Want to take a Midi Fighter Twister and turn it into a real-time, Ableton-based, audio-reactive visualizer? Today's tutorial by DJTT ...

Depression and other mental disorders are more common than it seems in the art world, especially for musical artists. Despite their prevalence, very little is said about these issues. In this article, ...

Ean is back with another episode of DJ Fundamentals – this time looking specifically at DJ music library organization. Tagging tracks is a great way to make finding great matches easy in the moment of ...

When DJ TechTools hit me up to do a review of the new Twelve MKIIs I was stoked, but not entirely surprised. Anybody following Rane and/or watching DJ Jazzy Jeff’s livestream knew this update was ...

Those madlads at Pioneer DJ (aka AlphaTheta) did it! After years of speculation, fan-made concept art, and wishful thinking, the company dropped the PLX-CRSS12 on the unsuspecting DJ community – and ...

It seems that you may have enjoyed my last entry on the weird DJ gear out there, so I am back with a few more items that may have been forgotten through the eons of time. Today, we’ll explore four ...

Extraneous “workflow debt” in the Performance Pads: Product designers at Pioneer DJ, and now Alphatheta, seem to be reluctant to remove features that were added to a product family in the past (ie: ...

5. Transitions. Stereotypically, dance music DJs favor beatmatching, Hip Hop DJs cutting, and radio DJs fading. While you can make an excellent mix with any single transition type, using a combination ...

It’s an all-too-familiar story: a DJ of any experience level with plenty of mixing skills, fancy DJ gear, and the latest killer tracks, but no gigs in sight. As DJing continues to grow in popularity ...

Key Features. Take a look at the major features worth noting on the DDJ-GRV6: Groove Circuit – You can swap out drum parts of a track – even while it’s playing – with different loops across genres.

Yes, in terms of the technology behind it, this is different – but the result is very similar. Native Instruments’ Stem separation engine sounds pretty good – so naturally I asked them to share more ...

Much of the basis behind the current state of DJing and electronic dance music came from the first generations of raves. Starting with a Roland TB-303 in Chicago, growing to undergrounds in the UK, ...