We've long been fans of Traktor. More than any PC DJing software, it offers a simple route into DJing that doesn't involve any expensive hardware. It makes sense to find out if you can match a beat ...

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Native Instruments has released TRAKTOR DJ 2, a free DJ app for desktops and the iPad. The app is designed to break the barriers to DJing – with greater accessibility, an easy-to-use interface, ...

Native Instruments today announced the TRAKTOR Tutorial DVD, a new multimedia workshop that enables DJs to get the most out of Native Instruments’ TRAKTOR 3 DJ software. With a comprehensive video ...

DJing (or is that deejaying?) on the iPad is pretty rad, but what do you do about cueing up the next track? If you’ve got $20 to spend, you can buy the Traktor DJ cable, a splitter that lets you cue a ...

Here's one for you fact fans: in the 60s a man called Francis Grasso invented a DJing technique called 'beatmixing'. People were leaving the dancefloor in the gaps between songs, so Grasso kept people ...

There has been no shortage of DJ applications for the iPad. From Algoriddim’s djay to offerings like iDJ from Numark, companies have gotten many things right. But we’ve yet to see true, fully-featured ...

Digital DJing has always been a contentious topic and, while it's struggled to gain legitimacy in the eyes of more traditional DJs, for better or worse, technology is moving on. However you choose to ...

Look, last year's Traktor Kontrol S4 was pretty damn awesome but, at $1,000 and about the size of your average Williamsburg DJ, it wasn't exactly for everyone. That's where the S2 comes in. Instead of ...

If you go out and hunt for a DJ app that lets you mix together two different tracks, you’re going to come across a lot of really, really, bad design. Even the best stuff is a hell of fake spinning ...