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MemberSteelo, post: 21462, member: 1368 wrote: Looks good but I’m not entirely understanding the concept. Is it scratching via the touchscreen or you can run it through other software?
you scratch with the touchscreen. there is a dotted circle on the screen for positional reference. You can kind of, move your hand in non-circular directions, and you can grab the video anywhere on the screen. It’s actually really cool. Don’t worry about it not making sense, back at Christmas, when I was sent the beta, I didn’t even realize it was for scratching. 🙂
It has forward and reverse, also. So when you combine “hands on manual control” with pitch, it’s actually very powerfulMemberSteelo, post: 21456, member: 1368 wrote: I’m really interested i getting in to so VJing in the future. I wish Native would made an add on for Traktor but from what I understand, they have stated they have no interest in having anything to do with video.
You can try this out right now, from the guys that make Baby Scratch.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vscratch/id524708277?mt=8
I think this app will be really useful to a lot of people, mainly because it has pitch control. I can see a lot of situations where you would use the iPad to play a video source, and do your typical mixing with your controller, TT, software etc. I think the simplicity, yet, very precise “vinyl control” in VSCRATCH is going to impress a lot of people, and satisfy the old-schoolers by making mixing “manual”..anyways check out the app. Tell ’em Steve sent ya haha, (these days I feel like I’ve lost my “influential” touch) , but I have some stuff in the works for showing the potential of not only the VSCRATCH app, but video in general.MemberSteelo, post: 21366, member: 1368 wrote: I just signed up to get the June 7th email. I can;t see it being anything than a toy with minimal functions…at this time. But its exciting to see development happening.
I agree
MemberFredFresh, post: 21198, member: 2273 wrote: Thanks for all the tips everyone!
Last time I only had posters, so I couldn’t really hand out anything. I’ll shrink the poster and hand that out;
maybe add a QR code and link it to a mix and facebook page.We slipped on the photography aspect, definitely going to try and fix that this time.
The cover is relatively cheap but we can’t get drink specials.
60 miles, don’t you think thats a bit much??
We got a well known local dj to headline this month. If I coul I’d go out more and network with other djs and people at club nights but I can only go out during the weekends because I work overnight during the week. I hate spammers, I give reminders but I don’t spam people.
Thanks D-Jam, I’ve read your guides when you first posted them, and re-read a few weeks prior to our last event.
@ Spektakx, Our event is in a good part of town, its hip and has lots of culture and young people. We’re not trying to throw a dark basement vibe, the venue is small and intimate and its an open format party; Electro, dancehall, hiphop, Bmore club, indie dance…. just no top 40.
In that case, jump to like 1 minute in the video.
[media=youtube]Hn9loii8HQM[/media]Memberlongmover, post: 21146, member: 1361 wrote: @ spektakx ive done that and it all works fine, but i can only monitor one track in headphones (the track im mixing in) why cant i listen to both tracks in the headphones?
Ohh!..my bad dude.
You want to know about “PFL” buttons. OK, http://it.virtualdj.com/forums/117266/General_Discussion/What_does_the_PFL_button_do_.html
Another interesting side note to this is that in the setting, options, you can tell vdj how to deal with the waveforms visually, the setting is called auto headphones.Memberlongmover, post: 21141, member: 1361 wrote: no controller involved, its headphones via a usb soundcard (thats plugged into laptop). the usb does have two outputs one for headphones and the other is mic.
do i need something else to get split cueing?
click “config” at top right of screen
once there, you want “sound setup” on the far left
click the drop down arrow on “soundcard” and select your audio device
above that click “outputs”-2nd option down is “headphones” this is what you want
to the right of that, you can choose which of the outputs do whatMemberHamza21, post: 21033, member: 2284 wrote: That’s worse advice ever! wedding djs are the bottom of barrel of the deejay world. They’re nothing but human jukeboxes playing middle of the road songs for middle of the road people. A newbie will never progress to be great solid deejay being a wedding dj. A wedding dj is where never-beens and has-beens go when they fall off. It won’t teach anything about song selection because 99% of the music you play is top 40 hits from 70’s,80’s and 90’s. It won’t teach how put together a solid mix of Hip Hop or latin grooves. It won’t teach you to dig for music. It won’t teach to be creative and experiment mixing songs you initially thought would not work together. Playing song to make 60 year old aunt betty dance won’t teach you about song selection because aunt betty has piss poor taste in music and is stuck in the past.
to answer the OP question all songs can be mentally catagorized. Some songs you know people will dance to they 10,9. some songs some,most of the people dance to they 8,7 and some songs most people won’t dance to but will love to hear they 6. The magic foumula for rocking dance floor is:
song 1: 10,9
song 2: 10,9
song 3: 8,7
song 4: 10,9Rinse and repeat for how ever long your set is.
I think it’s actually very good advise.
