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qirex posted:There's software to automate this, Rekord Buddy if you're on a Mac, I think there's similar Windows software floating around. If you don't have many cue points and stuff it might not be worth $60 though. There used to be a free Native Instruments utility to do that very thing. I seem to remember it was in their forums. edit: http://forum.djtechtools.com/showthread.php?t=12266 The download links still work. TheWevel fucked around with this message at 15:48 on May 19, 2017 |
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TheWevel posted:There used to be a free Native Instruments utility to do that very thing. I seem to remember it was in their forums. Thanks, this is super helpful! Will be nice to jump straight into Traktor without re-doing all my cue points  I may have to make the transition sooner than I thought, too -- my poor VCI-300 can't connect to Serato on my Mac anymore, and I've no idea why. Works fine on Windows on my desktop, but that's not so useful for playing out.
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So I had my first ever "gig" this last weekend for my friend's parents' 50th birthday party. I downloaded a ton of music so I had a good library of stuff. I was definitely a little nervous since playing Top-40 and Older Hits is not my comfort zone (usually do house music) but it ended up being a lot of fun. I had two major fuckups but I was able to kinda play them off pretty quickly on the fly and most didn't notice or forgot after 5 seconds. I got a LOT of compliments on my song selection which I was happy about because I put a ton of time into organizing a great blend of newer and older dance hits. I started off relatively slow (about 80bpm) and worked my way up to 128 which is where I have things down. At that point I felt like I was in a zone and decided to change up the rest of the set to keep it at that energy level. My friend who also DJs said that I did a really good job for my first time and he kept giving me thumbs up when he noticed a smooth transition. I think the best part of the night was when the birthday girl came up and asked if I could play Regulate by Warren G at some point and I smiled back and let her know it was already the next song cued up. One thing I realized is that I do not have the stamina or lifestyle right now to make DJing an easy thing to do on the side. I work a normal 8:00-5:00 job Monday through Friday and I found it difficult to really focus on doing my other "job" starting at 10:00pm on a Saturday night. And that doesn't include packing up all my poo poo, driving there, setting everything up, and then dong the same thing after. Is this a pretty normal thing to have to get used to? I also just turned 30 and while I'm not that old, I have definitely noticed myself slow down a bit compared to when I was 22 or so. Also, I now realize just how loving annoying it is to have people request songs when I am in the middle of playing. Not the birthday girl, she could ask me for whatever she wanted, it's her party. But I had random people come up and say "Hey could you maybe play some older stuff like Earth, Wind and Fire?" This was immediately after I had played Billie Jean, EW&F wasn't on the list of bands the birthday group wanted, and she kept naming off old bands to try and get me to play something from them. She had not been dancing at ALL the entire night, despite plenty of other people dancing and having a great time. Sorry you don't like this music that much but this isn't your party. I was really nice about it and tried to play a few more older songs on my list but I couldn't imagine doing that at someone else's birthday party. MrSargent fucked around with this message at 18:26 on May 22, 2017 |
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May 22, 2017 18:19
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MrSargent posted:Also, I now realize just how loving annoying it is to have people request songs when I am in the middle of playing. Not the birthday girl, she could ask me for whatever she wanted, it's her party. But I had random people come up and say "Hey could you maybe play some older stuff like Earth, Wind and Fire?" This was immediately after I had played Billie Jean, EW&F wasn't on the list of bands the birthday group wanted, and she kept naming off old bands to try and get me to play something from them. She had not been dancing at ALL the entire night, despite plenty of other people dancing and having a great time. Sorry you don't like this music that much but this isn't your party. I was really nice about it and tried to play a few more older songs on my list but I couldn't imagine doing that at someone else's birthday party. The life of a party DJ... Less so when you have a 'name' for yourself or you're playing the kind of event that's quite clearly no requests ie; a night. Nice work though, mistakes are expected as it's surprisingly stressful trying to make poo poo run smoothly. I once stopped the wrong deck at a NYE party, I just put my hands up and quickly needle dropped roughly back where I was. Nobody minds.
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May 23, 2017 09:14
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MrSargent posted:Regulate by Warren G tuuuuuuuuune quote:One thing I realized is that I do not have the stamina or lifestyle right now to make DJing an easy thing to do on the side. I work a normal 8:00-5:00 job Monday through Friday and I found it difficult to really focus on doing my other "job" starting at 10:00pm on a Saturday night. And that doesn't include packing up all my poo poo, driving there, setting everything up, and then dong the same thing after. Is this a pretty normal thing to have to get used to? I also just turned 30 and while I'm not that old, I have definitely noticed myself slow down a bit compared to when I was 22 or so. quote:Also, I now realize just how loving annoying it is to have people request songs when I am in the middle of playing OK sure, but 1. It's part of the job, and 2. Shame on you for not having earth wind and fire!! Let's Groove is 126 bpm.
