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produced a controller specifically designed for DJing, the VCI-100, that emulated two turntables and a DJ mixer setup and was built with quality components acceptable to DJs. Many manufacturers saw the success of the VCI-100 and started selling their own similar devices. Unlike the original VCI-100,
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signal into a sound card. Aside from their CDJ players, in 2011 Pioneer DJ has released their first two DJ controllers - the DDJ-S1 (Serato) and the DDJ-T1 (Traktor). Throughout the next decade up until today, Pioneer DJ has released over 40 different DJ controller models including fully standalone
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