DJ Magazine 481 January 2010

TECH
News
DJ DOCTOR
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Dear DJ Doctor,
Styled to match Vestax’s VCI-300 controller
My girlfriend wants to get into digital DJing but I’m not sure how
as well as other Itch DJ controllers, the VFX1
to advise her. She previously used two decks but that doesn’t
(£185) is a standalone hardware unit that
satisfy her any more and she wants to try something a little more
adventurous. What do you suggest?
gives instant access to the new FX
Tim
found in version two of the Itch
software.
It’s very simple to use too: just select
DJ Doc replies,
There are plenty of options to take your girlfriend’s DJing to the
the desired effect with the rotary
next level. Depending on her skill set in regards to computers, I’d
effect dial and the ‘beat’ knob
suggest she try Ableton Live. This is a great DJing tool but also then allows quick selection of the
offers a lot more, especially if she decides to move into
desired beat timings. A large
production. Once tracks have been warped in Ableton, aligning
silver ‘depth’ knob is assigned
the beats so the tracks will play in time, all she has to do then is
work out her set.
to give control over the depth
If she has been used to playing with two decks then maybe look parameter of each effect,
at Native Instruments’
while the ‘mod’ knob
Traktor. This keeps the
determines how much
essence and ideology of
two-deck mixing but will
modulation is applied.
also allow her to beat sync Pushing down the mod
the tracks she wants to mix.
knob gives advanced
If she already knows her
access to extra parameters.
way around the decks then
maybe she should look at
vestax.com
Seratro, which is very
similar to Traktor but there
PERFORMANCE ART
is no auto beat syncing,
meaning she’ll need to rely
Stanton’s new two-channel scratch mixer, the
on her mixing skills.
M.207, offers even more performance control
for the scratch DJ.
A sturdy little beast that will take the rigours
GOT A BURNING QUESTION?
of a tough DJ session, the M.207 includes an
FXGlide touch-sensitive strip for controlling
effects, and the FX control can be automated
SEND your query to the
in real-time. This allows DJs to create a custom
modulation of the FX parameter, which can
DJ Doctor at
be played back instead of the normal
djdoc@djmag.com sweeping FX.
and you could
A rather nice little addition is the new set of
win the wicked
EQ frequency effects, which can be applied
to any of three speciﬁ c EQ frequency bands
AKG K81 headphones.
without affecting the other frequencies. The
M.207 also comes with a phrase/loop sampler
for capturing samples on-the-ﬂ y and
throwing into the mix. stantondj.com
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