Key Of Grey

November 21st, 2009 - After contacting my local Apple stores last week and none of the staff knowing anything about the Vestax Spin, a product exclusive to them, I bought it off of the Apple Canada website. Today was the estimated arrival date and it came right on time (despite what the UPS site said). Since it'll take me a couple days to get a full hardware/software review up (hopefully I'll have it done by Monday or Tuesday), I figured I'd create a ... Read More

Photo courtesy of Vestax March 17th, 2009 - There is a lot of great DJ software out there that allows the modern DJ to leave the record crates at home. Unfortunately, while there are great time-coded vinyl solutions on the market, DJ MIDI controllers have not previously been good for much more than controlling FX, and straight up mixing. But what about the turntablists and scratch DJ's out there? If you had wanted to do turntablist-type things with a DJ controller previously, you had ... Read More

Photo courtesy of Impact Sounds February 14th, 2009 - I am not a DJ. Although I write and produce music with some of the songwriting characteristics of Producer-DJ's, I do not have that skill-set. This has always been a weakness of which I'm fully aware, and I've always planned to remedy it. This is not to say I have never laid my hands on 1200's and vinyl, I just don't do it regularly and I haven't had enough time to get good at it. ... Read More