We've long been fans of Traktor. More than any PC DJing software, it offers a simple route into DJing that doesn't involve any expensive hardware. It makes sense to find out if you can match a beat ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. So! You wanna be a DJ? Join the club! There are zillions of ways to get into music curation, and the next step up ...

Digital DJing has always been a contentious topic and, while it's struggled to gain legitimacy in the eyes of more traditional DJs, for better or worse, technology is moving on. However you choose to ...

Here's one for you fact fans: in the 60s a man called Francis Grasso invented a DJing technique called 'beatmixing'. People were leaving the dancefloor in the gaps between songs, so Grasso kept people ...

Let’s start with some background — I’ve been a DJ, behind turntables, for nearly 17 years. In that time, I’ve seen trends, fads and the things that have stuck around. As the lowly Technics 1200 ...

Native Instruments has launched the third version of its Traktor X1 DJ controller, and it looks like the most significant update yet. The entirely new layout is the most obvious change, and NI say ...

DJing (or is that deejaying?) on the iPad is pretty rad, but what do you do about cueing up the next track? If you’ve got $20 to spend, you can buy the Traktor DJ cable, a splitter that lets you cue a ...

Last fall, Native Instruments gave its DJ and production hardware a significant refresh, especially at the entry level. Today, the company is introducing a second wave of tools to complement the new ...