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Deckshark Mako: Another Way To Ditch The Laptop

August 25

You wait years for someone to work out how to turn an ordinary Midi controller into a standalone unit, and then two solutions come along at once. Days after we wrote about Stembox, a small Seattle outfit called Deckshark

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