Is the future of digital DJing iPods or vinyl?
Yes, says Numark. Aside from apparently working on a concept for a DJ mixer that would integrate iPods, allowing you to scratch right from your portable player (as reported earlier today), Numark continues to beef up its options for hard-core vinyl DJs. Witness the analog-digital hybrid Numark 5000FX (also via scratchworx): this monster can connect three turntables, 6-9 line inputs from devices like laptops, 2 microphones, and output to headphones and multiple line outs. (Beck might have to update the lyrics of the song.) With the $895 5000FX, you can mix, flip, reverse, chop, sample, scratch, beat-match, [rub it down, onoes! -ed.] and add rhythmic echo and other effects. That’s not to say that iPod DJing has to be any less musical—real DJ features for the iPod could challenge DJs to get their chops up.
http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/musical-instruments/index.php#numarks-ipod-dj-mixer-039853
createdigitalmusic‘s Peter Kirn regularly reports on digital music trends for Gizmodo.
