On Dec 4, 2004, at 3:39 PM, Thomas D. Cox, Jr. wrote:
isnt that what the CD industry was saying about vinyl in the 80s? somehow i doubt people with vinyl are worried about keeping up with the times. again, you have to look at who is saying these things. obviously software people have a vested in taking over the deejay market with something that doesnt need any more money invested in it immediately. no offense to the software companies, but they havent been around long enough to be trusted alone with the future of our music. their interest is in selling as many copies of updated software as they can, this is also why im pretty wary of software based music production. there's something inherently evil about it somehow. think about it like this: when you buy turntables you give one company your money, then you give your money to another when you buy your mixer, and then many many companies when you buy your records. with software, you give all your money to one place, and then you give it to them again later when the "upgraded" version of the software comes out. there's no end in sight of giving them your money, especially when they stop making updates to the version of the software you have. ive never had to upgrade my technics, or any of my records.
I gotta say that the "upgrade" marketing thingy is something that gives me pause as well. I suppose that every large-scale change in music re/production will have both good and bad repercussions, but this is a good reason to preserve some of the "old" ways of being a DJ. I suspect that, 20 years from now, most DJs will be "fluent" in both old and newer modes of performance (i.e. vinyl and digital).
things that make you go hmm, Luis
