Terry_42

The full version of VirtualDJ is IMHO very underrated by many so called Pros and it is a big leap from the LE version.

I love having all my music with me. While I usually prepare set lists/crates that I usually stick to, sometimes you see the crowd react to a tune and you just feel “the next song needs to be this track…” and with digital you just have that with you, for sure.
Also I love to be able to take my equipment everywhere and that I do not have to invest 10k bucks into it, like in the old days. Plus the possibilities with easy samples, auto loops and much easier effects are also way cool. Never again get to a venue where some duche bar owner hooked up 2 excellent CDJs to a sad old mixer with tin can EQs…
Also never again to carry crates full of CDs or bags and bags of vinyl around is really nice on my back.

I cannot wait for a review on the terminal mix controllers. As I found out for myself that I am more the Serato guy I am holding my purchase until they drop on the market.
I hope Phil, you get one soon into your hands, really looking forward to your opinion on them.

I cannot agree more with Phil and Youssef. Hell even me 10 years ago was better than me today… sad truth, not playing for years takes you out of the game and I have to get back on the horse slowly.
The process should never end and you should always look to improve.

But also keep in mind: An audience will hear when you have love and passion for music and put that love and passion to work. And they will appreciate that fact, even if you jingle songs on iTunes.
However you can be the technical perfect scratch DJ and beat juggler, when you do not love what you do, you will fall out of thin air…

Do you guys buy single tracks in iTunes or beatport, albums or compilations?

I kinda dig good compilations, but it is really tiresome to dig through them on itunes as there are so many bad ones (mostly those with 50 tracks on them) that have maybe 2 good songs and the rest is real crap. But there are a few really good ones that are really more bang for the buck than buying single tracks.

Any chance you guys can point out some interesting compilations you heard.
I am looking especially in typical EDM, House, Chill-House, Chillout (or typical Lounge music) up to hip-hop and electro. So i have a really wide range. Maybe there are some “typical” compilations that most get. I know from the scene I come from (Industrial, EBM) there were some typicals like machine music, electronic for the masses etc. that every DJ bought (or got the promo mailed…)

A while back when I was much more attracktive than today 🙂
Waitress came in the booth to bring me my water (yeah I am one of those sober DJs) and she was a real hot one and yay she started talking me up… about a minute and a half later… SILENCE… think I forgot something here… snatched the mic quickly, shouted something retarded and hit the next song in… thankfully the audience was drunk enough that the party continued, but man I was more red than the red light effect…

I took singing lessons when I was young and am a pretty good singer. Was frontman of a band for about 10 years as a side project to my DJing.
I play guitar pretty well, not a “shred guitarist” with mad solos, but I can dish out some pretty good solo action and was playing guitar in the band too, but as “second guitarist” (and to make my singing look cooler hehe)

I also play to some degree (from best to worst): Drums and Percussions, Bass, Banjo (don’t ask) and “Maultrommel”
I can find my way around a keyboard/synth, but I could never perform live on it, I just use my knowledge in harmony to key in stuff via a midi keyboard into reason or logic.

I have no idea about the mixtrack as I do not know it, but the MacOS part:
This is just MacOS way to tell you that you have no output controls in software, so MacOS cannot control things like Volume/Pan etc. via its Preferences and you have to do it manually on the device. So it will only feed your device with the audio signal/stream and not try to do anything else (e.g. sending Volume info).
So the sound on your mixtrack should work if you use the volume controls/faders on the mixtrack, but MacOS wont be able to display the volume you use on screen in the preferences. (Your DJ software might be able to, as it gets the feedback via MIDI which MacOS does not).

So this is totally normal and not really an error message. (Happens also on most teleconference boxes you hook up via USB and most DJ controllers.)

I hope that is clear for you and I did not confuse you more hehe