Yamaha's DJ Box & Keyboard

The DJXII keyboard, dubbed “The Keys” by Yamaha, is a 61-key combination keyboard and groove machine in one. It has a built-in sampler and performance recorder that lets you sample up to 6-½ seconds and then assign it to six different buttons for instant recall. It even lets you sample your own voice through an optional microphone or from some kind of audio source. The recorder can take anything created from the grooves and content of the keyboard and give you a choice to store it to one of six locations. Bass ports come with the built-in speaker system. Like The Box, The Keys is also designed for portability.
Yamaha Corp.
Pro Audio & Combo Division
P.O. BOX 6600
Buena Park, CA 90622-6600
(714) 522-9011
www.yamaha.com

Free Visiosonic

OK, Internet junkies, Visiosonic has just come out with its “PCDJ Broadcaster,” the latest version of the PCDJ dual-channel digital multimedia player/mixer. Designed to transform the average computer user into a desktop DJ, this free program lets you play and crossfade between two digital song files, add live voice-overs and then shoot your mix, in real time, right over to any Internet broadcast source. Your mix is then streamed to Net radio listeners everywhere. And it doesn’t stop there. Output from your CD drive and MIDI player, along with sound from any audio device that’s connected to the Line In jack on your sound card, can also be added to your mix. With the PCDJ Broadcaster, you can listen to any Shoutcast or Icecast MP3 radio stream as well as MP3 files as they’re being downloaded. As an added bonus, the Broadcaster fully supports M3U and PLS playlists so you can listen to all of your favorite Top 40 tunes on sites like MP3.com. The PCDJ Broadcaster has all of the features of Visiosonic’s PCDJ PHAT meaning you can play and mix MP3s, watch video files, play and rip CDs, find and organize songs on your hard disks, create playlists and listen to Net radio. Just click on PCDJ’s Broadcaster’s built-in link to one of the broadcast sites, plug in a microphone into your soundcard and follow the directions. Result: Instant radio show. Download the PCDJ Broadcaster from Visiosonic at www.pcdj.com.
Visiosonic, Ltd.
21939 US 19 North
Clearwater, FL 33765
1-877-778-4746
(727) 799-3828

BitHeadz Phrazer
Phrazer, from BitHeadz, is a loop-based composition and arranging program, designed for MacIntosh users to bridge the gap between high-end multitrack audio sequencers and consumer level looping tools. The program lets you make real time changes to the tempo and key of any audio file imported into a Phrazer session. From here, volume and panning automation can be assigned per track along with DSP effects so you can create your masterpiece. Different tracks can be gated on and off from the computer QWERTY keyboard or form a MIDI keyboard with synchronization. A sample editor lets you fine-tune audio files and support is included for external MIDI sync and is included for use with MIDI setups. Once you’ve perfected your mix, Phrazer can make it into a disk file so it can be used with other digital audio applications. Prazer is optimized for Apple’s G4 processor and will support ASIO, Direct I/O, DirectConnect, MAS 2.0 ReWire and Sound Manager.
BitHeadz, Inc.
4400 Capitola Road, Suite 202
Capitola, CA 95010
(831) 465-9898
www.bitheadz.com

Superscope's Portable CD Players
New from Super-scope is its PAC750 and PAC770, rack-mount sound systems that combine a CD player, cassette recorder and mixer into one handy unit. With multiple mic/line inputs, and an auxiliary input, the two systems have a professional grade, quick auto reverse cassette deck and a CD-RW compatible CD player with a single-track playback. It also has separate and independent cassette and CD control buttons, along with its own level control so you can get the balance right. The mic/line input section has four balanced XLR and ¼-inch input jacks, each which have available 48V phantom power, sensitivity adjustment and separate level, EQ and pan controls. The Mic/line inputs also trigger automatic ducking of the source music from the CD, cassette or auxiliary input. The PAC models come with a stereo aux input, a stereo effects input/output, stereo outputs for the cassette deck and CD player and a line level mixer output. The PAC750 has a balanced XLR and unbalanced RCA mixer outputs designed to give you greater flexibility in matching specific amplifier power to applications. The PAC770 has a 110 watt per channel (4 ohm) stereo amplified output that’s also switchable to a 210 watt (8 0hm) mono output. You’re given a choice of either ¼-inch or binding post speaker terminals. Also, both systems include independent tempo and key controls for the CD output and pitch control for the cassette output. The tempo range is +/- 50-percent without a key change. The key change range is +\- 1 octave, without changing tempo. As for the cassette deck, its pitch control range is +\- 12-percent, which simultaneously varies the tempo and key. Also available is a voice reduction feature that lets you take out the lead vocals on any CD, cassette or auxiliary source.
Superscope Technologies
2640 White Oak Circle
Aurora, IL 6050
(630) 820-4800
www.superscopetechnologies.com

