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DJ abilities have come a long way since I was bopping away down at the local youth club. Dancing round the handbags to Duran Duran being played on a 12″ vinyl was great at the time – so long as no one barged into the equipment or the record didn’t get scratched!

Nowadays abercrombie outlet , much of the music is played electronically. It’s taken a little while for digital music to take off but now it has there’s just no stopping it. There have been complaints that this sort of thing takes something away from proper musical instruments being played, but musicians still enjoy what they do.

The digitalisation of it simply means that imperfections can be tweaked and the music shared much more easily than before. DJ’s no longer have to carry around van loads of heavy vinyl records which means they can hold a much wider repertoire of music, covering every genre. With music downloads, this has also done away with the need to wait for a vinyl record to be released.

However, what has happened now is that we have a whole new world of music for musicians and DJ’s to get their heads round. With this generations love of technology, it was only a matter of time before something was developed that would control the digital music to a degree that it limits the chances of mistakes and opens doors otherwise closed.

Various musical equipment producers, such as Pioneer or Akai, have made many attempts and produced some fascinating equipment through their professional designers and engineers. Take, for example, the Akai APC 40. This is one little device that has revolutionised the world of digital music.

Basically, it is a control surface for mixing, remixing and producing electronic sounds from complete songs to sound effects, backing tracks, beats or virtual instruments. It can be programmed to make life easier or map the sounds you are currently using for future use.

The Akai APC40 will map all controls and functions and is the dedicated controller for the Ableton live. With 109 buttons, 9 faders and 16 encoders, there isn’t much that any DJ couldn’t do with this piece of kit.

Akai and Pioneer have long been the favoured names in musical production and we see many companies trying to take them on.  Behringer are also impressive contenders but whichever company you use, you can be sure they all have the one thing in common – to bring digital music into the centre of the arena and accessible to all.

Electronic engineering even sits as a class for University attendees so that future generations will be able to enjoy the delights of electronic music to the max. It is these experts that know the ins and outs of digital engineering. Music and computers have become one – interacting with each other to the point where it’s difficult to tell them apart and they now rely on each other quite heavily.
This is no bad thing – just a sign of our times.