Check out the new video featuring DJ Jungleboy rocking Serato Scratch Live with the Stanton SCS.3d multi-touch USB controller below.

And Gamespot has also posted a video showing off Numark’s upcoming Scratch DJ videogame controller.

Stanton also alerted us to another cool demo video for both the Stanton SCS.3d (deck) and SCS.3m (mixer) controllers with Atlanta IDM, sound design and DJ impresario Richard Devine, shown below.

Number of tumbleweeds spotted blowing through the aisles of the 2009 NAMM Show: 0.

Number of dopedy-dope new products for DJs and producers of electronic and hip-hop music: at least the following 13.

While attendance at the annual Anaheim, CA trade show occurring Jan. 15-18 may have been down a bit, attitudes were upbeat, and booths were filled with new innovations for making 2009 another year sacrificed to the art of making music.

This quick snapshot of 13 hits only represents a slice of the newness on offer, and we’ll be following up this week with full, more detailed show reports on the new hardware and software from NAMM 2009.

ABLETON LIVE 8

You didn’t think this German freight train was derailed did you?

Like clockwork, Ableton cranks out a major update of Live per year, and there’s always reason to take notice. Live 8 ($449 download) includes a new groove engine that includes extracting grooves from audio or MIDI and real-time groove quantize; retooled warping abilities, such as warping audio events by adjusting the events on the timeline, a new Complex Warp Mode and slicing audio files to MIDI tracks based on transients; live looping; track grouping; a revamped MIDI editor; crossfades in the Arrangement view; and five new effects: Vocoder, Multiband Dynamics, Overdrive, Limiter and Frequency Shifter.

Live 8 is scheduled for availability this spring, along with Ableton Suite 8 ($699 download), which includes Live 8, a massive sound collection and many virtual instruments, including the new Latin Percussion acoustic drum collection and the Collision mallet instrument. Ableton’s first soft synth, Operator, has also been updated with new filter types, more modulation options and additive wavetable synthesis.

Prices for boxed version will be higher, and upgrade prices will vary.

AKAI APC40 ABLETON CONTROLLER

When Ableton first announced this at their press conference, they should have handed out Depends, because people were peeing themselves over this thing. Perhaps *the* hit of the show for the Remix crowd, the APC40 represents a collaboration between Akai and Ableton to create a dedicated controller for Live 7 and higher. Intended for real-time mixing, remixing and production, the APC40’s 109 buttons, 16 endless encoders with LED rings, nine 45 mm faders and a replaceable crossfader give you complete control of Live’s Session view, effect devices and virtual instruments with little need for a mouse.

The controller’s multi-colored backlit buttons let you know what’s loaded, what’s playing and what’s being recorded. For the $399 retail price, the APC40 comes with a specially designed version of Live Lite, so whether you use that version, Live 7 or the new Live 8, the APC40 automatically works over a USB connection, with no drivers or mapping required.

ARTURIA MINIMOOG V 2.0

Arturia did a great job modeling the Minimoog in its first version of Minimoog V, and Arturia was clear to us that it didn’t want to change the sound of the instrument. So what was there to improve upon? A fresh batch of presets is nice, and recording automation within each preset for up to four parameters opens a ton of possibilities. But that’s just the beginning.

Arturia added a Vocal Filter, which works almost as if to make the Minimoog talk. The new Vocal Filter, as well as Pan, can be used as destinations for an expanded modulation matrix.

Best of all, a new Sound Map lays out the hundreds of preset sounds in a sortable two-dimensional space as a new and effective way for zeroing in on the sound(s) you want. While that’s helpful, the Sound Map’s morphing might blow your mind. By clicking multiple sounds within the map, you can morph between them.

CELEMONY MELODYNE EDITOR

Back at the 2008 Musik Messe in Frankfurt, Germany, Celemony undoubtedly stole the show with it’s DNA feature–Direct Note Access–for Melodyne. DNA lets you access and edit individual chord tones in audio recordings. Those extrapolated chord notes can be edited like other notes within Melodyne, by altering the pitch, position and duration of the note detected, make it louder or quieter, copy/cut/paste and so on.

The first product using DNA was supposed to be Melodyne Plug-in 2 last fall, but since then, Celemony had rebuilt the product around DNA functions to the extent that a new name was in order. Melodyne Editor ($349) is set to come out this spring and will work as a stand-alone app, as well as a plug-in.

