ION iCUE Up Your Digital Sounds for Mixing

For DJs, first there was vinyl, then there was CDs…and now there's MP3s. We're pretty sure we heard at one point that the true old skool DJ would touch nothing but the black plastic platters, but we're happy to have the march of technology prove us wrong, particularly when it comes in such convenient packages, like Ion Audio's iCUE. The iCUE is a USB 1.1 DJ mixer that uses audio files for club-style mixing, and comes complete with faders, pitch wheels, and EQ knobs – and a scratch button, which seems like a little bit of a cop-out over the skill needed for authentic vinyl scratching – for the complete DJ experience. There's also a built-in sampler for building loops, and Windows-based software to beat match sound files so you don't mess up a groove.