One Year With the Rane MP2015 Rotary Mixer
Rotary mixers! They always have and always will elicit something... and it's usually a very visceral response. So, a little over a year ago when Rane (the noted and established mixer company) hit...
Why Dance Music Streaming Failed
About 18 months ago, as hastily-assembled EDM conglomerate SFX became more and more obvious about transforming its Beatport digital download store into a streaming service that would promote its artists and festivals, someone I...
Beatport Streaming Crashes & Burns
Leading dance music digital download and streaming site Beatport announced today a critical shutdown of services as the once independent unit tries to navigate the difficult bankruptcy of parent company, EDM conglomerate SFX.
In an...
The $10,000 Synth, Now a $30 App
A few years ago, a friend of mine pulled out one of the multiple "303 In An App" apps and gave me a quick demonstration of how it worked. Freed from tactile knobs and...
SoundCloud Wants To Be Your Radio
SoundCloud has flipped the switch on its long-awaited transition into a pure-play streaming service.
The company has enabled "Stations," a Pandora-like feature which reads your likes and loads up a playlist of similar tracks...
Rekordbox DJ is Now Available By Monthly Subscription
Pioneer is now making DJ performance software, and they really want you to try it.
Rekordbox DJ - Pioneer's own DJ software - is now available by monthly subscription.
Pioneer has long been offering their Rekordbox...
Stems: Everything You Wanted To Know But Were Afraid To Ask
If you're a DJ or Producer, it's likely that you'll have seen or heard at least something of Native Instruments (NI) new audio format, called "Stems." But what exactly are Stems, and are they...
Pioneer Patches Six Controllers and Mixers for OS X El Capitan
Upgrade with confidence, or at least only minor terror.
You can cross off one list of apps from the OS X incompatibility list.
Pioneer has unveiled a series of patches on Thursday which fix incompatibility between...
HearThis.At Adds Facebook App, Mixcloud Importing
Nascent music sharing service and potential SoundCloud challenger HearThis.At has announced a suite of new functions as well as increasing overall capacity.
Among the new features announced in a release today:
Facebook App
Need to share music...
Say Hello to Pioneer’s Compact XDJ-700
Pioneer is dropping what the company calls the "most compact, portable and flexible digital player" for DJs yet.
The XDJ-700 is a slimmed down sibling to the Pioneer XDJ-1000, featuring a touchscreen, Pro DJ...
The Record Store’s Revenge: Hard Times for MP3 Sellers
Unless you're Amazon and the market takes your lack of interest in making a profit with good-hearted cheer, this is a tough time to be selling goods in the music industry. It's even harder...
Apple Updates Logic Pro X with a Surprise
Following the release of OS X version 10.10.5 this morning, Apple, Inc. has released an update to its leading-edge audio program, Logic Pro X, with the surprise addition of the Alchemy soft synth packed...
Who’s Afraid of Baboom?
Unless you've been living under a rock for the last few years, you'll almost certainly have heard someone tell you that the music industry is broken. Technology companies, major labels and investment hungry start-ups...
Nobody’s Leaving SoundCloud
Another day, another claim that The Copyclypse is upon us. Social media today is filled with posts by producers large and small, bigroom and bedroom reporting that SoundCloud has begun yet another purge after...
Win a Free Roland TR-8 for #808Day
The 808 drum machine has inspired a documentary and now a holiday.
Roland and the team behind the AIRA product line are marking the adorable advent of #808 day by teaming up to offer...
Beatport Suspends Label Payments
Beatport has notified label owners (in a rather cheeky manner) that it is suspending all payments owed to label owners that sell on the digital download platform until further notice.
The news was first reported...
That Leaked Contract is a Glimpse into Soundcloud’s Future
Digitalmusicnews.com scooped everyone yesterday by publishing what appears to be an agreement between Soundcloud and independent music publishers. That contract (embedded below) shows how desperate the streaming service is to legitimize its content, pivot...
Remix This: SoundCloud to Place Ads On Your Uploads
If you've been frustrated while navigating SoundCloud's draconian takedown process, this news may surprise you. SoundCloud may begin making your upload a streaming advertisement rather than taking it down.
SoundCloud just announced a partnership with...
Some of Your Friends Are Already This Broke: The Problem With Digital Music
"Some of your friends are probably already this fucked."
That's how Steve Albini concluded "The Problem with Music", his famous essay breaking down the malevolent economics of the music industry. It analyzed with mathematical precision...
Beatport Amplify Sells Homepage Space to the Highest Bidder
Beatport has announced that they will begin selling "sponsored" banner positions on their homepage for prices starting at $2000.
The program, called Beatport Amplify, was announced during the Amsterdam Dance Event but hasn't been widely...
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