Over To You: What’s The First Ever Song You Played At A Gig?

Digital DJ Tips reader Danny writes: “Do you remember the first track you ever played at a gig? My first public performance was last summer during the final week of the royal DJ academy in Rhodes, Greece. It was training week and the students got deployed at various clubs and bars to practice playing in…

News Round-Up: 5/1/18

Spotify to go public. Spotify to be sued. LuckyMe address the challenges of streaming. Spotify to go public. The streaming giant, valued at around $15 billion, has secretly filed to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Axios broke the story and Bloomberg confirmed it. Spotify to be sued. Good job they’re valued so…

Friday Five: How Not To Be Replaced By A Robot DJ

In this week’s Friday Five, we’re leading with a piece from ZDNet that focuses on a Prague club’s freshly installed robot DJ and how DJs can be resistant to automation. We’ve also got pieces from Ad Age, The New York Times, Independent, and Magnetic Magazine. Have a great weekend ahead! Here’s The Secret To Being…

Tone2 releases FutureElements soundset for Icarus

Tone2 has released the FutureElements Soundset for their 3D wavetables synth Icarus. The set focuses on the popular and constantly emerging Future genres. Tone2 say it has a colorful palette [Read More] Read the full story

Does SoundCloud Sound Worse Now? Users Claim Reduced Audio Quality

Reports claiming that SoundCloud changed its music streaming compression format surfaced earlier today. Some users have reported a shift in both the streaming audio codec and bitrate from MP3 at 128kbps to Opus 64kbps, which is a relatively new music compression format, and this change has resulted in reduced sound quality. These users say the…

The Unfinished releases Omnisphere Colossus III

The Unfinished has announced the release of Omnisphere Colossus III, a collection of 400 patches for Spectrasonics Omnisphere 2. Here’s what they say: The third part of the Colossus series continues [Read More] Read the full story

Roland Cloud updated to v4.8 – includes JV-1080 VST / AU

Just before Christmas, Roland updated Roland Cloud to v4.8, featuring a software adaptation of one of their most popular synthesizers: The Roland JV-1080. The most famous of the Roland PCM powerhouses, [Read More] Read the full story