Okay, now I’m upset.
As if I didn’t have enough other [audio] stuff I wanted to buy, I had to find out about this. Welcome to the new generation of the DJ performance. After speaking to some of my audiohead friends we came to the conclusion that the next Good Thing would involve a great hybrid mixer that allows you to connect whatever existing gear you had (turntables, cd decks, etc.) with your favorite DJ software (Traktor in my case), with your MIDI controllers abound for a crossfader, EQ knobs, and maybe jog wheels.
Well, take that and add a contained computer audio system, fully routable internal and external send/returns, optical in/out, internal and external MIDI in/out, and that’s about what you have pictured. This broke my mold for sure.
Basically, one could get a riggable mixer rack and mount this in it with a tight keyboard & touchscreen LCD behind it, connected to a rackmount case mounted in a lower bay of the rack with all the disk/CPU you could want. You might want to use hotswappable drives in a RAID array if you travel with it often so you don’t crash and burn when a disk fails. This PC could be loaded with Ableton Live, Traktor, and all the VST/DX/et al effects you could dream of. Given the number of tunes you could load onto a drive, combined with all of your personal edits and bootlegs, and all of your new compositions, you have one piece of work loaded into this box.
I want one. I might design something to the above specifications and try to market them. Done correctly I don’t see how anyone who depends on DJing to live would want anything but this.