EASTWEST/QUANTUM LEAP SILK

It’s easy to get lost in specs, concepts and jargon at NAMM, but fantastic sounds still rise above all the rest. For Quantum Leap Silk - Masters of the Silk Road ($595), producer/composer Nick Phoenix recorded renowned musicians playing dozens of authentic instruments from China, India and Persia to create a brilliantly sounding and ambitious 25 GB collection of ethnic instruments.

Recorded at major studios using vintage Neumann microphones, Neve consoles and Meitner converters, Silk also takes advantage of EastWest’s new Play 64-bit sample engine, which includes scripting, micro-tuning and a convolution reverb.

EDIROL P-10 VISUAL SAMPLER

Edirol has transferred sister company Roland’s moxy for audio samplers into the video realm with this compact box. The P-10 allows you to capture video clips from DVDs, video cameras and other sources and then trigger them in tempo with effects and with the audio optionally intact if you want to play full music videos for example.

You can also capture still images from video clips and play sets of images as slideshows. The P-10 uses SD memory cards up to 16 GB, which would give you 4 hours of video storage in the Motion JPEG format it uses. With 12 pads and 72 pad banks, you have potentially hundreds of video clips at your disposal. A live input lets you capture videos of your surrounding and immediately play them back to the crowd.

KORG MICROKORG XL

Falling into the gap between the original MicroKorg and the Korg R3 synth, the MicroKorg XL ($750) features the acclaimed analog modeling from Korg’s Radias synth engine, a built-in 16-band vocoder (gooseneck mic included) and a simplified editing system using three large dials and a backlit LCD menu. With its 37-note velocity sensitive mini-keyboard and optional battery power, the MicroKorg XL is compact and ready to fit into a cramped studio or live setup.

While small, this full-featured keyboard includes USB and MIDI controller capability, audio inputs for the vocoder, an editable arpeggiator, 17 effects from the Korg Kaoss series, and it excels in a wide variety of sounds from filthy basses to sharp lead synths and lush, evolving pads.

MOTU BPM

Although frequently unsung, MOTU’s virtual instruments carry famously deep functionality to go along with impeccable sound. It’s latest effort, BPM, a beat production tool for urban and electronic music, continues that tradition.

With the intent of letting you make beats almost as fast as you can hear them in your head, and to stop you from relying on someone else’s loops, BPM gives you 15 GB of 24-bit/96 kHz of percussive material, but you can also sample your own sounds or drag-and-drop sound from your desktop to BPM’s pads, which are compatible with any MIDI pad controller on the market.

Just a few of BPM’s seemingly infinite features include drum layering, patterning sequencing, loop slicing, groove quantizing and unlimited effects processing with its included effects. You can create your entire rhythm track in BPM as a stand-alone app, but it’s not meant to be a one-stop-shop only. With universal plug-in compatibility, it features multiple outputs and many export options for you to use your beats in a DAW session or transfer them elsewhere.

MOTU VOLTA

One of the few “from out of nowhere” surprises at NAMM, MOTU introduced Volta, a virtual instrument plug-in that allows users to play and automate modular synthesizers–and other hardware equipped with control voltage (CV) inputs–right from their workstation software.

To pull off that task, which no other software has done before, Volta receives conventional virtual instrument MIDI note, automation and controller data and then converts it to a control voltage signal, which it sends through an audio interface as DC voltage that can drive a standard CV input. It’s important to point out that the audio interface must have DC-coupled outputs;

Volta also has a Calibration button that can automatically tune analog synths by sending voltages and measuring the pitch response. It can even tune self-oscillating filters.

Scheduled to ship in the first quarter of this year as an Audio Units plug-in, Volta does not have a price attached yet. Its capabilities are vast, but the bottom line is that Volta gives you the same or comparable access to sequence, control and automate your modular and other analog synths, Moogerfoogers and other CV gear that you have over your current soft synths.

NATIVE INSTRUMENTS MASCHINE

We’ve all heard a lot about the combining of software functionality with hardware control. However, until now, the combination has usually come from a fairly traditional piece of hardware having a software component to it, or software being controlled by a piece of general-use hardware. Native Instruments wants to change the game with Maschine ($669), an instrument in the tradition of the tried and true “groovebox,” but made from the ground up to combine the tactile control of hardware with the modern immense capabilities of software. And unlike many other music products before it, Maschine’s hardware is made to work with its software 100 percent, and vice versa.

