DJ TechTools

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DJ TechToolsLive & DJBehringer Teases a $300-400 Open DJ Standalone Behringer posted a four-channel standalone prototype it says will sell for $300 to $400 as open hardware. The rear panel reads Klark Teknik.

10.28

DJ TechToolsLive & DJTriMixxx Is a DIY CDJ Built on a Raspberry Pi A DJ built his own deck from a Raspberry Pi and a salvaged CDJ jog wheel, and it joined the club’s Pro DJ Link network like any other player.

10.16

DJ TechToolsLive & DJAlphaTheta HDJ-F9: SonicLink Wireless DJ Headphones, $349 AlphaTheta’s second SonicLink headphone goes on-ear and adds tap-to-pair with the DJM-V5. Everyone else needs a separate $159 transmitter.

10.16

DJ TechToolsLive & DJThe 2026 Chroma Drive: Our New DJ USB Drive (with no cap to lose) Our new 2026 Chroma Drive for DJs covers both the USB-C and USB-A ends, and comes in five colors.

07.13

DJ TechToolsLive & DJAlphaTheta XDJ-AN: A $1,200 Standalone 2-Channel Replacing the XDJ-RR, Only Takes USB-C Drives A decade after the XDJ-RR, AlphaTheta's $1,200 XDJ-AN weighs the same and costs about the same, just with streaming and cloud sync built in.

07.09

DJ TechToolsLive & DJThe CDJ-1500X is AlphaTheta’s first budget-minded media player since the XDJ-1000MK2 AlphaTheta fills the gap the XDJ-1000MK2 left in 2016 with a budget-minded CDJ built on 2026 hardware, including a new crowd-request feature called CoBeat.

07.02

DJ TechToolsLive & DJFarewell, Juno Download After about 20 years, Juno Download has shut down with no warning. Here's what the DJ-first store meant, why it folded while vinyl booms, and where to buy DJ music now.

06.03

DJ TechToolsLive & DJMidi Fighter Utility 2.91 Is Out; Our Biggest Update in Years The Midi Fighter Utility 2.91 is out now, with new firmware for every Midi Fighter in the lineup. Here's what's new and how to update.

06.01

Three pins, and nearly every signal in this business passes through them.

The magazine is named after the cable: the microphone in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX run that fires the lights. Studio, stage and rig share the same cable. Most magazines pick one of the three. This one covers all of it, because the people we read do too — the engineer mixing a record on Tuesday is on front of house by Saturday.

Around a hundred and sixty sources, in English, Japanese, Spanish, German, French, Chinese and Italian: makers and their release notes, reviewers who put a hand on the thing, studios and touring crews, the producers and collectives surfacing this month and the scenes they came out of. Synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lighting. What the trade is talking about is counted and plotted. The editor's letter has just started; it will find its rhythm.

For each story: a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the maker or the photographer. A German review appears in German and a Japanese one in Japanese, as the writer published it; the link goes to the original.

Nothing is sold on this site. When a link leads to a shop, it is the maker's shop, not ours.