iPod MPC DJ Loop sampler
Whilst the Pacemaker is a great all-in-one DJ tool that fulfills the needs of an iPod DJ with amazing ease, and whilst the iPod is a fantastic MP3 music player and when combined with the right iPod DJ equiment can be a fantastic tool for DJing on, there is one element of iPod DJing that hasn’t really been explored and for the big companies like Numark or Technics this is the perfect area to expand.
If you consider the needs of the modern day DJ, such as the need for beat matching and pitch control that the linkes of the Numark IDJ2 Now cover, there still isn’t a purpose built iPod DJ platfor that allows for loop mixing, that emulates the Akai MPC series, currently there are no iPod loop samplers, as such this really limits the flexibilty that iPod DJs have and means that when you DJK with an iPod you are limited to a few effects, maybe 6 short loops and your standard crossfader mixing, whilst this is sufficent, it doesn’t help push that concept of iPod DJing, as a more creative and experimental part of the DJ expereince where its more about set programming than it is about technical expertise.
It would be great for a MPC that uses an iPod as the audio source to be created to take adantage of the massive libary of music an iPod contants and to be able to extract loops that are flexible and easy to use/alter live in set.