If you’re used to the traditional groovebox and drum machine workflow, you should have no problem diving into Maschine. You get 16 pressure-sensitive drum pads that illuminate to reflect sequenced patterns, eight rotary encoders and plenty of buttons to keep your hand off the computer’s keyboard and mouse. The package comes with several gigabytes of sampled material for you to make your music, and the hardware doubles as a MIDI controller for your DAW and other instruments.

OPEN LABS MIKO LXD

Open Labs has been going as crazy as its hip-hop endorsers over the last year. At NAMM, it unveiled updated hardware specs and a much-improved software OS for it’s all-encompassing, computer-in-a-keyboard workstations. Among a full line of introductions, the Miko LXD stood out for the Remix crowd.

The 37-key workstation comes with a full software bundle including 60+ virtual instruments, including FXpansion Guru and the Livid Instruments Cell VJ software, all running over Windows XP Home. And you can load your own PC-compatible DAW, DJ and other software into the Miko. In addition Open Labs, has developed Riff, its new virtual instrument host software that makes switching between instruments seemless, and lets you create real-time virtual controls that can be mapped to effects or other parameters.

Miko LXD includes the touch-sensitive computer display and three built-in control modules, two of which are new. The new Bump MP module gives you Akai MPC-style controls such as note repeat, as well as transport controls, hold, pad tune and more. As an original innovation, Open Labs has included a 17th pad called Last Pad. This pad basically plays whatever the sound is of the last pad you hit, letting you perform fast rolls more comfortable on two pads instead of one.

Also new, the Mix/Edit controller gives you controller over as many as 128 channels of audio from within one set of 8 encoders, 8 lighted buttons and 8 faders. Miko LXD begins as $4,599 and is available to order now.

SONIVOX PLAYA

In a coup for cash-strapped cats who want to get into music now, Sonivox Playa supplies the basic tools for urban music production in one stand-alone app or plug-in for $149. That price includes 400 Sonivox instruments (for reference, Sonivox created the instrument sounds for Ableton Live 7), including basses, brums, synths, ethnic sounds, guitars, strings, brass and more. There are also effects, EQ and 50 construction kit-style layouts for the 16 programmable and assignable virtual pads. With MIDI learn, Playa is compatible with any MIDI controller.

WALLANDER BRASS

A lot of companies were trying to show off either their modeled brass or their sample-based brass collections at NAMM, but none that we heard were as impressive as Wallander Instruments Brass 1 ($599). Wallander’s acoustic behavioral modeling does a remarkable job of reproducing the nuances of notoriously difficult to replicate brass instruments. Brass 1 includes models of French Horns, Trumpets Trombones and Tubas and claims to be CPU friendly enough to produce full orchestra-worthy arrangements on a laptop. With modeling, you also don’t have to make room for gigabytes of audio material.

Ah, toys, gadgets, gear. Every week it’s something new that gets us excited about making music and questioning our commitment to financial responsibility.

This last week split my wig a few times with some cool announcements, so here are the best of the best, in a list as random and unorganized as my desk.

Stanton DaScratch

This touch-sensitive USB MIDI DJ controller, aka SCS.3d, promises fast response and easy customization. It can control an entire computer DJing system from one compact device or easily add to your existing system.

DaScratch introduces Stanton’s StanTouch technology, which is supposed to incorporate finger movements familiar to DJs, such as scratching, scrubbing and circular touch-pad navigating. The main surface works in three modes–Slider, Circle and Button–in which the surface responds to touches in different ways. In every mode, DaScratch responds to multiple simultaneous touches. If you buy more than one of the $249 units (available now), they can snap together to create a larger control surface.

Dave Smith Instruments Mopho

OK, one question: Did it really take this long for someone to think of calling a MOnoPHOnic synthesizer the Mopho, or is Dave Smith just the first one with the cajones to do it? Well, I for one say bravo to curse word innuendo.

But moving on, the Mopho actually looks like an extremely badass synth for a $439 list price (available now). The one-note/two-oscillator analog synth features a synth engine based on the DSI Prophet ‘08–one of the greatest 21st-century analog synths–with the added bonus of two sub-octave generators–one per oscillator–for additional girth and crushing basses. It’s got an audio input for passing sounds through the legendary Curtis lowpass filter; it includes 5-pin MIDI ports; and at only 7.5-by-5 inches, it’s very portable.

