If your the guy who needs to get a little more midi control without sacrificing precious booth space or beer money you may have reason to rejoice. Korg has announced a clever line of midi controllers that will fit right in front of your laptop and theoretically perhaps sit on the same laptop stand
Bomes Midi Pro is an excellent piece of Midi translation software originally designed for the PC and now a beta has been made available for Mac users. DjTechTools has been working with Florian, the lead developer of Bomes midi pro, to help bring some exciting new functionality that will no doubt make Bomes Midi Pro an even better piece of software than it already.
We will be posting tutorials to help everyone to get to know this wonderful piece of midi translation software as time goes on so this is certainly one piece of software to keep a close eye on.
There are many things you can do with Bomes Midi Pro including creating smart-knobs to control your VST’s and change between midi presets thats are similar to, but more powerful than Traktors page functions.
If you were subscribed to the Bomes Midi email list you would have recently received this in your mail box:
Not sure about you but I am an 8 year old kid wrapped up in mans body. There-for djing is a professional excuse to get paid for playing with toys. As with all 8 year old kids, I like to twist knobs, move faders, physically interact with and impose my will upon these expensive toys. So if you take away all the fun things to dominate and just give me a touch screen, will I become bored and diss-satisfied? I suspect most people that call themselves Dj Techies fall into this same categorie, so I wonder how you feel about this new direction in technology interface design.
Watching videos like this one floating around lately are hardly inspiring but then again have you flown Virgin America lately? They have these terribly flawed but impossibly intriguing touch screens paired with the original version of Doom! How did we play that game for so many hours!?!? The graphics literally melted my eyes! Back to the point: while I have yet to see anything mind blowing performed on a touch screen, you cant help but want to play with them as well. As CDM reported, mainstream touch interfaces for windows users may not be that far off.
So will we cast aside our mamarian instincts and throw ourselves into the technological abyss of the pure computer interface? That much remains to be seen but I am going to hold onto my arcade buttons for now.
The introduction of Pioneers DVD player for djs had everyone, including myself, drooling over the possibilities. It fast became apparent that moving MTV from the boob tube to the club was not exactly going to be the most revolutionary thing on the planet. Instead, guys like Mike Realm have shown how a little video editing can produce some really fun results that are totally original.
The very capable team behind Serato Scratch has made that goal even easier to achieve by rolling video into their ubiquitous DVS system. Dj Mei-Lwun, the face behind our now infamous Fisher Price review, gives us a quick run through and demonstrates a very cheeky home made video combo.
In one of our tutorials 2 weeks ago I showed you how to layer 2 filters on top of each other and assign one knob to many different functions on those 2 filters. This “super knob” is a handy way to create wild sounds with minimal effort. In that case the desired effect required a Zone 92 LP filter on the deck and a HP filter on the master effect. So if you suddenly get inspired to create some wild filter builds in the middle of a set, you would probably want to have 2 controllers dedicated to that function. A button to engage the required effects and the super knob to tweak them out. So how do you make one button do that?
We are going to introduce a new feature where I talk to a professional digital dj about his techniques and personal way of using dj technology. This month I interviewed Dj Lorin for my Remix magazine column. The printed version was only a part of the full interview bellow. Some of you may be familiar with Lorin’s sets and some of you may not. Here is a clip from the article which describes his sound:
“DJ Lorin’s (aka Bassnectar) sets are a mind-blowing affair for everyone. The constant barrage of tempo changes, intestine-rattling bass and wide swath of genres keep your interest without sounding too A-D-D. Lorin explains, “I tend to refer to Bassnectar as ‘omnitempo maximalism,’ which means any or all speeds, time signatures, rhythms and every sound source possible. I seem to gravitate toward really heavy tempos, lots of play with double time and half time and using electronic methods to embellish and reinforce other styles of music — maybe ragtime or punk rock or the blues or batucada or polka or salsa or film scores or gangsta rap or beatboxing or Balkan gypsy music or ska.” His genre-defying mixes are a highly personalized blend of beats, edits and remixes that few other DJs can offer, easily separating him from the pack without the normal bucket-load of PR hype. I sat down with Lorin to find out how he gets such a bombastically personal sound”
This will be the last update we post about the VCI-100 Special Edition on the blog. All other updates on shipping dates or purchasing the extras units will be sent out through our new email service here. That being said I have some important news for those that already purchased a VCI-100SE and those that want to purchase one.
When Apple released its I-Phone SDK , developers around the world had a free pass to create anything they could imagine for the multi touch interface. Not surprisingly there has been a small gold rush of apps that allow you to make or manipulate tunes with the newest must have consumer gadget. Here is a short list of some of the interesting ones and not so interesting.
Native Instruments has a impressive record in the software department but their hardware products have less of a history. So when the audio 8 was released many months ago, I was speculative, and held off giving it a try due to the fact that I had already identified several good sound card options. One thing that remains elusive though, is a reasonably priced, high quality sound card that supports direct phonograph inputs. With more and more people using Ms. Pinky, Deck a Dance and tools for Ableton Live time code control, Phono inputs are a good thing to have around.
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