It’s fair to say that my fingers aren’t firmly on the pulse of the minutiae of what’s happening in DJ land anymore. I know what has been launched but I no longer know ahead of time. And it seems that my name has been almost entirely expunged from press lists, something I am very happy about.
I did however read about the new Rane System One. I love this unit — it’s the distillation of all the tried and tested best bits of everything since the launch of the Numark NS7, a unit I absolutely adored.
But something is different. And Mojaxx posted something that gave me pause for thought. And I suspect that this new lump of shiny foreshadows something much bigger than might be first apparent.
Here’s the post:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DUfhjhqgD4G
To bulletpoint:
- There’s no computer needed
- Engine standalone works great
- Pre-rendering stems is a pain
- DMX lighting is plug and play with Engine DJ standalone
Wait… there’s no computer needed for performance? Standalones are obviously not new — indeed stablemate Denon DJ is more or less Engine DJ first. But Rane?
I was there in 2004 for the very first version of Rane and Serato’s game changing Scratch Live. Together they blazed a trail for more than two decades. But the Rane System One has severed the need for Serato, and Engine DJ seemingly works well enough to not go back.
And that’s something that won’t have gone unnoticed at Serato HQ.
It shouldn’t. It’s huge.
And when the world’s most credible and listened-to media voice (not me, Mojaxx silly) says standalone is ready at the expense of a laptop, then that’s a cultural shift waiting to happen.
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