Mackie showed off its new M Series monitor at teh NAMM tradde show. The new monitor is a faster, louder, better release and doesn’t really have anything remarkable or new in it.

We wish the corp team at Mackie thee best of luck but seriously guys releasing a product thats the same as the last one is just lame.

New M Series Monitors

Looks like Jen got caught being a naughty girl ! UTRaves points out that she was last seen fiddling her bits on some video with Dara. I have seen the videos and I don’t know what to think. I definitly think though that this is an accident and not an on purpose PR stunt. Otherwise being the talented musicians they are they would have picked a better sound track.

The 8th annual Dj Awards were held on the 29th of September at the Pascha club in Ibiza. Pioneer won the award for the best technology for 2005. The honor was bestowed to Pioneer this year for helping push the limits of technology for djs. The European marketing manager, Mark Groetfeld, accepted the award for Pioneer.

• Pioneer forums post about it
• Article on the 2005 DJ awards
• Italian blog entry on the djs that won
• Entry on MSN

Roland released a new sampler called the SP-404. The SP-404 replaced the SP-303. The newly released sampler, designed with the 303 as the foundation, had several new features. The new features added included increased pads, memory, and voices. Roland also added a inline microphone which made sampling easier.

I noticed to today that Cakewalk released a new version of Pyro.

That really isn’t news in and of itself though.

Here is what they say about it:

Cakewalk Pyro was the first consumer digital music management product to offer an integrated system where users could play, organize, edit, and share mix CDs of their favorite music; digitize and restore LPs and cassettes; create MP3s; record Internet broadcasts; and create data CDs; all from one easy-to-use interface. New version 5 adds ringtone creation and delivery, disc burning enhancements, improved audio editing, enhanced support for portable players, and more.

Whay I found interesting was that this cheap program can be used to create ringtones. Interesting.

Have you ever sat around after a great party with your friends ? I know I have, worn out and tired discussing the nights events and things to come. Sometimes during those discussions we would talk about how cool it would be if Microsoft started up a website for dj’s. Man that would be awesome…

uhm ok back to reality.. it never crossed our minds.. microsoft.. music.. doesn’t really sound like something the maker of Windows and Internet Explorer would be interested in. Well it turns out they are interested.

Microsoft has started up a community site for “electronic artists” called Crossfader. The site is well designed and has a polished look that few sites for the dj community have had.

Crossfader has a message board that is broken up in two sections. The first a section is called “The Booth”. The Booth is geared towards the discussion of genres of music. It has a forum for the all the general electronic dance music genres and one for hip hop. The second section, called “The Knowledge”, is for technical discussion. In the section “The Knowledge” there are forums covering gear, performance tips, and promotion. The forums are not very active yet, but since the site is new that is understandable.

Also the site has some limited content in the form of writing and music. The writing was interesting but read more like a blog than a professional writing. The music was top notch offered in formats for Windows Media Player and regular mp3.

The question though is will a community of traditionally underground artists thrive on a corporate run site ? It is interesting that Microsoft would release a website in such an informal fashion. If they maintain the informal atmosphere the site might retain the trust of the dj’s.

So will Microsoft be at the Winter Music Conference next year with DJ’s ?

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