What excites you most about digital DJing?

Manipulation, I love cue point jugling, looping, and all the extra goodies. Being able to completely chop up a track, rearrange it, and then put it back together into something different on the fly is just so amazingly awesome. Every now and then when I’m playing I have one of those “Holy shit, this is awesome moments”.

Possibilities. Knowing that I can map my controller to work like I want it to makes it all more interesting to me than CDJs or TTs. Digital DJing is a bridge between “regular” DJing and production on the other side.. You can search your music by any element you want, you can map chained super effect knobs and whatnot but you can also put some work into creating seamless mixes and live remixes of whatever you want. The possibilities are nearly endless..

I have thoroughly loved the challenge of getting to grips with the apps and the technology that wasn’t there when I were’t lad. Most of all I have gotten a huge kick out of learning about midi, something that I previously considered to be a dark art. Having said all of that, I am finding that I am starting to be pulled back to the “old ways”. If an acetate press landed on my door step tomorrow I think traktor would be packing its bags. I also hate having alll my tunes in one place. I think I would genuinely prefer going back a 60 count record case and have to edit what I take with me. Choice for me isn’t always a good thing. Ideally I want to take the interface out of the experience get back to the real feeling of mixing. Having said ALL…………………………….. of that too, I pay $2 a track versus 5-7 quid. I can go shopping anytime rather than having to get on a bloody boat to get to the record shop. I can also do some of the prep work offline when I am travelling and don’t necessarily have all my kit to hand. I am also a sucker for technology so all this stuff is a good. I think I need two setups. 2 decks and a simple mixer and then the Traktor setup. I need to earn some more money……

I’m starting to go Smittens way here..
But i have taken the first step on that dark road! 😀
Very obviously some of the stuff i play is pre digital, and even with the vast and sometimes dodgy oldskool P2P resources available, a lot of stuff aint out there digitally, so it means buying wax and ripping it myself..
And despite last Christmas i gave away most of what was left of my vinyl, the pile that i have bought to rip is creeping up again.
I bought an analogue 4 channel mixer last month and ran the Omnicontrol’s 2 outputs through two of this mixers line ins, and run the turntable i use for ripping through another phono in.
It’s actually miles more flexible, as the mixer is analogue i can now overdrive eq’s or gains to high hell without clipping, something i cant do on the Omni alone… and of course for old times sake i can spin a tune on its original wax and bring that in to an otherwise digital set

Getting away from the Two Deck/Turntable paradigm.

Cool Cats, post: 9838 wrote: Beatport…and the thousands of remixes on Hype Machine to choose from.

You want Kesha? Guess what. I hate Kesha. What’s that electro-house remix? Guess what. I’m playing Kesha tonight!

Kudos to that!

lol Cool Cats, lol Smitten

i love that i can have all my music in one spot,and the fact i dont have to carry heavy equipment any more.and that everything i used to do on turntables i can do with a midi controller.(and it saves my back!!!)