because of their incredibly faithful reproductions of classic synthesisers that are used daily by the biggest names in the game. In recent times, Arturia have taken the bold move of going beyond the virtual world by creating their range of hybrid Spark drum machines and the full-blown DSP monster Origin, which have proven to be extremely popular with the recording community — and for good reason too.

It's impossible to review any kind of DJ or studio controller without chucking in a few ‘Inbetweeners’-style knob-gags, so you can imagine my distress when this reviewer first unwrapped Livid's Base, an entirely touch-sensitive USB MIDI controller. Were they so desperate to be taken seriously that they'd deprive a lonely studio soul of his one puerile release? Actually no, there's a very good reason to go knob-free. Join me on a session of tender touching to find out...

Not only is this turntable packed to the gills with professional features, but it also weighs an absolute tonne.

This year I will celebrate 25 years of DJing, so let me take this opportunity to look on the technical side of DJing rather than...

Afrojack has teamed up with gaming device and software company Razer to consult on a new application designed for EDM DJs and producers.

Skullcandy are not ones for doing things by halves and they take this ethos into their new range of headphones the Crusher.

Desolat’s rising star tINI’s Ibiza weekly takeover at Sirocco Beach was one of this season's standout sessions, a weekly gathering with quality music that was perfect for the mid afternoon rave up

“Whether it’s performing on a big stage with Major Look or MCing in a small underground club, my instrument has always been my voice. The reliability and honesty of the SM58 is acknowledged across the industry.

Mark Fanciulli discusses the Killer Sounds of his hot new track ‘Game Plan’ on Saved Records...

When the likes of Richie Hawtin and Chris Liebing start singing your praises you know that you’re doing something right. Techno star Rebekah is part of Berlin’s CLR gang and has been wooing crowds with her amazing DJ sets and uber cool productions.

There looks to be a resurgence in dedicated compact hardware synths and Waldorf’s newest offering the Rocket Synthesizer is one little beast that offers massive sound in a very small body.

Remote Box gives complete control of the deck and mixer sections of the XDJ-R1 controller via Wi-Fi.

“Focusrite’s Forte is ideal for those producers like me who are always on the road, have deadlines to finish and cannot wait to get back into the studio to complete their projects. With the Forte, I can travel and record instruments when and wherever I please just by plugging in.

Will Numark’s latest offering, Orbit, rocket into the stratosphere or fall back down to earth with a bang?

In recent times iPad users have gone from needing to search high and low for good apps to write and perform music to being spoilt for choice with a great range of increasingly high quality apps being released on a regular basis.

DJ technology is moving forward at an incredible pace and is changing everything around us including the way people play music and how DJs bring those tunes to the masses.

Next weekend (September 14th-16th) sees the return of BPM - the UK's ultimate show for DJs and producers.