Why PCDJ's Need Vinyl

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What Do You Think Of PC DJ's?

  • They're Great

    Votes: 10 55.6%

  • They're OK

    Votes: 6 33.3%

  • They're bad for the scene

    Votes: 2 11.1%
  • Total voters
    18
fluffy puppy, shivanandan, salvia. these are just some names i have. these are all people i know or have downloaded through napster from friends that just make the music but do not have money or the facilites to start cutting vinyl. it's just a hobby for most of them and they aren't all too serious about it. there are many more out there but i dont feel like rooting through my mp3's to pick out all the names.
if you do however find any vinyl by them please let me know.
 
I do it every week

I am a club DJ who until last year was pure vinyl.

I now use PCDJ RED with the DMC controller and love it... and so does the crowd.
I carry much more music with me that any vinyl DJ could.
I can loop, beatmatch, etc. 4 tracks simultaneously(or the same track 4 times if wanted)
Plus, I still use my tables - for what they're good for - audio manipulation.
I scratch samples and play some specific vinyl mixes, but rarely use my TT's anymore for playing tracks.

As far as fame: I agree...
DJing is in the hands of anyone now... You can only be judged by creativity.

*BUT:
I produce my own tracks/remixes and play/mix them the next night. How do you do that on vinyl? a $5000 vinyl cutter?
I can get crowd reactions, change the track a little, try it again, etc.

Computer based music production and performance is here to stay.
It is in the big clubs in NY, NJ, Las Vegas, and here in Portland, OR.

Were the guys in '76 who could do this stuff running down a line of 6 Turtables cooler? Yes! but who cares?
I am not in a hidden DJ booth, and I freely tell people I'm a PCDJ. I can also beat them in an all vinyl battle if they want.

But hey don't listen to me... you don't have time. Better start cueing up that vinyl track... there's only a minute or two left in the song.(I can load and cue a beatmatched track in <5 seconds)

:o
Sumner
 
???

Is anybody else wondering how DJ Melee dj's with his head shoved way up his a**:D :cheers: :D I think pcdjing is a new outlet to get creative and build that new mix no one has heard. Plus lets say u don't have the $$$ to buy all the vinyl you want.....well kids and Melee last time I checked mp3's were FREE and abundant.......you can dl them from a bajillyon different places.........plus who else here would love to have there vinyl collection archived and it Alpa. order on there computer......Lets say you put certain tracks of your set on cd and take certain tracks on vinyl with you most places i play have cd samplers and if they don't I take my own with me and so can you if you have them. But if thats not possible you still have it on vinyl..... I look forward to future pcdj products, because everything has to start some where.... :cheers:



Has anyone heard of I think its Mixman that is a double platter console that hooks up to your pc to let you manipulate the audio just like TT's......check out www.pssl.com they sell them along w/ the Numark and American Dj Mp3 (cd) controlers:cool:
 
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you can dl mp3 from a bajillyon different places:o
 
Mixman....
I have the prog
Have seen the controller

I this the prog is cumbersome and not really a live DJ solution... more of a toy or a remixing tool(which there are better ones)

Plus, the double platters don't rotate and allow you to manipulate sound that way.
From my understanding, the buttons around the platters act as 'cue points' of the position of where the sound would be.
Now in 1999 N2IT in the Netherlands had a site that advertised the 'FinalScratch' which was tested at a large rave there.
It used a real turntable and a magnetic record that somehow interfaced with their software. It supposedly track the records every motion and the software interpretted the.mp3.
Then, it disappeared... It was written for BeOS, not Windows as well.(a much more multimedia suited OS).

Anyway, I use these to remix:
SF Acid 3.0
SF Sound Forge 5.0
SF Vegas Audio
Propellerheadz Reason
Propellerheadz Rebirth
Propellerheadz ReCycle
Plus a bunch of plugins and other minor programs.

And to Live DJ:
PCDJ Red with 19" Dual Deck Controller
4-Channel Mixer w/Sampler
2 TT's
Korg Kaoss Pad
(I have one 2U space left... any ideas? Filter maybe.)
:rolleyes:

Sumner
 
sebastian's software....

This was the first PCDJ software I was really interested in.

I spent 6 months emailing the developer's (2 guys from what I can tell - One wrote the BeOS software and the other the magnetic record.)

Cool fella's, but they told me in '99 that a release would be soon, then they fell off the face of the earth. (There old site was a dead link)

Glad to see their back. The idea of manipulating vinyl to control the .mp3 is great, but I need to test it.

It's great for 'foolin' people too.

What I would like is PCDJ RED with the ability to scratch like FinalScratch or use CD controls like PCDJ.

If anyone actual gets a product.... Please tell me all!

:)
Sumner

btw - This is written for BeOS, NOT Windows!
 
U're right, they could be fooling us, but the videos , are the tru picture of wat it is. if u got the money , i'll surely buy it and , have a 40 Gh BARACuda for the fastest RPMs, and a Notebook, a sony VIAO, and that's it my new dj setup. fi u get in contact with this product do post the resume u get from it .:cheers:
 
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