Pacemaker handheld DJ unit

A handheld DJ mixer called Pacemaker by a new Swedish company called Tonium.

Think of it as an iPod, with a built-in DJ mixing booth - and effects box attached.

It will also fit into your pocket, being it’s 164mm/70mm/23mm (think PSP-sized) and 200g.

It’s held the opposite way to the PSP (vertically), placing a small display at the top of the device, two cross faders in the middle, and a round touch pad at the bottom. The pad is used for finding track cue points as well as controlling the effects. Four other buttons are used for looping ‘n’ that.

Importantly it’s got two outputs - headphone (natch) and line out, for plugging into the sound systems.

Loaded with a 120Gb hard drive and an estimated 18 hours playback time, it’s not going to limit your artistic performances.

Supported audio formats are the usual suspects, plus OGG Vobis for the open-source fans, and FLAC for the quality fanatics.

Ola Sars, their sales and marketing director tells me that the idea has been rattling around the head of CEO Jonas Norberg for the last two years. Things have stepped up a gear since then and for the last year they’ve been developing the device and are meeting with investors currently.

In the wild
Tonium, the company behind the Pacemaker, took it to Sonar, the well-known music festival in Barcelona, for its first public airing. From the videos and pictures that we’ve seen, it went down well.



If it works as well as it looks like it does, this could be one of the biggest hits.





Basic functions
1
Display
2
Rewind – search/skip track
3
Forward – search/skip track
4
Channel 1 – select for input
5
Channel 2 – select for input
6
Play – play/pause track
7
Cue – set/launch at cue point
8
Crossfade indicator
9
Crossfade slider
10
Menu – enter/exit music library
11 Touchpad – navigate/adjust
12 Strap holder
13 Settings – turn on device/
access settings
14 USB connector
15 Kill All – disable/relaunch FX
16 Power connector
17 Lineout connector
18 Phones connector


Extended functions
P-switch held up
19 P-switch – for extended input
20 Rewind – set/adjust loop
in-point; split/double loop
21 Forward – set/adjust loop end-point; split/double loop
22 Channel 1 – toggle time played/time left
23 Channel 2 – toggle time played/time left
24 Play – reverse play
25 Cue – exit/re-enter loop
26 Touchpad – navigate/adjust


Headphone functions
P-switch held down
27 P-switch – for phones adjust
28 Crossfader – channel blend
29 Touchpad – phones volume

This baby is currently for Dhs 2999

Available in gitex shoppers