The DJM-V10 sits clear at the top of AlphaTheta’s lineup of club mixers. It’s an absolute beast, speced out with everything you could possibly need including an incredible 6 channels, built-in compressor, 4-band EQ and super powerful effects. For most people though, this was complete overkill and its nearly £3000 price point made sure it […]
Andy Fermo never expected a volunteer DJ slot at his wife’s networking group would change his life. But that’s exactly what happened when he dusted off his old CD decks after seven years away from music. “I hadn’t touched my gear since 2010,” Andy recalls. “After the Army, I hit a dark patch and didn’t…
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…
Roland announced the new TR-1000 Rhythm Creator today: a $2,699 USD drum machine that blends digital sound engines and analog circuitry with new sampling abilities, all in one heavy-hitting piece of hardware. It weighs in at just over 12 lbs and is built at ~19″-wide x ~12″-deep x ~15″ high. It’s the first true analog…
Serato Brings Spotify Integration to Serato DJ Pro and Lite The wait is finally over and Spotify is now fully integrated with Serato. This is huge news, as Spotify is the biggest music streaming platform out there and now you can use the same service for your daily listening as you do for DJing. With…
David Franks isn’t your typical Digital DJ Tips student. At 72, he’s living proof that it’s never too late to reinvent yourself – or in his case, rediscover a skill from decades past. His DJ journey began in 1978 at the height of disco, when he was handed two Technics 1200 turntables and a mixer…
AlphaTheta has announced OneLibrary, a shared music library format developed in partnership with Algoriddim and Native Instruments. It’s designed to fix one of the biggest problems in modern DJing, which is that, usually, you’re pretty much tied to a single software ecosystem. Until now, switching between platforms like rekordbox, Traktor, or djay meant rebuilding your…