Electronic Dance Music News, DJ Gear & Tech, South Africa
Five Tips to buying music gear online Unlike South Africa, buying gear online is as natural as eating sliced bread in Europe, Asia and the US of A. The fact that there are only a half a dozen options for buying music gear online in SA, would suggest that the greater buying public are still […]
5 Black Friday Gear sales with great specials Black Friday is an American day that is ‘celebrated’ the day after Thanksgiving and it kicks off the country’s Christmas shopping season. But the whole globe seems to have gotten onboard and this means everybody is offering Black Friday specials on Friday 24 November. Side Note: […]
Hybrid Plus PK Series Bundle Deal Viva Afrika are currently running a bundle deal on their Hybrid Plus PK Series of loudspeakers. Hybrid Plus is Viva’s premium inhouse brand and consists of several ranges of loudspeakers from portable ground stacked, to line array and club installation speakers too. The Hybrid Plus PK Series consists of […]
The Lyric Speaker displays lyrics for any song played Asia loves their Karaoke so this Lyric Speaker from a company called Cotodama is not that big a surprise. Hand built in Tokyo the Lyric Speaker is a rather sought-after loudspeaker with only 15 being produced each month. Not only does it display the lyrics of […]
Denon DJ Prime Series now fully Serato compatible Hot on the heels of the announcement that the Denon DJ SC5000 Media Player has had a firmware update which has made the unit cross-compatible with Pioneer DJ’s rekordbox, comes the news that the Denon DJ Prime series is now fully compatible with Serato DJ. This was […]
Denon DJ SC5000 Prime Firmware update offers rekordbox integration The Denon DJ SC5000 Prime has just received a firmware update with two significant features that will please those that have invested in these media players or anybody that may be looking at them as an alternative to the Pioneer DJ Nexus series of decks. The […]
Denon Conversion Utility converts rekordbox library to Engine Prime It had to happen and it has; someone has created an app called the Denon Conversion Utility (DeCU) which will seamlessly pull your entire rekordbox collection into Denon DJ’s Engine Prime music management software- or better still – simply add SC5000 Prime compatibility to a rekordbox […]
Monkey Banana – a passion to offer affordable, quality studio monitors Monkey Banana is a German based loudspeaker company that specialise in affordable studio monitors. As with most electronics, with loudspeakers one can generally expect to get what you pay for. So, spend under R 10k for a set of nearfield studio monitors and any […]
Rumours of Microsoft music making software surface Speculation that Microsoft music making software is on the cards surfaced online thanks to a forum post on KVR. The thread reads, “My team at Microsoft is looking for audio software engineers and program managers with experience building best-in-class products. If you want to be a part of […]
SAE launches Music Business Fundamentals Short Course SAE Institute in Cape Town has just launched a new 8 week short course called Music Business Fundamentals. The course will commence on 3 October and runs two nights per week on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Facilitated by Damian Malgas, who lectures 2nd year music degree students in Music […]
