Numark has announced a flurry of new products for NAMM.

First up is the MixDeck, a new integrated all in one DJ solution that can handle everything from CD’s to mp3’s to an iPod.

Complete system with CD/MP3/USB decks, mixer, computer audio and MIDI interface, and Universal Dock for iPod
Play from CDs, MP3 CDs, USB flash drives, [...]

Indamixx has posted a video up doing a quick walkthrough of some of their partnered laptops and software including EnergyXT, Renoise and a new DJ software. Also quickly featured is a couple of new laptops such as their netbook, HDMI DJ system, IndaMixx Pro and IndaMixx Slim.
Great proof that Linux can succeed in audio in both the [...]

Denon has announced two new DJ controllers. The first one is the DN-HC5000 and is designed to control Serato Scratch Live.

Features include:

Serato-approved USB MIDI Sub Controller for Serato Scratch Live
Simple USB plug-and-play Connection (USB MIDI / Bus power)
Dedicated tactile controls to replace computer keyboard shortcuts
High-quality steel cabinet with rugged rubber keys
File Select knob and buttons with back-forward [...]

Soundcloud has sort of taken the music community by storm this past year. Starting about a year ago they just announced they are 500,000 users strong last week on their Twitter page. The service is designed for musicians to share music, generally with each other and allow for a commenting system for that music. Other [...]

 
First news from NAMM is trickling in. Akai has announced a new version of their APC line with the APC20. This is essentially half of the previously released APC40 from last year. The new APC20 features everything but some send effects, additional knobs and the crossfader from its older brother.
From the press online it [...]

Korg has announced an updated version of their popular Kaossilator. The Kaossilator Pro is basically a step up from last year’s model and is analogous to the MiniKP and its bigger brother the KaossPad 3.
The Kaossilator Pro takes the same basic hardware specs and idea of the KP3 and focused on a sound source rather [...]

Novation and Ableton have announced a new dedicated controller for Ableton Live called the Launchpad. Taking obvious design ques from the popular DIY Monome kits, the launch pad a 64 button interface designed to control Live’s session view.
Details from Ableton.com
Big grid
Launchpad features a multi-color, 64-button grid for launching clips plus eight dedicated scene-launch buttons. The [...]

The popularity of Pioneer’s CDJ-1000’s is hard to argue. They have pretty much become the CD-deck standard for DJ’ing as the Technic SL-1200’s have for vinyl. Pioneer has announced the next lineup of its popular CD decks with the CDJ-2000. This new deck features a 480×234 LCD screen and can access media directly from SD [...]

Aviary, the makers of popular online image and vector editing tools has announced a new product to its lineup called Myna. Myna is a multi-track recording software akin to Garageband or Reaper. In fact the transport windows even act the same was as Garageband. It doesn’t support plugins, but it has all of the basic [...]

Novation has just announced keyboard versions of its popular Nocturn midi controller series. This move looks to be an attempt to reposition their product line as Remote SL series comes in higher end with the built in LCD screen and the Nocturn series coming in below that without the LCD features. From the photos the [...]