page_title: Vestax
section_title: Expanding range
hierarchical_section_title: Vestax / History / Expanding range
caption_attribution_description: DSC00498 References XW-J1 DJ Controller - Special Features.&#32;Products.&#32;Casio America, Inc. (casio.com)."&#x200b;Powered by Vestax - The XW-J1 delivers all the legendary quality of Vestax professional hardware. The mixer controls are built using high quality faders and rotary knobs.&#8201;"
context_page_description: The Vestax Corporation was a Japanese musical instrument, turntable and audio equipment firm founded by Hidesato Shiino in 1977. The company started by designing and manufacturing electronic guitars. In the 1980s, Vestax produced multitracks recorders and later move to making DJ mixers, professional turntables, compact disc players and signal processors. Debt troubles lead to the company's bankruptcy at the end of 2014.
context_section_description: In 2006, Vestax moved into the burgeoning digital DJ market and released the VCI 100, an all-in-one DJ controller used to control digital DJ software. Its design of jog wheels and a mixer in a single compact frame sparked a revolution in digital DJ hardware, quickly becoming the blueprint for most DJ controllers and helping to re-establish Vestax as a major player in the DJ market. The company has subsequently solidified this position by launching a highly respected range of DJ controllers from low-end consumer models to more highly specced pro versions such as the VCI-380 and VCI-400.
  In the 2010s Vestax focused on high-tech musical electronics, creating signal processors, DJ Mixers, professional turntables and Compact Disc players. The company also reduced its range of turntables, but kept the PDX-2000mk2/2300mk2 for mainstream DJ use, and the PDX-2000mk2pro/PDX-2300pro with a new tonearm suspension system for increased skip resistance. In conjunction with DJ Qbert they have also released the QFO and QFO LE models. These turntables have built-in mixers, and a portable turntable/mixer
caption: Casio XW-J1 DJ Controller (2015) is credited "Powered by Vestax".[4]
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