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Numark Total Control - The Ultimate DJ Software Controller

Thursday July 26, 2007
Djing at its root is musical performance. A turntablist works with a piece of vinyl the same way a drummer uses a drumstick or a singer uses their voice. The ability to make the instrument express music for a crowd is what separates a novice from a virtuoso (or a newbie from a master). The control that a turntablist exerts on a piece of vinyl is both intimate and absolute - the grooves of the record, the way the needle plays the sound, and the speed of turntable - all of these are manipulated by the DJ to entertain a crowd. The advent of CD DJing changed the way a DJ controlled the music, using jog wheels and buttons to emulate this control. Moving forward to laptop DJing, the Total Control arrives on the scene to set a new standard for music controllers.

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