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I went to the NAMM show this weekend and the one product that blew me away
(and this coming from a non-DJ) was the Numark Axis-8 DJ CD player.
It's more like an actual musical instrument. It has MIDI in and out, and it
has a feature where you can hook a MIDI keyboard to it and control the CD
music like a sampler. It can also output MIDI clock to drive a drum machine
or sequencer which would follow the tempo of the music, even when the picth
control is changed.
And for the vinylheads out there, check this, Numark demoed this prototype
device that hooks on to the side of a standard turntable. You put a special
13" wooden record on the turntable and it drives the device and controls
the CD player. Everything a DJ does to the turntable - pitch change, RPM
change, start/stop, nudging speed and even scratching -- the CD audio responds.
The Azxis-8 is also firmware-upgradeable. The company will have updates
available on their website, where owners can download, burn to a CD-R and
the CD player will read the data and update its features. Forget the
Pioneer CDJ ($1299 list), it's the Numark Axis8! ($699 list)
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: . elson trinidad, los angeles, california, usa
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