PLASA 2008

For the first year in many I did not make it down to Earls court for PLASA 2008!

Some of the quality DJ team stopped in past and have sent me back reports from the show.

With the advent of internet marketing, blogs and HD video the way new products are launched into the market has really changed and DJ shows like must take note!

BPM had a great start last year and looks like a different show to me it doesn't brand itself as a trade or a consumer show but does manage to cater for many different people in one weekend.

Anyway back to the new stuff we did find at plasa!

Numark is the main player showing off it's new wares with control being the buzz word of the year.

A new controller to compete with the Vestax VCI100 and some new turntable style controllers which look very familiar to some other products that we have seen on the sly recently!!



The Numark OMNI CONTROL.



The NS7 Vinyl controller / mixer et all!

NS7 Controller for Serato Itch at NAMM 2008

VCM600 on the way

The VCM-600 is a DJ MIDI controller designed with Vestax mixer technology. 160 parameters of the DJ software can be assigned to the advanced control section, and has excellent compatibility with Ableton LIVE 6 and 7.

DUE TO LAND IN THE UK END OCT/NOV 2008

RRP £ 515.18 EX VAT.

Qualitydj

My BCD3000 doesn't work !! But it does I promise!

We have lots of people have this problem with the BCD 3000. This post was prompted by lots of customers in Edinburgh and some following my popular youtube video: on show at the bottom of this post


The issue is that the BCD will run with standard drivers but to get fun functionality out of it you need the proper ASIO drivers and control panel that comes on the install disc.
When you plug in your BCD3000 you should have a small black box in your status icon next to your clock in windows XP.

When you double click on this it gives you a simple setup dialog for the sound card.


Select Advanced mode and output channels as shown above.

In trackor you then need to start file/preferences
then in audio setup-Soundcard check you have "BCD3000 ASIO" selected.


On the next Tab - Output Routing make sure you have external selected:


In output routing then select and assign the four outputs of the BCD to Monitor and master respectively.

If you don't see the small black box then download and run the exe below!
software here:
BCD3000setup_1-1-2-0.exe


Neil
Qualitydj

See the original video here!

BCD3000 Windows XP Driver setup

BlastCasts – Learn to Scratch with DJ Max Cooper

Beginners Tips on the blog is something that's we don't yet have enough of so I will try to collate and add some new links to beginners content.

Here is a great little tutorial for beginners which goes over the basic of scratching.




Neil
www.qualitydj.co.uk

DNHD2500 Software updates!

Denon
DJ Owner:

We are pleased to announce new software for your DN-HD2500
Media Player & Controller, that will enhance the performance of your
machine.

Latest Plug In’s: (v1400 - as of July,15 2008)
-Added:
Instant Playback from Cue stutter, A1, A2 STR modes when the PLAY button is
pushed simultaneously
-Added: .WAV Album sorting by Track ID3 tag, so Album
list appears in the same track order as your CD's
-Improved other minor bugs
listed with the firmware download

**Full details can be found in the
download

The DN-HD2500 is currently supported by these DJ applications
when used as a MIDI controller:

You can find more
information about this release and how to obtain the new software via the denon
website: http://denondj.com/plugin.asp?prod=DN-HD2500&x=25&y=5

The product can be found here on qualitydj

SL-DZ1200

Behringer DDM4000 Midi Mixer review on SL-DZ1200.

This Mixer is now in stock at Quality DJ

Xone:4D Launches

Xone:4D

Following our preview information about the new Xone:4D, we are also pleased to announce its official release. The mixer, which has the new 20 channel USB 2.0 soundcard has many new features to enhance the digital DJ's experience, such as many more MIDI control messages available, new BPM section and the UV sensitive legend for outstanding visibility and ease of use.

More details are now on the Xone website, www.xone.co.uk.

This will be launched to the public at the Sound Recording Technology show (part of LIMS) this week, so if you are attending the show, please visit us on stand F58.

This product is so new that we don't have it on the quality DJ Website yet!!

But click here in the next few days and it will be added to our listing!