NAMM 2007: the year of the DJ
18/01/07 23:17 |Audio
The NAMM show opened its doors at Anaheim this morning. If you're a laptop DJ, you were in for a treat. This year, it seems the music industry finally realized there are a bunch of Traktor users out there looking for surface controllers, audio interfaces, time coded vinyls, and competition to Traktor. It's worth noting that back in October NI had announced they were dropping support for FinalScratch, so we knew they were up to something in that space, along with M-Audio which had already released Connectiv Vinyl. So here we go for a quick shopping list for "unanalog" DJs:

  • M-Audio: Torq Xponent (USB MIDI controller + MIDI interface + USB audio interface).
    xponent1

  • Vestax: VCI-100 (USB MIDI controller)
    vci100

  • NI: Traktor Scratch (Traktor + time coded vinyl support + dedicated audio interface), Audio 8 DJ (USB audio interface with phono preamps).
    audiodj

  • Behringer: the BCD2000 has finally been updated to become the B-Control DEEJAY (MIDI controller + USB audio interface) with Windows/OSX support and ships now with Traktor LE at the behringersque price of 299USD.
    b3000

  • Numark: Total Control (USB MIDI controller) which looks almost identical to the ION iCUE I saw at CES.
    numark1

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