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Count The Beats: Hey DJ, play us a song...

by Matt Tinsley (RSS feed) on Oct 29th, 2009

Here in the UK, it's getting pretty chilly on the willy compared to a month ago, or so. The warm memories of the summer are slowly dwindling to the reality of earlier, darker evenings (the clocks have just gone forward) as well as tentative first visits from our old friend Jack Frost. Generally speaking, the cold grasp of winter is steadily fastening on us (or not).

But we are blessed with a few heart warming occasions over the winter season (Christmas, New Years Eve etc) that make the cold, well, a little less nippy on the bone. One of these such occasions is, of course, Guy Fawkes night (Remember remember the 5th of November...) And, to me, that means one thing, HOUSE PARTY! And what does a great house party need? An authentic DJ.

So when I heard my main man Dan the DJ couldn't make the party (or at the least lend me his decks) I turned to the next best thing, Sonorasaurus - the first complete deejay setup for the iPhone / iPod Touch.

At this point you may be wondering what a DJ app has to do with 'Count The Beats', or, in fact making music on an Apple platform, but it quite literally has everything to do with it. Come on, we all know that deejays are real musicians too, right?

Continue reading “Count The Beats: Hey DJ, play us a song...”

Tags: audio, count the beats, CountTheBeats, dj, features, guy fawkes, GuyFawkes, iphone, mixing, music

Filed under: Audio, iPod Family, Multimedia, Software, iPhone

Create Digital Music rounds up iTouch / iPhone music apps

by Joshua Ellis (RSS feed) on Sep 3rd, 2008

The lovely and talented Peter Kirn over at Create Digital Music has posted a round up of music apps for the iPod / iTouch platform. The list includes tools for using your iPhone as a MIDI/OSC controller, making random weird digital art, visualizing your music and, er, listening to Snow Patrol's next album, amongst other apps. Peter's a thoughtful critic and his evaluations are pretty detailed and thorough.

If you're an aspiring iPhone musician / DJ/ sound designer, this is definitely a good place to start finding useful apps.

Tags: audio, dj, iphone, ipod-touch, midi, music, sound, visualizer

Filed under: Audio, Software

djay - a "groundbreaking" audio application

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on Aug 20th, 2006

djay, as you can see, is a "groundbreaking" new audio app that offers a slew DJ-oriented features to get your party started, including:

Real-time audio mix transmission over Bonjour network
Real-time audio mix recording
iTunes Integration
Automatic artwork image loading on both turntables
Time-Stretching
Pitch-Shifting with amazing blend effect
Audio Unit Effects Support
Pre-Cueing (requires multichannel sound card)
Crossfade automation
Magnetic tempo slider for precise beat matching
GarageBand instruments integration via network
AppleScriptability for mixing automation

and a whole lot more. Seriously, I had to whittle out quite a bit from djay's feature list just to fit these key points into the post. I'm not a DJ myself, but checking this out sure makes me wish I was.

All these features come in (what looks like) a slick package for the low, low price of $0; in fact, I can't even find a donation link at the product's site, algoriddim.net (clever). If any more DJ-capable TUAW readers check this out, please share a few words of your wisdom with the rest of the class.

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Tags: audio, dj, djay, mixing, parties, party

Filed under: Retail

Apple Store Lincoln Road opening July 21st at 6 pm

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on Jul 18th, 2006

We just received word that the Apple Store Lincoln Road in Miami Beach, FL will be opening this Friday, July 21st at 6 pm. As usual, there will be t-shirt giveaways to the first 1000 customers, and a Grand Opening Sweepstakes valued at $2229. The winner will receive a 17-inch flat-panel Intel Core Duo iMac, an iPod nano, a Canon PowerShot SD450 digital camera, a Sony Handycam CCD-TRV138, and an HP Deskjet 5440 printer. As an added bonus from 6-9 pm, the store will be featuring DJ Martin Accorsi.

You guys know the drill - send in some pictures (preferably Flickr sets) from the events and we'll post the antics for the world to see.

Thanks Emil.

Tags: apple store, AppleStore, dj, event, giveaway, grand opening, GrandOpening, lincoln road, LincolnRoad, martin accorsi, MartinAccorsi, retail, sweepstakes

Filed under: Audio, iPod Family, Open Source

iPod as turntable with iScratch

by Dave Caolo (RSS feed) on May 1st, 2006

Many DJ's have added iPods to their setups, and some cool equipment has been made available for them. Now, here's a piece of software for you all to use: iScratch.

iScratch lets you scratch and reverse audio tracks on your iPod, using the scroll wheel as you would a turn table. Note that iScratch requires you to install Linux on your iPod, so you have been warned.

So, with that in mind, get to it. iScratch is free and open source.

Tags: dj, ipod, iscratch, linux

Filed under: iPod Family

Numark introduces iDJ Mixing Console for iPod

by Dave Caolo (RSS feed) on Aug 11th, 2005

Back in April, C.K. reported on a prototype of this device, but the sketchy details available at the time didn't indicate whether or not it would ever see the light of day. The good news is, today is that day.

The iDJ allows your iPod to become a legitimate source playback device. It's a 2-channel mixer that features two iPod docking stations (that fit all model iPods!), a 3 band EQ with gain on both channels, a dedicated mic, phono/line inputs, a turntable spindle receptacle for connecting your vinyl and more. It's finished in polished white to compliment your iPod(s), charges docked iPods and allows for transfer of music to an iPod via a USB connection.

You can find a list of your local resellers here. While specific pricing/shipping information is not available on the Numark website, I called a music store in my area, and was told that they expect to have them in stock by the end of the month, and priced in the "$250-ish" range. Update: It looks like the iDJ will be available in October, and retail for $400US.

Tags: console, dj, ipod, mixingboard

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