Tero Nousiainen

I tend to cue tracks a lot when live. I also almost never do anything quick so you can see me having a track playing a minute or more in the background without hearing anything from the speakers (which gives me a room for some trickery in appropriate spots). Other than that I just try to have fun.

Buy a used mac 🙂

I play with late ’08 macbook white with itch and have no problems whatsoever. Itch is a lot heavier than traktor in my experience so you should be fine. These things can be taken with ya with €400.

Filter (hp) sometimes with big buildups, maybe to cover a slight keyclash or so. I also tend to use quite a bit of echo out with 1/1 or 3/2 delay when dropping fast to a new tracks’ melody or so as well, it donesn’t hurt anyways and smoothes the mix up a bit. Both used pretty suttle and not for performance.

I don’t see why would it be that bad for a beginner to get twitch…however I do suggest taking time with cdj-interface for practice. You can nudge with twitch too, but its a bit different with touchstrips. I’d go for twitch from those 2.

No it isn’t. However, I don’t agree on the grouping- just go with the flow of the crowd but spare some bangers to the last hour. 3 hours will go before you know it and you’ll be wanting to play just a few tracks more…

Todd Oddity, post: 17399, member: 1042 wrote: I don’t want to come off as argumentative, but the thickness of one’s controller has absolutely zero relation to the professional factor of the product. I’m sorry, but looks don’t matter that much. With the exception of other dj’s – absolutely nobody cares what you have in the booth as long as what is coming out of the speakers sound good. And if other dj’s are being annoying or judgemental, well, it’s your show, give them the boot!

How would it be bad to have other dj’s/mgmts acceptance?

Todd Oddity, post: 17399, member: 1042 wrote:

RB75’s band analogy is perfect. Standardisation hurts creativity. In all honesty, I think it is unlikely you will see a universal standard in controllers – there isn’t a “one style fits all” option and nothing about the way the industry is evolving looks like it is moving towards one. If anything, I think you will continue to see greater variety in the types and styles of controllers and more venues with “blank slate” booths – an empty counter for your gear and you walk in, unpack, and plug in, much the same way a band comes in and sets up on an empty stage.

It was not perfect. Correct analogy would have been that everyone uses same drums, but can swap their places as they please. Put performance-oriented dj’s aside, I don’t see how vci-400 type controller, that has sh!tload of assignable commands can hurt creativity as it is needed for 95% of dj’s around. People have been happy with cdj’s for ages, why wouldn’t they be now with more advanced gear that can be customised?

Hockeybag.

Thing is that cdj’s are still seen as “pro” gear more than controllers. Plus, controllers are lacking a standard as cdj 2000’s are atm in the cdj world. If someone were to make a universal sandard controller which was
a) large enough to be spacy
b) solid making
c) just the right amount of flashy lights to look cool
d) supported by all software natively
e) stand-alone mixer-capable to put cdj’s to it as extra and in case the software was to crash it would be more supported and have street-cred in the eyes of most.

A&H xone 4D was the first to come close, now vci-400 is close as well but a bit cramped and too flat to match cdj’s height and therefore not looking like it belongs to a dj booth. Yes, looks matter that much.

My .05 cents…