Vestax PMC-25
The PMC-25 from Vestax is a 1.9-inch 3U mixer designed with the house or mobile DJ in mind. It has 3-band frequency isolators on each channel that lets you boost, cut and eliminate individual frequency ranges. The fader-type cut switch is designed allows frequency cut-off without any click noise. The mixer is XLR balanced and has ¼-inch phone unbalanced output jacks and a -10dB/0dB output switch lets you level match. You can replace its 45-mm input faders and crossfader yourself. The input fader can be replaced with an optional rotary volume for house applications. The PMC-25’s connector panel can be selected from either the bottom or top sides, a feature that lets you use the mixer on a tabletop or mounted in a rack space without needing extra space for plugs and connectors.
Vestax America
2750 N. 29th Ave.
Suite 126
Hollywood, FL 33020
(954) 926-6622
www.vestaxdj.com

Loud's RealVerb & Smartcode Pro
Kind of Loud’s RealVerb is stereo reverberation plug-ins for Pro Tools TDM and Digidesign’s 001 format, RTAS. RealVerb is a reverb that’s designed to morph room shape, size and texture to give you creative control over your sound. The morphing and blending tools function in real-time without any pops, clicks or distortion and let you pan within the stereo spectrum. Also from the company comes two 5.1 encoder software packages for Digidesign’s ProTools Digital Audio Workstation. The SmartCode Pro is an AudioSuite program that lets you, the Pro Tool user, preview in real time, 5.1 mixes created by Pro Tools software and SmartPan Pro plug-in; then encode and decode the mix to create a 6-channel surround master. The program is available in both Dolby Digital and DTS versions. This panning plug-in brings discrete 5.1 surround panning to the Pro Tools platform. It’s designed to complete the surround software, letting you record, edit and encode your mixes without relying on dedicated hardware.
Kind of Loud Technologies
2125 Delaware Ave. Suite A
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
(831) 466-3737
www.kindofloud.com

Crate's Crossover
Crate’s two way stereo/three-way mono active electronic crossover has just been upgraded to feature an internal power supply along with high and low mute switches, Hi-Phaze reversal switch and a variable crossover from 80Hz-9.2kHz. The LS4-OX has a CD horn equalization switch and is based on a 24 dB per octave Linkwitz-Riley state variable filters. The LS4-XO still includes all of its old features, too, including peak LED indicators, 40Hz low cut and 15kHz high cut switches, 2x low frequency output level control, balanced XLR and ¼-inch inputs and outputs. And, of course, the stereo/mono selector switch.
Crate Pro Audio
St. Louis Music
1400 Ferguson Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63133
(314) 727-4512
www.stlouismusic.com

Music and More's Analog Line
Music and More’s new line features analog processors and sound generators designed for those of you with more lint than cash lining your pockets. The VF 11 is an 11-band True Analog Vocoder that sits in a 19-inch 1U rack and features classic Vocoder voice processing. Added features like frequency selective distortion, vibrato and phaser effects give you the most bang for your buck. The MB 33II is a TB 303 in a 1U rack that gives you major MIDI control options, a sub-oscillator and extra VCF input that can process any signal bass box and 100-percent analog circuitry. Headphone issues? The HP 48 has you covered, supplying four different headphone mixes to eight headphones also in a 1U package. You can transform a mono signal through the RS3, a 1U pure analog resonator/filter/flanger/phaser and the Warp 9 1U rackmount analog FX processor gives you distortion, envelope control, multimode filtering and comprehensive MIDI control. The SQ 16, a MIDI Step sequencer Step programming that has 16 LEDS that activates the “live” setting of STEPS and ACCENTS, for 16 Steps for each of the 64 patterns it lets you store. The SQ 16 also lets you keep track of all the important things like sync, midi-cock, start, stop and continue. Other products in the line include the ADX1 analog drum expander that has individual outputs per instrument classic analog tones and a realistic high-hat sound; the 16-channel DI 16 channel mount direct box; the 8-channel SLM 82 rack mount line mixer and the 6-channel, MLM 62 rack mount mixer with 2 MIC preamps.
MAM America
407 Stony Point Road
Santa Rosa, CA 95401
(707) 578-3642

