Loopmasters has announced its Vestax VCI-380 Competition, a chance to win the ITCH controller from Vestax.
VCI-380 is a 2 channel DJ controller with a built-in Digital DJ mixer, powerful and creative, opening the door to limitless possibilities of controllerism.
Over the next few weeks we are giving five lucky people the chance to win a Vestax VCI-380 Controller – The Vestax VCI-380 is the new ITCH controller from Vestax. It features 5 performances modes, Pad FX and a stand-alone mixer & provides an arsenal of musical craft tools with perfect integrity, straight out of the box. Now is your chance to win one FREE.
Winners will be announced each Monday on the Loopmasters Facebook page. Entries will be accepted until August 12 at 5pm EST.
Juno Download has announced the TEKKEN Tag Tournament 2 Remix Competition, a chance to mix tracks of the upcoming game.
To mark the upcoming release of the game TEKKEN Tag Tournament 2, Juno has teamed up with NAMCO BANDAI Games to give budding producers the chance to remix tracks from the game’s original soundtrack.
The remix stems for six different tracks are available to download for free from Juno Download, and remixers can upload their track to the TEKKEN remix competition SoundCloud dropbox for a chance to win these amazing prizes
Remix competition prizes
First prize winner will receive:
€500 cash prize.
Avid Fast Track C400 audio interface and Pro Tools MP software.
Vestax VCI-380 controller for Serato.
Novation Impulse 61 Keyboard Controller.
12 month SoundCloud Pro account.
€200 Juno vouchers.
Mixed In Key and Platinum Notes.
Tekken Tag Tournament 2 ‘We Are Tekken’ collector’s edition.
A professionally mastered copy of their remix to be released on the official winning remixes free download EP.
Four runners up will each receive:
€250 cash prize.
12 month SoundCloud Pro account.
€50 Juno vouchers.
Mixed In Key and Platinum Notes.
Tekken Tag Tournament 2 ‘We Are Tekken’ collector’s edition.
A professionally mastered copy of their remix to be released on the official winning remixes free download EP.
The submission phase of the remix competition ends July 16th, 2012. Winners will be selected by the TEKKEN development team, and announceed via the Juno Download Facebook Page and Tekken Facebook Page on July 23rd, 2012.
Vestax has announced that its VCI-380 performance controller is now shipping.
The Vestax VCI-380 2 Channels USB MIDI controller for Serato ITCH.
VCI-380 is a 2 channel DJ controller with a built-in Digital DJ mixer, powerful and creative, opening the door to limitless possibilities of controllerism.
Mix, scratch, cue, effect, sample, trigger, loop and slice. Every feature of the VCI-380 is optimized to enhance the DJs performance and take a new approach in manipulating music.
Designed hand in hand with Serato, VCI-380 is bundled with ITCH, providing an arsenal of musical craft tools with perfect integrity, straight out of the box.
VCI-380 features
2 Channels USB MIDI controller for Serato ITCH.
Built-in 24Bit/48kHz audio interface.
2 x 8 Performance Pads with Velocity & Aftertouch.
5 performance modes (Hot Cue, Auto Loop, Slicer, Roll, Sampler).
PAD FX function.
Channel FX controls.
Ribbon (strip) control for Pad parameters and Needle Drop.
Large scale 5 1/3 inch jog wheels with needle position display.
2 Channel stand-alone audio mixer with Phono / Line input.
Hi-Pass filter, Trim and 3 band Eq on stand-alone mixer..
To celebrate the release of the VCI-380 Vestax has teamed up with Loopmasters and put together an exclusive FREE 500MB pack of content suitable for users of the VCI-380. Each VCI-380 includes a download ticket that grants access to the FREE 500MB pack.
Mixxx, the free, open source software for performing live DJ mixes, was updated to version 1.8.0.
Developed by a diverse community of DJs, Mixxx is a complete replacement for a conventional “turntables and mixer” DJ setup, and is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
“Deere” skin, new in Mixxx 1.8.0
Changes since Mixxx v1.7.2
Looping
Loop-in, Loop-out, and Reloop/Exit buttons added to our main skins.
Loop point indicators on main waveforms and waveform summary displays.
Hot cues
Most of our skins gained 4 hot cue buttons, and Mixxx now internally supports up to 32 hot cues per deck.
A brand new database-powered library, with:
iTunes library and playlists access (Windows and Mac OS X)
Rhythmbox library and playlists access (Linux)
A brand new, faster library scanner
Crates!
A simple Auto DJ mode, which crossfades to the next track in the Auto DJ queue.
Analyze view, which allows you to run bulk BPM detection on your songs
Featured Artists bundle (Windows and Mac OS X)
Revamped Song Properties dialog
Re-arrangeable, hide-able columns
Tons of new artwork:
New Deere, Shade, Phoney, and LateNight skins
Better descriptions in tooltips and snazzy new look
MIDI
New PortMidi-based MIDI device backend, supports using multiple devices at once
Vestax has announced the Pad-One, a portable MIDI pad controller.
The Vestax PAD-One is a solid robust MIDI pad controller, compatible with various DJ & DAW software and can be used to control any kind of MIDI device, including synthesizers, samplers, drum machines, and electronic drums.
The aluminum chassis will never warp or crack, ensuring you long life durability and stability. The PAD-One can individually assign pads on the fly, and shows you each pads MIDI value on the 7seg indicator. Compact, solid and reliable, the PAD One is the ideal item to your DJ arsenal.
Pad-One features
12 velocity & pressure sensitive LED backlit pads.
Individual LED color for each bank.
MIDI message for each pad can be selected with the PAD-One.
Real time control XY touch pad.
Solid aluminum die-casted robust chassis .
Full control of ROLL button tempo with the TAP button.
MIDI cable connection for control over various effect and sampler devices.
Xylio has released version 2.0.2 of FutureDecks Pro, a DJ mixing software for Windows and Mac.
With FutureDecks Pro you can really mix your songs, nothing else needed but your imagination. Beat-matching is just a click away and also are seamless beat-aware loops, effects and many other things. All these thanks to a brand new audio engine.
Changes in FutureDeck Pro v2.0.2
Vestax VCI-100 support.
Up/down buttons in the playlist scroll bar.
Key value moves in exactly +/- 1 semitone when using shortcuts.
Key change label bug fixed.
Single shareware version (no more demo + full separate versions).
Several small bugs fixed.
FutureDeck Pro v2.0 is available to purchase for $99 / €79 / £59. The upgrade is free for those who purchased v1.x after August 1, 2009.
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