In a statement released this morning, the AlphaTheta Corporation, known as the designer and developer of Pioneer DJ has announced new products under a new brand AlphaTheta. For 30 years, since the introduction of the CDJ-500 in 1994, Pioneer DJ has been the market leader for professional DJ products. Walk into 90% of the booths…
Are you keeping up? Pioneer are now AlphaTheta. And AlphaTheta have announced a new brand. Drum roll… Called – Alpha Theta. Here’s the press release: January 23, 2024: AlphaTheta Corporation, the designer and developer of products under the name Pioneer DJ, is pleased to announce new products under the brand AlphaTheta. Since the introduction of the CDJ-500…
Just ahead of the NAMM Show 2024, a new DJ brand has been announced. “AlphaTheta” is the latest name to be added to the existing stable of brands from AlphaTheta Corporation, the company that owns Pioneer DJ, Rekordbox, Toraiz, Pioneer Pro Audio and Kuvo. You may remember that back in 2020 Pioneer DJ officially changed…
Serato DJ is one of the most popular laptop DJ programs, and a good choice if you’re a DJ who plays hip-hop, open-format sets, who wants to scratch… but it’s equally at home with house and electronic music, too. Features-wise it has most of what you want, including the new “battleground” feature for DJ software…
Steve Ack, the developer behind Neural Amp Modeler, released ParametricOD, a freeware guitar distortion pedal plugin for Windows and macOS. Neural Amp Modeler has proven to be a popular piece of software with guitarists. I’ve seen all manner of gear, from boutique amps to studio outboard processors, captured. One of the dreams, so to speak,…
As a DJ, unless you spin with records or CDs exclusively (which very few people do nowadays), you are going to need to choose a DJ software platform. This is one of the biggest decisions you’ll make in your DJing, akin to a music producer deciding if they want to use Ableton Live, Logic Pro…
The new iRig Stream Mic USB is an affordable USB mic that’s really good for DJs wanting to add a microphone to DJ livestreams when streaming with a Mac, Windows PC or even with a tablet. That’s because as well as a high-quality directional condenser mic, this unit is also a stereo audio interface, meaning…
For many DJs, a DJ controller is the perfect way to play. Plugging into your laptop and using your laptop’s processor, memory and hard drive to do all the important stuff like storing your music and handling playback, effects and so on, the controller gives you a tactile surface for your decks and mixer, a…