New from Gemini
Gemini has released a few new products to keep you occupied. First is First Mix, a beginning DJ kit that includes two Gemini XL-20 belt drive turntables plus a PMX-20 two channel preamp/mixer and EM-50 stereo headphones. Gemini’s new professional package is made up of two CDJ-10 CD players, a PS-700 Pro 19-inch stereo preamp/mixer, a GM-26 mic, EM-50 headphones and your very own DJC-1070 road case. And what party would be complete without a karaoke machine. Gemini’s KM-130 karaoke mixer has three ¼-inch inputs with individual gain controls and a fully adjustable echo circuit. These circuits have echo assign switches for each mic input and another one for music. Mic EQ with sweepable midrange and a “voice cancel” (always a handy feature) for karaoke CDs. The SP-1 is a 19-inch 1U rackmount surround processor. It’s a software-based, 2 input, 5-output pre- amp/surround processor . Its four operation modes include two-channel stereo, two-channel four speaker stereo, two-channel four speaker stereo diagonal and four speaker surround with a subwoofer. It also has a subwoofer output with a built-in bass enhancer and an onboard white-noise generator designed for easy calibration in ‘circle surround’ mode.
Gemini Sound Products Corp.
8 Germak Drive
Carteret, NJ 07008
(732) 969-9000
www.geminidj.com

ARTful EQs
ART has come out with a single-channel 31-band EQ, Model 352, and a dual channel 15-band EQ, Model 342. Model 352 has 70-mm center detent sliders with a selectable boost or cut range of 6dB or 12dB, constant Q circuitry and balanced XLR.

Other features include ¼-inch and unbalanced RCA input and output connections, high and low pass filters, analog level metering, variable input controls. Signal clip level indicators, ground lift switch, internal power supply and selectable line voltage. It sits in an all-steel chassis that’s about 2U rack spaces and is ideally installed into your standard 19-inch equipment racks. The Model 342 is a dual-channel, 15-band EQ that has everything the 352 has. It’s also 2U tall and will fit nicely into any standard 19- inch rack.
ART
215 Tremont Street
Rochester, NY 14608
(716) 436-2720
www.artroch.com

American DJ's Fiesta
American DJ’s Fiesta party light has nine multi-colored, themed gobos. The nine celebration themes, each with their own image, include “Happy Birthday,” “Happy New Year” and “Merry Christmas.” Words surround the images, but the party light also has a standard spot gobo, just in case there’s nothing really special going on. The projector beams multi-colored images across the floor or walls, while a gobo selector lets you manually change images or patterns, if necessary, for those times when a couple decides during a Christmas party to announce their engagement. One flip of the switch and Santa molds into a wedding ring. The Fiesta has a three-position mode switch so it can operate in sound-active, continuous rotation or static mode, designed to give you control over the event’s tempo.
American DJ
4295 Charter St.
Los Angeles, CA 90058
(800) 322-7336
www.americandj.com

Limited Edition Numark
Numark’s CDN22S Limited Edition CD player has all of the features of its regular CDN22S, like fader/relay start, digital outputs and three search speeds. Its pitch/jog wheel has a +\-12-percent pitch adjustment and the back lit display has time bars that let you know elapsed time or the remaining time you have on your tracks. The CDN22S has track sequence programming and is CDR compatible. But what really makes the Limited Edition special is its gold face plate and rubber play and cue buttons.
Numark Industries, LLC
11 Helmsman Avenue
North Kingstown, RI 02852
(401) 295-9000
www.numark.com