How to record vinyl and other analog audio with Rekordbox
Background to Rekordbox
It wasn’t so long ago that DJ’s around the world played exclusively from vinyl, with compact discs eventually joining the line up as DJ friendly CD players became both more versatile and reliable.
More recently, as computer hardware became both cheaper and more powerful, software companies began to develop increasingly clever applications that could manipulate and mix tracks in the DJ booth in real time.
Not without controversy, software with features such as BPM matching, key locking and press-button looping granted newcomers a much faster, lower barrier to entry to the world of DJing.
Rekordbox, which I’m discussing in this article, arrived alongside competitors such as Serato and VirtualDJ at a time where software based DJing was beginning to explode.
Each DJ has their own personal preference to play from, but the clever move by the software companies was to release applications that not only worked on high-end and professional DJ controllers such as Pioneer’s CDJ and DDJ range, but could also be downloaded for free to trial at home without the need for additional hardware.
The bedroom DJ suddenly had access to the same suite of virtual tools as the superstars had on their…
