DJ Music

I’m not sure what to make of this, from the video the easiest way to describe it is as a DJ sequencer that uses a karate chop motion to splice together the different music elements.  the DJ chopping board- thats what I’m going to call it, looks like it has a row of pads that control each music element, on the right theres a volume fader and a pitch fader. I guess this is a primitive home made version of an MPC, however this looks more dramatic and potentially due to the layout could help scratch DJs with an additional tool they can use, mid scratch.

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I’ve always been a fan of the internet, after all I wouldn’t be spending the time working on DJ Music if this wasn’t the case, But lets have a look at how this has affected the DJ culture and DJing in General. You’ll probably be surprised to find out that DJing is now more than a reality on the web, with progressions such as iTunes, DJ software and hardware like the Pacemaker and Pocket computer leading the way. Interestingly with people getting broadband and interent speeds becoming faster it has now become possible to DJ Music directly on the web, literally this means that you no longer even need software, just a login and web browser with internet and you can DJ away.

Two of the key examples of this are: Splice, and  Music shake, both essentially work on the same principle, you get clips of tracks and put them together in squence, add effects and voila DJing on the internet, all you need to do is create an account with the site, and you can start to edit tracks and make your own remixes, you can then save these tracks and publish them to the DJ community on each site. The Potential of this kind of DJ innovation is that programs such as the beatport mixer, tracktor and ableton will become readily available to use online straight through your browser potentially for free. This would mean it would be cheaper and DJ equipment could be made smaller.

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Pacemaker will be offering new updates to both the Pacemaker Music DJ software, and the Pacemaker portable DJ unit. After the inital launch this month, user trials and feedback have meant continuous upgrades will be made available regularly.

Upgrades for the Pacemaker to be available 1st week of April:

Pacemaker device
• Assorted bug fixes: crash problems, saving settings, disrupt lineout functionality, playback functionality and user interface improvements.

Pacemaker Editor
• Assorted bug fixes: crash problems, importing tracks, usage of external hard drives (Windows), BPM analysing, ordering of tracks in mix (Windows) and user interface improvements.

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