RANE SEVENTY TWO - IS ALL YOU WANTED IT TO BE

Getting the oh so obvious out of the way — it’s the best battle mixer Pioneer DJ has yet to make. Clearly, it’s the DJM-909 and DJM-S9 in a blender, held together with a liberal serving of Rane magic. The established Rane ID is there, but the influences are crystal clear.

Let’s bullet point this because I now need my breakfast:

Two channels classic battle mixer design
Looks like USB x 2, AUX, and phono/line selector (can’t quite make it out)
Serato DJ mixer
Classic Rane build
Mag Three x 3 fader reference — possibly updated fader in all slots
Three band EQ plus HP/LP filter per channel
2 x 8 buttons just like the S9
Separate mode buttons showing pitch play, man loop, pad fx, fader fx (ooh nice), transport, cue, auto loop, roll, sampler, and slicer.
Big central touch screen. I think it’s touch because of the touch fx button right underneath it.
Two banks x 3 effects buttons.
Flex FX button
FX depth control
Big effects switches, possibly removable to rotate switches.
Separate Sampler channel with filter control and effects routing?
2 x mic channels, with echo and duck control on mic 1
Curves and reverses on all channels
A mysterious “deck swap” LED
Footswitch input
Dual USB inputs
Dual USB outputs labeled “turntable” (be still my beating heart)
the biggest grounds in the history of the world
Booth and master
Session in/out
Phono/CD plus aux per channel
I think that’s everything of interest. So there’s a lot going on, and I imagine I’ve missed some things too. But it’s very clearly preempting whatever Pioneer DJ had planned next for the S9. inMusic is clearly piling the pressure on.