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User Manual: Rane DJ Equipment MP 44
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DJ Technology Timeline
1964 1st stereophonic disco system debuts at the 1964-1965 World’s Fair in New York.
1970 David Mancuso starts throwing after-hours parties in New York City that became known as “The Loft.”
1971 First DJ mixer is designed for the Haven club by Alex Rosner, and nicknamed “Rosie” for its inventor and red color.
1971 First commercially available DJ mixer, the Bozak CMA-10-2DL rotary club mixer.
1974 Grandmaster Flash develops his “Quick Mix Theory” for cutting and mixing records.
1975 GrandWizzard Theodore invents the scratch.
1976 First 12-inch single pressed, titled “So Much for Love” by Moment of Truth, mixed by Tom Moulton.
1977 Citronic SMP101 mixer. First British mixer with a horizontal crossfader.
1977 GLI PMX 7000 Mixer. First U.S. mixer to incorporate a horizontal crossfader labeled “Transition Control.”
1977 Paradise Garage opens in New York City featuring Larry Levan as DJ using Richard Long’s rst big sound system.
1977 Saturday Night Fever movie debuts December 16.
1977 Studio 54 opens in New York City with RLA’s famous sound system based on the Paradise Garage design.
1978 Technics SL-1200 Mark2 turntable (beefed-up version of the original SL-1200 home hi- model released in 1972).
1980 Richard Long & Alan Fierstein’s paper, “State-of-the-Art Discotheque Sound Systems,” presented at AES, New York.
1982 UREI 1620 Music Mixer, the rst Bozak mixer clone.
1982 Roland TB-303 Synthesizer/Sequencer released, nds later fame in acid house music.
1984 Rane AC 22 and AC 23 Active Crossovers. First commercially available Linkwitz-Riley crossovers.
1984 Richard Long contracts Rane to build the X3000A, Q5000 & M3000.
1984 Richard Long redesigns his disco systems to use Rane AC 22 and AC 23 crossovers to replace his original crossovers.
1985 Rane ships 1st RLA X3000A (January) and Q5000 (June).
1986 Rane MP 24 Club Mixer:
• Cleanest and quietest DJ mixer to date.
• First assignable crossfader with defeat switch.
• First “split cue” headphone cueing: stereo program or stereo cue or mono program to right and mono cue to left.
• First transformer coupled light controller output.
• First use of studio-grade faders.
1991 Rane develops and receives patent on Accelerated Slope™ EQ, used in many of Rane’s DJ mixers since.
1997 Rane releases the MM 8x Mojo Club / Mobile Mixer.
1998 Pioneer EFX-500 Eector. First DJ eects box adding echo, anging and ltering to the performing DJ’s repertoire.
1998 Vestax PMC-06 ProA. First use of “Hamster” reversal switch on crossfader and switchable crossfader curve.
1998 Rane TTM 52 and TTM 54 Turntablist Mixers:
• First use of VCA fader system.
• First use of continuous crossfader contour control.
• First use of reverse (hamster) and contour controls on channel faders.
• First use of assignable eects loop.
• First use of Rane’s patented 4th-order full-kill EQ.
1998 Mark-Jan Bastian invents and sells through his Netherlands company, N2IT, “FinalScratch”
1999 Rane les patent on 4th-order Accelerated Slope™ EQ rst used on the TTM 54 Performance Mixer (granted 2006).
1999 Rane MP 2016 & XP2016 Rotary Mixers developed from a modernized Bozak design.
1999 Korg KP1 KAOSS Pad Dynamic Eect/Controller.
2000 Rane MP 44 Club Mixer:
• First DJ mixer to feature automatic emergency paging.
• First DJ mixer with built-in limiters.
• 3-band full-kill EQ for each of four input channels and both mics.
2001 Pioneer CDJ-1000 Digital Vinyl Turntable. First CD “turntable” using a platter accurately emulating a vinyl turntable.
2001 Rane develops and receives patent (2004) on magnetic fader.
2001 Rane TTM 56 Performance Mixer:
• First appearance of digital control of non-contact magnetic faders.
2001 Rane MP 2 Compact DJ Mixer. First single rack space DJ mixer.
2002 Rane Empath Touring/Club Mixer, combining the vision of Grandmaster Flash with Rane technology:
• First use of automatic level control for inputs.
2002 EJ MIDI Turntable. Allows standard MIDI messages from turntables.
2004 Numark CDX Turntable. First standard 12" motorized platter with vinyl record and slipmat for controlling CD play.
2004 Rane partners with Serato Audio Research, a New Zealand company, to produce Scratch LIVE:
• First digital music le mixing system to work exactly like real vinyl, with none of the limitations of previous attempts.
2004 Pioneer DVJ-X1 DVD VJ player. First DVD/CD turntable.
2005 Rane MP 4 DJ Mixer for all analog and digital music sources. First mixer designed for use with PCs for MP3 playback.
2006 Rane-Serato TTM 57 Performance Mixer:
• First DJ Mixer to incorporate built-in functions for Scratch LIVE, as well as downloadable internal eects.
Rane DJ equipment. Depend on it then, now, and in the future.
Rane Corporation — Mukilteo, Washington, USA — 425.355.6000 — www.rane.com
