Electricbloom

mixing in key is great if you like long smooth mixes in techno, house ext. I created some pretty epic moments by mixing two heavy melodic tracks together in key. Though it shouldn’t be the most important thing, it sounds great to my ears and makes it sound so much smoother imo 🙂

Thinking about this and a ‘standard’ for controllers: I’m imagining tPioneer (or more likely) A&H coming out with a professionally built, sort of xone 4D advanced type mixer/controller which you can load your own mappings to (via sd card like the Pio CDJ units with cue points) and which is compatible with all major software. That will be the new standard. It might be up to the hardware manufacturers to come up with a standard for cue point files ect.

Or they might they come up with a small slimline yet professional controller setup up next to their mixer again compatible with all major software.

I think the crux for a new industry standard is some sort of ability for DJs to just load up their own mappings in to the controller/mixers in the clubs via a simple method, again like a SD card and then just plug in the laptop and rock!

Serato, Traktor, Pio, A&H and Denon should just have a meeting and set a standard format, just like a SIM card which is used by all carriers and manufacturers.

nice man! have a tracklist? 🙂

I use Serato Intro at the moment. My mixtrack pro came with VDJ, but it was sort of glitchy for some reason I couldn’t figure out, so I downloaded the new Serato Intro. I like the parallel waveforms a lot. Tried Traktor as well, didn’t find it very inuitive or easy to work witj, though that might by cause of the bad job I did mapping it… and that’s the strength of Searto, it’s just plug and play, I don’t want to be messing around with mappings.

I think i downloaded a early version of Virtual DJ. I was trying to mix indie rock with completely different BPM: of course it sounded terrible. Didn’t understand anything. Sync button gave me weird results.

tip to the total beginner: the sync button doesn’t work all the time. 😛

Always read the crowd, every party is different. One of the few gigs I’ve done was for ‘oldtimers’ (60+) it was great fun to watch them go crazy on chubby checker the one moment and then see everybody waltzing the next. Though don’t switch genres every song, give people a chance to adjust and get in the groove for a bit, then read your crowd and when the eneryg drops or changes switch it up,

Utrecht hier 🙂 You must know the Kranck parties if you’re style is tech house?

Great mix man! enjoying it right now 🙂

Your name sounds Dutch btw, are you? 😉

cheers