It is not all fun and games here at Ninfomania, sometime we do have to do some work and last Thursday was no exception. We were invited to a “think tank” at Pioneer on the future of their DJ tools.
It was, in a nutshell, very interesting ... but, in a nutshell, something we can’t really tell you too much about.Even though they didn’t get us to sign NDA’s, we wouldn’t want to blow our cover with the full blue prints of their new product range. What we can share with you is that they are thinking *very* much along the MP3 lines. An interesting development considering their CDJ-500 is the worlds best selling CD player for DJs.
Their two Japanese R&D “rouges” took great delight in showing off some concept rich software based mixing tools that worked in the air conditioned calm of Pioneers conference room, but wouldn’t in a hot, sweaty, boom box of a night club.
The combined panel of some “big name” DJs and cool kids, however, got very interested in something called the PDJ-500S, which in essence is exactly the same as the CDJ-500 [rugged, well thought out, reliable], but instead of playing CD’s, you hook it up to your computer and transfer your “set” of MP3’s to its hard drive.
Just think, no more lugging of record bags across the country ... all you need is a few meg of MP3’s and backup Jaz of all those “club classics”. One nice idea that emerged was to put on a serial interface for your mobile phone, so you could download the latest remix “hot” from the studio seamlessly into the mix.“Everybody wants to be a DJ ...”
