About Synthtopia | RSS News Feeds | Submit Items For Review | Feedback



Hercules Mobile DJ MP3, a prosumer-style digital DJ controller, is now available for $99.99, in black or white.
While it’s a consumer-oriented product, it looks like it provides a lot of functionality for the price.
The mixer is powered by two C batteries and has a dual LCD display that lets you pick tracks and mix them, [...]

 

At the Summer NAMM Show, Tascam introduced the new MP-BT1 Bass trainer and the MP-VT1 Music and Vocal trainer. The new MP3 trainers feature Tascam’s VSA technology (Variable Speed Audition (pitch control w/o affecting key).
“Tascam’s family of MP3 trainers is the world’s first music player for musicians, and we’ve completely designed it to fit your [...]

 

MachineCodex has released a new public beta of MachineHead, an alternative media player for OS X that lets you slow it down, pitch it up, loop it, warp it, manipulate it, slap it up, flip it, rub it down - oh no!
Features:

Pitch Shifting: -1200 to +1200Hz
Time Shifting: 1/4x to 4x speed
Opens most audio files
Opens [...]

 

Cortex has released its dMIX-300 Digital Music Control Station, a compact all-in-one iPod mixing solution for the Digital DJ.
Integrating Cortex’s patent pending USB compatible technology with a 2-channel audio mixer and a built-in iPod Dock (suitable for all iPod models), DJ’s can search, cue, play, pitch, mix and even scratch digital music files (MP3 or [...]

 

Musikmesse: Stanton DJ introduced the new S.300 Tabletop CD Player w/ MP3 along with the complete DJ DIGIPAK.MP3 package that includes two S.300s, an SMX.211 mixer, a custom road case, and cabling.
The Stanton S.300 is a professional quality tabletop CD player with MP3 compatibility and anti-shock buffer memory.

Features:

Single table top CD player with MP3 playback
Anti-shock [...]

 

At the 2007 NAMM Show, Cortex made a variety of introductions for DJs:

HDC-1000 - New Software Update Available
The NAMM show marked the debut of the latest free software and database manager update for the HDC-1000.
V1.8.10 contains new features such as Scratch capability, Playlist Creation ability (using the new Cortex Database Manager V 2.4 (Special Edition [...]

 

Toto Japan has introduced the ultimate toilet seat/MP3 player, the Apricot series toilet seat.
Not content to settle for the usual high-tech toilet gadgets, such as a seat-heater, automatic washer and robotic action, Toto has added a full-fledged MP3 player with SD card slot.
We’re not making this up.
The control panel can be attached to the wall. [...]

 

Sony has introduced a new MP3 player, called Walkman, available in two capacity sizes - 20GB (NW-A3000) and 6GB (NW-A1000).
Featuring an advanced organic EL display (2 inches on the 20GB NW-A3000 version and 1.5 inches on the 6GB NW-A1000 model), the Sony Walkman features two new shuffle functions.
By selecting ‘My Favorite Shuffle’, the device automatically [...]