Pioneer New Wireless DJ System XDJ-AERO

So Pioneer launched this video yesterday showing of their new product: The XDJ-AERO! I just took a VERY quick look at it and jumped to conclusions as usual.
It looks like Pioneer is vamping up their Record box software to include a wireless deck control for smart phone via WLAN which is controlling the new XDJ-AERO.

It's kind of like the SmartGlass feature from Microsoft, but then again no...

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Twitter.dj in use

A couple of weeks ago I posted about twitter.dj which is a new way of totaly embrasing the social media experience while DJing. Posting all your played tracks continuesly and effortlessly to Twitter. Super easy to set up and super easy to use! I've been playing around with it for a couple of weeks now and it is a pretty cool tool.


Setting it up (On PC):
1. Install the software from

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Track Prep Tools for S2 and S4

Setting beatgrids, cuepoints and making them ready for playing in Traktor is important to always know that your track is ready to go when you're gonna use them. In know that I'm not good enough to do this my self and mainly that is because it's a hassle and there is a lot of things to take in to account and the parameters isn't easily available.

DJ Techtools made this cool mapping for Traktor

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Update: Traktor Pro 2.5.1

A new update is available and it fixes a whole lot of stuff that was wrong in the 2.5 release. Some of them I haven't even noticed or wasn't that much of a fuzz, but some are pretty important. There's a lot done with the integration to Pioneer CDJ's utalizing the HID integration to a MUCH larger extent.

All of the updates are listed below, but I took the time to highlight the important ones

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Native Instrument supergroup: Mostly Robot

So what do you get when you put a whole lot of Native Instruments "super users" together and tell them to play some music?





Mostly Robot consists of:
Jamie Lidell - Vocals (Traktor)
DJ Shiftee - Turntables (Traktor Scratch)
Tim Exile - Effects and Loops (Reaktor)
Mr. Jimmy - Keyboard (Komplete)
Jeremy Ellis - Beats (Maschine)
Pfadfinderei - Visuals

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Numark 4Trak Review

The controller has been on the market for some time now, but it intregued me enough to take a closer look when I recently stumbled uppon a review by DJ Worx. So without getting my hands on the controller I'll take a shot at reviewing the controller based on the information that is available online and give you my reflected thoughts on the matter.

Traktor version:
It comes with a special

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Remix Set™ Preparation: Basics

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