IPJ “iPhone Jockey” Software

Dude, these apps from Japanese company New Forestar are only in beta, but to my knowledge are the only apps for the iPhone/iPodTouch that attempt to turn them into mini CDJ-style audio players. Two iPhones and a mixer? That’s what up.

The features of these apps include a jog dial with virtual scratching and tap tempo, a pitch fader, play/pause button, cue button, forward and backward buttons, a seek bar and a time display. In addition, they’ll use the iPhone’s accelerometer to issue sound effects when you shake the device. No word yet on when the programs will become available.

D16 Decimort

What’s your favorite “mort?” Voldemort, Mort from Family Guy or maybe it’s the Decimort, the new bit-crusher plug-in from D16 Group. Decimort aims to recreate the highly sought after coloration of vintage samplers such as the E-Mu SP-12 and SP-1200 and the Akai MPC 60mkII that was the result of encoding techniques, lower sample and bit rates and conversion circuits.

Decimort’s main sections include a decimator with controls for bit rate and sample rate and a filter with four filter types and controls for cutoff and resonance. It’s available now for preorder at 29 euros. After the first week of October, the price will be set at 35 euros.

Universal Audio Moog Multimode Filter

On the heels of it’s recently announced UAD-2 DSP platform, Universal Audio has announced the released of the Moog Multimode Filter plug-in for UAD-1. UAD-2 users who buy the UAD-1 version now ($199) will receive the UAD-2 version for free when it’s available.

Here’s list of key features:

• Classic Moog ladder-type 24 dB/Oct (4-pole) & 12 dB/Oct (2-pole) LPF/HPF/BPF
  
  

• Extreme distortion via 0/+20 dB Input Gain, replicating MiniMoog external input
  
  

• Stunningly “analog”: self-oscillation, smooth saturation, zero artifacts/quantization
  
  

• Enveloper Follower, Six LFO wave shapes, and DAW tempo synchronization
  
  

• Mono & Stereo processing with Spacing/Offset features from Voyager
  
  

• Includes Free low-DSP Multimode Filter SE version for high instance counts

Other than music, there’s little that we love here at Remix more than the Adult Swim animated shows of the Cartoon Network. One of their shows that has flown under the radar, Lucy, The Daughter of the Devil, combines our favorite things — irreverent humor and DJ culture — like no other.

The main character, DJ Jesus (pronounced “hey seuss”) is an up-and-coming San Francisco DJ who pulls off miraculous publicity stunts to further his career and dates Lucy, the supposed anti-Christ who’s continually pursued by a bunch of bumbling clergy. Oh yeah, and the devil is in there too. Fans of Adult Swim shows will recognize the ubiquitous voice of H. Jon Benjamin (Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Home Movies) vocalizing several lead characters.

In these few clips, you’ll see DJ Jesus playing with an MPC, human beat boxing and whipping up some miracles. Bounce over to AdultSwim.com for a ton more. (PS: this show is funny, but not made for kids.)

Richie Hawtin is always so far ahead of the DJing technology curve, it just may be futile to try to catch up. But that doesn’t mean you can’t be inspired by his innovation to do your own thing. In this video on ResidentAdvisor.net, Hawtin explains his current live setup using Native Instruments Traktor with four virtual decks and an Allen & Heath Xone mixer/MIDI controller (as well as an extra computer just for effects).

If you still think that it’s cheating for laptop DJs to use a software’s auto beat sync, allow Hawtin about 10 minutes of your time to justify himself for offloading that task to his computer helpers. As always, his endeavors are quite impressive.

Software-based DJing continues to explode in popularity, and many exhibitors at the 2008 NAMM Show eargerly flaunted their latest controllers aimed at digital DJs. Here’s a look at the heaviest hits for DJs at this year’s show, to wrap up our online NAMM coverage.

Stanton SC System

Representing a natural evolution from its Final Scratch, the Stanton SC System comprises the SCS.1m Mixer and SCS.1d Deck hardware controllers ($TBA). Doing away with the glitchy timecode that can act wonky at slow speeds, the SCS.1d‘s new error-free, high-resolution tracking system measures more than 1,000 counts per rotation with a laser, so the real vinyl surface never wears out. Its 10-inch motorized platter is the same as on Stanton‘s T.120 and STR8-150 turntables, with 0.2-second start and stop speeds. The SCS.1d‘s 100 mm pitch slider is also motorized, and when switching between virtual decks, it snaps to its new position. Four rotary encoders have “scribble strips” for feedback, 360-degree LED strips and six banks for a total of 24 assignments. The four-pad trigger section below the platter offers more creative possibilities, and settings for the entire deck can be saved to patches and switched at any time, making it more like several turntables in one.

