Clifford Anderson

Yeah, an Android solution is certainly going to be a less expensive tablet.

You could look into a tablet of some sort and use one of the DJ softwares for it – you can do this without a controller until you build up the dosh to buy one. It’s not a perfect solution, but might be workable for your needs. It’s also not a free solution, but can be cheap depending on what kind of tablet you pick up.

I must say, while they may not put much effort into supporting non-NI gear, I would be completely floored if NI completely removed the ability to use non-NI hardware. The amount of ill will this would generate would be absolutely incredible. It’s one thing to not put any effort inside the company to work with external gear, but if they remove MIDI connections completely, they would never recover from the *bleep*storm.

Additionally, they would be a legitimate target of a class action suit from folks who are legally entitled to the upgrade, but are not using NI gear… such as anyone who has an NI audio interface but uses a non-NI controller.

This is way beyond the scope of believable… I agree that they’re going to offer less and less official support for unofficial hardware, but I do not see where they have the legal ability to completely drop the capacity to use a MIDI controller if you or the company that manufactures it are willing to build a mapping for it.

Not everyone was excited to see the Piggers go all the way this year, so instead, we got down to some groovy music.

This was my first chance to drop the groovy funk since moving back to the US from Europe, it sure did feel good. Hoping to play more parties in the future, or I may either get myself a radio slot or something similar. I gots ta play!

I close with my latest (still unreleased) track.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed playing it.

Setlist:
Jamie Berry – Marvellous
Louis Prima vs Caro Emerald – That Man (DJ Kobayashi Mashup)
M?nage Quad – Listen to the music
Tom Drummond & Philly Blunt – Rock the House (Jayl Funk Remix)
Dancefloor Outlaws – Latin Or Not
Cherrelle – Saturday Love feat. Alexander O’Neal (JR.Dynamites 7 Days a Week Edit)
Howla & WBBL – Crazy Pavers
Young Black Teenagers – Tap The Bottle (Slynk Remix)
Yanivi vs. The Bee-Gees – Stayin’ Alive (DJ Edit)
Filip Rasch – Travelling
Villa Moirai – Track 2 (Chipspeech Edit)
Arrowhead & Zentra – Funkyard
Mr. Gettdowne – J-Kwon Do
Dedy Dread & Dj Rebel feat. Delhi Sultanate – Criss N Shine
Smokey Joe & The Kid – Sch?n
11 Acorn Lane – Sugar And Cream
Phil Mac – Swing 45
Mortisville – Spoon Full Of Sugar
Funky Boogie Brothers & Alan Hawkshaw – Jump Up
Father Funk – Get High
Ohio Players – Love Rollercoaster (Bobby C Sound TV remix)
Leygo – Money
Geto Boys – Damn it Feels Good 2 be a Gangsta (Bobby C Sound TV Remix)
deathy – Freakytown

Hi, Mauro, welcome!

Hi, uniforix, welcome!

You might want to clarify the part where you use the term Pirate (and be careful how you use it in the future), as talking about piracy is against the terms of service here and will get this thread locked if you DIDN’T mean someone who scours Soundcloud for the tracks that are legitimately available for free download rather than ripping tracks that aren’t supposed to be downloadable. (They’re all going to be low quality that way anyway, so why would you want them?)

I spend all my time scouring the net for tracks that have been posted for free download myself, my collection is probably about 95% free, and I do it for the same reason – I am not making the dosh right now to buy a lot of music. Funny thing, though… I’ve got a pretty brilliant collection of music. The number of artists who are giving their music away is pretty astounding, I do it myself (it would feel hypocritical not to, though I do post the really good stuff as PWYW in case anyone wants to toss a tip my way).

Now, to the like-to-download things… yeah, these guys can be annoying. It’s a standard feature of the various hosting services the folks are using.

Following the artist and liking the track I’m downloading not only seems fair, but is part of my process, so I’m OK with giving an automated like if the track is good enough to download – I’ve already clicked like before I’ve downloaded it. I was already liking the tracks that are free downloads before all this started to mark the track so I didn’t accidentally download it twice.

I tend to be a little stingy with my reshares, though… they tend to really clutter up the stream, which sucks, and just because I’ve downloaded a track doesn’t mean it will survive to make it into my setlist, so it seems to be putting the cart before the horse to reshare a track before I’ve had a chance to really work with it. If the app forces a reshare, I just un-reshare it as soon as it’s done. I leave the Soundcloud page open until the track is downloaded anyway, so this is easy to do… but I leave the like in place.

If the app forces a comment, then I back out and don’t download the track. I go back and comment on tracks that I have something to say about, but I’m not going to make something simple and stupid up on the spot just to download it… I mean, yeah, it’s free, but that’s pushing good taste beyond my boundaries. I’ve been considering “I don’t like forced comments,” but I find the practice tacky and just don’t support it by downloading the track and working it into my sets. Sometimes, I’ll comment “Don’t like forced comments, didn’t download,” but rarely. I do make an exception if the track blows me away enough that a comment is easy to come up with, but usually, I have to spend a bit of time with a track before it blows my mind.