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Adding decks or using a sampler for acapella overlays?

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  • July 13, 2012 at 12:39 pm #1007627
    gullum
    Participant

    Extra deck for the reasons you already mentioned and being able to use hot cues. Set a hot cue on the start of each vers corus and maybe some extra so you continuesly can trigger so cool prash in the lyricks. also that will leave one deck free to get the next song ready and going.

    July 14, 2012 at 12:21 pm #1007691
    Phil Morse
    Keymaster

    Really, they both achieve the same aim. Hotcues on a sample track on a third deck is the same as samples loaded into sample slots.

    July 14, 2012 at 6:09 pm #1007742
    DJimC
    Participant

    I agree that both can be used to achieve the same aim. Still there are some difference in their use:

    – an extra deck gives me the ability to listen to the sample before playing it (I don’t think this is possible with a sample slot in VDJ)
    – an extra deck gives me EQs for the sample
    – an extra deck gives me the ability to keychange the sample, which IMO is a big deal since you’d want your sample to mix harmonically with the music already playing

    Now the only con I could think of for an extra deck is the fact that most controllers don’t have 4 decks. Of course there are plenty that do, but it might be a bit overkill to buy a 4-deck controller just to use the two extra decks as sample decks.

    July 14, 2012 at 7:06 pm #1007746
    gullum
    Participant

    In the current version of VDJ none of what you want to be able to do can be done with using the sampler. Only thing the sampler is cabable of it shorten the sample, toggle loop one shot, and volume. And by using the sampler you can’t start you accapella anywhere els then the beginning. So for what you want to do using VDJ you have to use an other deck.
    Depending on controller it is posible with most 2 deck controllers to map them to controll 4 decks.

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