The SCS.1m Mixer offers a traditional 4-channel DJ mixer layout for use with tracks streamed from the computer or tracks from the auxiliary audio input. With TRS balanced main outputs, RCA booth outputs and 1/4-inch headphone output, the SCS.1m is a FireWire interface, a DJ mixer and a software controller all in one. The channel strips (with EQ knobs), four volume sliders, crossfader, jog wheel, and four LED-ring rotary encoders all control your software of choice. Compatible apps include NI Traktor Studio, MixVibes, Ableton Live and Image Line Deck-a-dance, with more on the way.

Vestax VCI-300

This tabletop DJ controller looks much like the VCI-100 of last year, however, the VCI-300 has the added distinction of being integrated especially for the new Serato Itch software, which is supposed to be publicly demonstrated for the first time in March. ‘Itch figures to be a scaled-down version of Scratch, with many of the essential features left intact. The following screenshot of Itch may actually change by the time the program is released.

Denon DN-HS5500

This one’s an interesting concept, as it is two audio players in one deck. The DN-HS5500 ($999) has two separate audio outputs and can control two song with the full range of available controls coming from either external USB drives or iPods and optional internal hard drive or an internal CD player. It also acts as a MIDI controller for software and can also control two separate songs when being used in MIDI mode. It’s rotating platter packs full turntable torque, as well as Brake, Dump and Reverse platter effects. Not stopping there, the unit contains five DSP effects: flanger, filter, echo, Tail Echo and Echo Loop.

Numark NS7

Numark’s gargantuan NS7 was not yet working at NAMM–only displayed behind a plexi-glass case. It is also being made especially for Serato Itch integration; it will come with Itch bundled, but it also has many assignable MIDI controller and can be used with other MIDI software. It has two high-torque motorized 7-inch platter with real vinyl interfaces and a mixer all in one unit. The USB 2.0 interface moves MIDI info as well as 24-bit audio, and the audio connections include balanced XLR and unbalanced RCA.

Ideal for the person just getting started in digital DJing, the updated Hercules DJ Console RMX comprises an audio and MIDI interface in one and comes with VirtualDJ 5 DJC Edition software for PC or Mac.

M-Audio Torq

NAMM’s new DJ gear revolved mostly around hardware, but M-Audio also introduced Torq 1.5, a strong update packed with new features. Check out this list:

Improved Tempo/Pitch Alteration

•Tempo Anchors allow marking tracks with varying tempos–Torq‘s effects and samples follow the tempo changes in the song

•Tempo Master assigns a playing track to serve as the master tempo source for all tempo-related functions

Advanced MIDI Control

•Transmit/receive MIDI beat clock for synchronization with other hardware/software and easy switching between DJs

•MIDI soft takeover prevents parameter jumps when using external controllers

New User Interface Features

•Hide Mixer option conserves screen space

•Preview songs in headphones before loading to deck

•New database categories for bit rate, file type, year and label

•Select multiple files to add to playlists

•Musical Style Preferences improve results when analyzing tracks

•Drag and drop songs into decks while in browser max view

•Warning message if loading a new song onto a Deck that is playing

•Warning message when attempting to exit Torq

•Global Tempo metronome can be monitored in headphones

•Auto Gain feature matches the gain levels between decks

Enhanced Effects Processing

•Internal effects can be grouped into effects chains

•VST effect tempo synchronizes with tempo of playing deck

•Effects can be used in a post-fader configuration

Rock-Solid Integration with Traditional DJ Hardware

•Skip Protection keeps the music playing even if the Control Vinyl or CD skips

•True Key Lock keeps the pitch constant when adjusting external turntable speed

New Looping Functionality

•Loop Points can be set after a section plays

•New QuickLoop option for CDJ-style loop division

•Quantize function for start/stop accuracy

Allen & Heath Xone:42

While Allen & Heath’ Xone:3D mixer pioneered the realm of DJ mixers controlling software, its new Xone:42 loses the MIDI control but keeps a USB audio interface. It also showcases the acclaimed Xone-series VCF filter, which can be applied independently to any of he Xone:42’s four channgels.

