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 has started shipping the Mako, a $299 box that bolts to the back of your controller, runs its own DJ software, and plays music straight off a USB stick.
The Mako docks to the back of the controller using two thumb screws and a short USB cable that stays mostly hidden once…
