i think i'm gonna plump for one of these...nice and cheap too:
http://www.evolution.co.uk/products/evo_xsession.htm
i wonder if the mxf8 from the Notron people will be good (eh martin? :)
i guess the A&H xone 92 (drool) is the ultimate but at £1150 it's way
out of my league!
robin...
Martin wrote:
True, true - I've seen some great stuff done with both - but I think the
game is about to get hotter - on Wednesday I witnessed one of the best, if
not only real-time controllers for these packages - I can't say any more, as
I'm under an NDA but the end of Feb will be very interesting...
23/1/04 11:47 AM Brendan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alex Bond wrote:
so maybe digital dj'ing allows someone to think more about
programming than actual mixing (as it's virtually 'automatic')
and I think that has to be a good thing. I think?
I'd actually say that digital dj'ing gives DJs the flexibility to choose how
much "automation" they want to use - you're not *restricted* to nicely
automated beatmatching and so on if you don't want to be.
For example, I've been using Ableton heavily for over a year now (having used
it on the Offworld Party Time and All Cylinders mixes, as well as playing out
with it three or four times) and count myself as a pretty experienced user by
now. Recently, however, I played with Final Scratch for the first time, and it
was a major eye-opener.
It's a different world from Ableton altogether; in the world of Ableton, if
you want imprecision in your mixes, you have to actually *build it in* (do
very minor adjustments to the warp markers etc to give the impression tracks
are drifting subtly in and out of time), which is quite bizarre when you think
about it. However, with Final Scatch, there's really no difference from vinyl
mixing apart from the fact that you can play tracks that only exist on hard
drive as well as tracks that exist on vinyl.
So there's space in the world for both Final Scratch and Ableton Live, but the
two of them represent completely opposite sides of the whole spectrum of
digital mixing. Want to keep the rawness and imprecision of vinyl mixing
without having to break your back carrying records around? Use Final Scratch.
Want to be able to concentrate more on the arrangement, sound and programming
of your mix than on the mechanics of mixing? Use Ableton Live. Ideally? Use a
combination of the two as well as real records (that's my approach at least!).
All in all, I do think it's a good thing that when a person thinks "I'm going
to do a mix" there are a number of approaches he or she can adopt in producing
that mix; each of which will play to different strengths that DJ might have,
each of which will affect the nature and structure of the mix in interesting
ways. Not all digital DJs will automate their beatmixing and concentrate more
on structure; maybe the key thing to understand about digital DJing is that it
will lead to a whole bunch of people doing a whole range of different things,
a lot of which we can't really predict right now.
Brendan
www.lunarselector.com
www.non-stop-djs.com