For more from NAMM not seen on Remix’s TalkBox blog, including a videos and podcasts, check out the combined Remix, Mix and Electronic Musician NAMM portal site.

In case you missed TLC‘s reality show, Street Customs, on Nov. 15, Snoop Dogg had his old Sprinter van converted into a mobile recording studio. It was a first for the car-remodeling company, West Coast Customs, featured on the show.

“We‘ve done a lot of projects involving extreme high-end car audio, and a number of mobile stage trucks with performance and DJ rigs, but professional recording gear has a whole different set of requirements,” West Coast Customs‘ Chad Utt says.

The van went from a beat-up shuttle vehicle with six rows of seats to a kick-ass mobile studio. First things first, West Coast Customs called Mackie, who outfitted the van with a Sony Vaio SZ491 2.16 GHz dual-core laptop running Mackie Tracktion 3 Ultimate Bundle software; Mackie Control Universal Pro, Extender Pro and C4 Pro control surfaces; Onyx 1200F FireWire interface; and 1521Z 15-inch active loudspeakers.

The van also does double duty as a video lounge. To that end, there‘s a Sony 46-inch Bravia flat panel display, Blueray DVD player, PlayStation 3 console, HR624mk2 studio monitors and an HRS120 12-inch studio subwoofer. And people sitting at stop lights next to Snoop won‘t be complaining from the racket, either: West Coast treated the entire van with Dynamat acoustical sound dampening material.

“Snoop is totally stoked,” Utt says. “He was looking around the van and saying ‘man, I gotta shut down my other studios and go on the road.‘ Everyone who sees it is just amazed. It‘s not some all-cosmetics project, just for TV. It‘s fully functional and it sounds awesome. This is the real deal.” Check it out!

This was produced by Australain DJs and podcasters GearWhores–Andre Cato and Charlie Maybe.

www.myspace.com/gearwhores

GCI Technologies– Gemini, Cortex & iKEY Audio –has just announced that DJ Jacquie Jack & DJ Journey will perform in the GCI room–Room 137–Remix Hotel Los Angeles 2007.

A favorite in the Los Angeles area, Jacqueline Finnan, aka DJ Jacquie Jack, aka “Dirty Vinyl Pusher,” will be spinning on Gemini CDT-05 combo vinyl/CD turntables.

Also, DJ Journey will showcase his ability to blend diverse beats and mix musical genres from across the board on his “club tested and studio proven” Gemini TT-04 turntables.

Attendees will also have a chance to win free gear from Gemini, Cortex and iKEY Audio as part of a GCI Giveaway Raffle.

Although Summer NAMM is not known for being a big draw for DJ gear announcements, I did come across a few interesting new products, mostly from American Audio. Numark also showed their impressive new line of products, which were announced earlier but are now starting to become available.

American Audio

American Audio’s new flagship DJ mixer is the MX-1400 DSP, a 4-channel mixer with the following built-in digital effects: Echo, Auto Pan, Flanger, Manual Filter, Auto Filter, Reverb, Trans & Pitch Shifter. Any effect can be assigned to any of the inputs, which include: 3 phono, 4 lines, 4 aux and 3 mic inputs. In addition, there are balanced XLR outputs and S/PDIF digital outputs.

At a list price of $599, the 15 lb. mixer also includes a Master & Cue BPM analyzer, crossfader assign on each channel, adjustable rossfader curve, Q-Start and a recessed back panel for better access.

The MX-1400 mixer is basically the same as the MX-1400 DSP, but without the built-in digital effects. It has a list price of $419.

American Audio’s other notable recent product was the CK-1000 MP3, an all-inclusive tabletop unit that includes two CD/MP3 players with digital scratching and a mixer for $699 retail.

Numark

Numark revealed that its D2 Director rackmount dual digital music file player is now shipping. and theat the iDJ2 and hightly anticipated Total Control will be shipping withing a month.

In another piece of news, Numark is now distributing the MixMeister DJ software programs MixMeister Fusion (pictured) and MixMeister Studio. Both programs seems to bridge the difference between traditional deck-oriented DJ software and DAW programs. The MixMeister apps are made for DJs and DJing live, but using a DAW-style timeline interface to expand a person’s potential to create remixes and more creative performances. Fusion is the more full-featured of the two programs.