MemberWhat neighborhood is the event in? What neighborhoods is that close to? What is this neighborhood known for? Is there good parking..enough, safe, easy? Is there any other “culture” near the spot? People don’t want to go to clubs, they want to go to “events” something as simple as a food place close to the event, where people can continue to “see and be seen” can contribute. I think as one of the early post mentions being “tagged” in photos, try really hard to play on this “see and bee seen” mentality. Unless, of course, the nature of the music, is dark, basementy, disappear into a cloud of fog machine, etc. Define why people are coming, what they “get” from the night, vibe-wise. And then bring people that amplify that vibe, DJs..people..whatever.
It’s kinda like selling a TV at a yard sale. Set the tv out there, not on, no picture on the screen, and people will just drive by. Buuuut…put the TV facing the street, turned on with a picture on the screen, and within 15 minutes someone will stop and buy it. Think of you club as the TV, can the people driving by see that it is “ON” driving by should refer to all of your advertising attempts, but most importantly, word of mouth.Membersort by bpm, haha, had to do it 🙂
May 30, 2012 at 1:47 pm in reply to: Confused about manual beatmatching. Nudging and all that stuff. #1005276Memberadit, post: 21072, member: 2099 wrote: Had a longer practice session today and it all make more sense now! Finally able to beatmatch tracks with discernable beats (thump thump thump) in a minute. After only 2 days, that’s not too bad, huh? Problem comes with tracks with subtle or complex beats. They still frustrate me. There’s no “guiding thump” if you know what I mean. Any particular tips or tricks to conquer this?
this is where we get the chance to show how clever we can be 🙂 by finding “a way” to transition. One thing I like is manually pushing or rewinding the “going out” track for a measure, and adjusting the spin speed to match the new tracks tempo. You wouldn’t want to do it all day, but for 4 or 8 it’s doable.
Memberdo you have a “multi-channel” audio device? do you mean, “from your headphone port” ?
MemberSo this all got me to thinking about new interfaces, and here’s an updated post about a few cool motion-sensor type things that we all might at least want to try to DJ with
http://spektakx.com/2012/05/26/update-interface-technologies/Memberellgieff, post: 20806, member: 129 wrote: Taste isn’t the same thing as genre. Like, not even close to the same thing. Taste is about personal preference – and the system you’re talking about has no personal preference.|
You’re also confusing deductive logic with intelligence (which is based, in part, on inductive logic).Seriously, you’re postulating an automatic jukebox. These already exist – and pose no threat to the people I think of as good DJs. The difference between a DJ and a jukebox: the DJ makes choices based on his or her own knowledge, as filtered through his or her own personal taste. A jukebox plays what the punters tell it to.
Whether the punters tell the jukebox by voice, or by their phone jiggling when they’re shagging some girl in the toilets – wait, dancing their behind off on the floor, it still has no relevance to what I do as a DJ.
*shrugs*
so if I ask you
“what kind of music do you like?”
how will you answer me?“a dj makes choices based on his or her own knowledge”
the computer will have more knowledge of the individual, & the collective, and complex relationships between those
it will have instant access to every music chart, every download stat, every youtube play(and whether the person played the whole song or only part), it will know how many plays were repeats, it will know time of day for plays, it will cross reference DL lists, etc.
all it will really take is a couple of these clubs, and some feedback to the system. connecting the computer to the AC system, and monitoring temp would be a good start. all these things that sound difficult to us, would be very simple for a computer.the day they put a sync button on there, the computer began mixing
now all it needs is feedback to decide when and how.what would you think about a service where you applied, and if approved, you submit 3 – 5 song mini mixes, back to the service. (they would give you the music) The computer would then play those mixes. and just like a song dl, you’d be paid for the mix.
this is how I would start out, because the mixing algorithim could study the mixes, and it would ease the public into the idea of computer as dj.Memberellgieff, post: 20801, member: 129 wrote: This depends on what you mean by Artificial Intelligence, and what you mean by DJ.
You’re missing the issue of taste, btw. “The customers can choose the TONE” is not the AI replacing a person, it’s the AI replacing a “journalist”. And the thing here is that most “journalists” can’t actually write.
by Artificial Intelligence I mean interpreting data, or as us humans call “our senses”, and making decisions based on past events, in an attempt to create a specific desired effect.
by DJ I mean play music, mix the music on beat, EQ’d, with relevant sections of loops, fx, and mash-ups. My estimate would be a smooth result after about 5, 4 hour club nights. after 20 nights,if there had been sufficient variety in the crowd, the computer would have a sufficient base of feedback data.
no, I’m not missing the issue of taste. we already document taste, except we call it “genre”
the computer will just combine your foursquare location data, with your gyroscope data, with the songs played at the club you were at, their time, duration or mix, etc, etc. once the club computer has your foursquare locations, your twitter hashtags, and your instgram tags, your facebook likes etc. it will know your tastes quite well.
I think taste is the easiest thing to do, because the computer will be making assumptions same as as person would. except the computer will have access to all sorts of data about you, and be eavesdropping on every phone-call you make. yes, this is all dependent on the club computer recognizing you, via your phone when you come through the door. -
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