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ParticipantIt’s also worth looking at other music production software, all should be available as demos, try them out and see which fits best with you. I’m a Reason user which I love but along with (as you’ve already mentioned) Ableton, also try FL Studio, Reaper, Sonar, Cubase amongst others.
ParticipantI tend to use Spotify for the majority of home listening and all of my mobile listening, but in DJing terms not necessarily for reviewing tracks, as often I’ve already previewed and bought pre releases on Traxsource. Spotify does however prove very useful to create playlists of tracks I’ve bought (when/if released to Spotify) in order to ‘learn’ the song in advance of playing it out at a gig.
I think Spotify is an excellent service and definitely worth the £10/month subscription.
ParticipantPlaying in a field in the middle of Summer in the Somerset countryside, dropping Orbital ‘Lush 3.1’ at sunset.
ParticipantFor all those using Dell lappies, the USB2.0 port is your friend and run in full screen mode. I’ve got an XPS15 and fortunately never had a problem and haven’t had to run any optimisation (wifi and antivirus are still running).
March 28, 2012 at 12:11 pm in reply to: Where do you go to listen to online mixes by other DJs? #17484ParticipantMixriot.com
March 7, 2012 at 10:24 pm in reply to: What's your favourite online store for buying DJ music? #16405ParticipantHey all. Traxsource first and foremost, unbeatable for soulful and deep house, Beatport, Juno (remember when they first started and the weekly boxes of fresh vinyl arriving, I miss that!) and iTunes isn’t bad at all for fully released stuff.
ParticipantOnly my opinion but I think it’s difficult to look past the S2, particularly with the current price point til the end of March. The S2 is a very capable bit of kit and you’ll struggle to get bored any time soon I would think. Plus with remappings you can play around with different combos. You could always add an X1 or coming soon F1 to it at a later date for more button mashing action. Cheers.
February 23, 2012 at 1:34 pm in reply to: Sources to Search for Obscure Remixes and Other Tracks #15490ParticipantIt is a problem, I agree totally and something I’ve been looking for since getting the S4 a year ago. In particular trying to find digital versions of older, deleted vinyl is a problem. Thankfully some labels (who are still going that is!) appear to realise this and are releasing digital versions however they are often quieter due to being mastered originally for vinyl. Discogs can be useful for finding vinyl replacements as is HardToFindRecords (UK) but you may pay quite a bit for them. I’m in the process of digitizing my vinyl collection and it is a long, drawn out affair plowing through 5k+ records.
ParticipantVery nice to see a Soulful/Deep House mix here, I shall be having a listen!
ParticipantDJ Hessler, post: 15322, member: 537 wrote: That is all correct!
Cheers 🙂
ParticipantInteresting question that. IMHO, I would say the day you start playing one record after another, irrespective of audience or not. It is a bit of chicken and egg situation because in order tout for gigs you have to give the impression you are a DJ, however if the criteria is first gig/party; mine was a birthday party in 1995, but the real move for me was at University when I used to blag gigs here and there before starting my own nights, this led to a couple of residencies further down the line.
ParticipantI tend to agree with most of what Hessler says, good advice, however just to clarify Reason is a complete DAW, contains multiple synths, samplers, drum machines, check out Kong (, loads of fx modules, handles audio, mixing and mastering, everything you need to make music.
http://www.propellerheads.se/products/reason/
An example is much of the last Prodigy album was penned by Liam using Reason.
Participantsorry that should be DJ Lucky Date.
ParticipantPersonally I never pre-plan a set, it’ll go out the window in the first 15 mins I’ve found. Knowing the tracks is the key for me. I might have an idea of what I’ll start and finish with and maybe what I may like to drop in but otherwise just get stuck in.
ParticipantHi there, I’m a big fan of Propellerheads Reason (since ver 2.0), which is a self contained DAW but can be combined with other DAWs via Rewire. Others worth a look at are Ableton Live, FL Studio, Cubase, ProTools, Logic et al, there are quite a few and all have their + & -‘s as well as cost. Then you’re in to the world of VST plugins (again depending on the DAW), check Native Instruments, some great stuff there.
I suppose I’m slightly biased but Reason is great in that it contains everything you need to produce music to a high standard. Some may question the quality of the instruments but like any thing you get out what you put in, and it’s mainly people who are slightly lazy and want big sounds out of the box and never venture further than factory presets. Check BoyInABand and DJLucky for some really good examples of what can be achieved in Reason.
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