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SOUNDBYTES
News
TECH
NEW
PACEMAKER!
THE PACEMAKER POSSE have just announced a
new, cheaper version of the world’s smallest
SERATO
DJ device. The half-pint Pacemaker 60GB
PRESSINGS
brings the price down from £469 to £299
Serato pressed more of
and will be readily available across the
their control discs than
UK’s DJ stores and HMV in April.
any other 12” in the
The new fi rmware that will work on
past 14 years. And
both players is out now and features
now, following the
one-button automix, and a visual
success of their limited
beatmatching aid.
edition vinyl, Serato
There’s a host of new effects too, such
are launching their
as Crush and Phase EQ (wah), which
own label. Serato
can be freely assigned to the four FX
Pressings will release
slots. Crates and letter searching has
music on vinyl, but
been added to the vastly improved
with the time-code
track navigation.
signal on Side B to
We got the lowdown recently and
control ScratchLive.
made a little video for djmag.tv.
serato.com/pressings
Pacemaker also made their online
audio player into a widget so users
TOBY
can embed it in websites and blogs.
pacemaker.net
EMERSON
CAN’T LIVE
WITHOUT...
ACCESS
SWITCHBOX
Magma’s new
VIRUS TI
Check the exclusive video at
Switchbox Digital-DJ
djmag.tv
“When I fi rst heard that they
makes it easy for DJs to
were making an Access Virus that
connect their DVS
you could use as a VSTi, I was
(digital vinyl system)
sold before it even came
in the middle of a club
out. Using hardware always
night. Connect a pair
seemed like a bit of a pain to me
of turntables and CDJs
but with the Total Integration
along with two DVSs,
(TI) it is easier than ever.
such as Traktor and
“The fi rst releases from Access
Serato, and jump
were a bit buggy, but since then
between the two for
they have done a great job
back-to-back DVS sets.
listening to the customers and
It’s £119 from
updating the software. Now it
magma-bags.de.
runs very well.
“There are thousands of presets
that are really easy to search
through — anything from
relaxing pads to weird sounds I
can only describe as robot mating
GIGPAY
calls!
“I fi rst bought this thing when I
was really into producing
A new website aimed at promoters has taken a strong foothold
over-the-top trance tracks but
now my style has moved to a
in helping organisers take credit card payments on the
hybrid of electro-house and
internet. Unlike PayPal, gigpay.com has been designed
trance, which the Virus seems to
be perfect for.
specifi cally for selling tickets and paying artists and it’s quite “I can only hope more hardware
reasonably priced at just 0.8% of the transactions.
developers start developing more
synths that you can use in the
same way as the Virus TI.”
www.djmag.com
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