Not everyone wants to be anything more than a hobby DJ. That’s not only OK, it’s amazing! Most of the students at our school are learning to DJ primarily for fun, because DJing is a great thing to do – period. But at the same time, plenty of our students dream of playing the big … Continued
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AlphaTheta, Algoriddim and Native Instruments have launched OneLibrary, a new unified music library format that lets DJs export their personal music libraries from Djay Pro, Traktor and Rekordbox to USB drives for use on AlphaTheta’s/Pioneer DJ’s professional DJ hardware – no laptop needed. The OneLibrary format, which is essentially a rebrand of Rekordbox’s Device Library…
Recording your DJ set is usually easy if you use a controller and a laptop: you just hit “record” in your DJ software. The software records your mixing, and gives you an audio file at the end of it that you can share, upload to a service like Mixcloud, listen back to for your own…
One of our Access All Areas subscribers needs to take their bedroom set-up on the road for a 50th birthday party (and, we strongly suspect, more where that came from). We see this question all the time: how do you convert a bedroom set-up into something you can actually use for DJing parties? This marks…
I had the opportunity to try out AlphaTheta’s new flagship all-in-one DJ system, the XDJ-AZ, and I must say, it lived up to the hype. As the successor to the widely popular XDJ-XZ, this system not only introduces several new features but also addresses many of the shortcomings of its predecessor. One of the most…
Reloop has announced the PTB-2, an ultra-compact 2+1-channel DJ mixer designed specifically for portable and truly mobile DJ set-ups. The mixer features an integrated USB-C audio interface with Djay Pro DVS support, Bluetooth connectivity, and – crucially for portablists – the ability to run entirely from USB-C power, meaning no mains outlet required. The PTB-2…
There comes a point for most DJs where just mixing other people’s songs starts to feel limiting. You begin to notice how a track could work better or maybe you want to really put your own identity on your music and define a more signature sound. That’s when a lot of DJs start experimenting with…