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May 24, 2017 02:13
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NevergirlsOFFICIAL posted:OK sure, but This is all fair. I think I was just annoyed with this one person in particular. I should definitely have some earth wind and fire but I literally just started building a library and got as much as I could for this first job. Going to download that right now, thanks!
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May 24, 2017 03:42
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There's always this for those annoying repeat customers...  
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I was spinning a party a while back and had some chick request some awful bullshit top40 track while I was in the middle of spinning prog house for around 200 folks. I blankly told her no and turned around and she had a goddamn meltdown. It was hilarious. I don't really have a problem with requests AS LONG AS they're the same genre as what's being played at the party.
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May 26, 2017 14:25
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MrSargent posted:This is all fair. I think I was just annoyed with this one person in particular. I should definitely have some earth wind and fire but I literally just started building a library and got as much as I could for this first job. Going to download that right now, thanks! I was doing a wedding on Saturday and thought of you. This woman who was completely hammered kept requesting Chumbawamba "Tubthumping". Now, Chumbawamba is not-so-secretly one of my favorite bands, but I've also endured years of people making fun of me for it, so I was like "you're drunk I'm not taking that request here's some Weeknd". Anyway when there was like 15 minutes left and she still wouldn't quit I was like gently caress it, and played it. And sure enough, it KILLED. People that weren't dancing before got on the floor, everyone jumping, etc. Outstanding. So this story is to say that even if you're a "professional", some times the drunk lady really knows what she's talking about.
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May 29, 2017 13:43
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I have a trap remix of Tubthumping that gets way more play than it should
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May 29, 2017 14:35
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Link pls
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Olympic Mathlete posted:There's always this for those annoying repeat customers... Whomever wrote this is more insufferable than repeat requesters. "please explain how you can transition from genre to genre and from bpm to bpm" seriously?
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NevergirlsOFFICIAL posted:Whomever wrote this is more insufferable than repeat requesters. I mean the easy answer is basically just "backspin transition, next question." Right?
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May 30, 2017 01:48
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NevergirlsOFFICIAL posted:I was doing a wedding on Saturday and thought of you. This woman who was completely hammered kept requesting Chumbawamba "Tubthumping". Now, Chumbawamba is not-so-secretly one of my favorite bands, but I've also endured years of people making fun of me for it, so I was like "you're drunk I'm not taking that request here's some Weeknd". Anyway when there was like 15 minutes left and she still wouldn't quit I was like gently caress it, and played it. And sure enough, it KILLED. People that weren't dancing before got on the floor, everyone jumping, etc. Outstanding. Hahahah this is an amazing story, thanks for sharing. **Adds Tubthumping to library**
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dropkickpikachu posted:I mean the easy answer is basically just "backspin transition, next question." Right? Or just, slam the crossfader? Fade out/fade in? Literally push stop and start the next song? Simple is good!
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May 30, 2017 18:01
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NevergirlsOFFICIAL posted:Or just, slam the crossfader? Fade out/fade in? Literally push stop and start the next song? Simple is good! This is the only way I know to switch genres or big BPM changes because I don't have gear that can easily switch from precise to wide pitch sliders 
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May 30, 2017 22:32
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Turn off motor on outgoing deck, scratch into incoming beat as it slows and then crank the bass when you let go.
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revmoo posted:Turn off motor on outgoing deck, scratch into incoming beat as it slows and then crank the bass when you let go. turning the TT off is the best effect. pretty hard to mess it up really.
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May 31, 2017 00:23
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Only use transitions. The more pitbull the better.
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NevergirlsOFFICIAL posted:Whomever wrote this is more insufferable than repeat requesters. You know it's a joke, right?
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May 31, 2017 01:15
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Just smash the airhorn sample pad on your deck over and over as you crossfade from a DNB track to Tim McGraw
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dropkickpikachu posted:Just smash the airhorn sample pad on your deck over and over as you crossfade from a DNB track to Tim McGraw Isn't this how you are supposed to transition between ALL songs?
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Olympic Mathlete posted:You know it's a joke, right? Is it? I feel like so many DJs get mad about requests I thought it was serious.
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dropkickpikachu posted:Just smash the airhorn sample pad on your deck over and over as you crossfade from a DNB track to Tim McGraw I mean in an ideal situation you're djing via youtube in which case you can just use lickshot https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lickshot/mhnghnbgphnoifbgfimejdmjcdibppio?hl=en
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For beatport users, I just found this: crates.co (although it looks like it's around a year old at this point) https://ask.audio/articles/why-crates-co-is-the-beatport-update-you-didn-t-know-you-needed
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I got so lucky getting a used SX for cheap as hell, I've spent 3 months scouring every app and site on the web for used gear to get what I really wanted. Finally landed a used XDJ-RX that's turned out to be in absolutely mint condition for only $800, at long last the only thing I'll really need unless I win the lottery and can blow a wad on nexus 2's. I absolutely love this thing and can't wait to start using it over the summer for parties without needing to lug around a laptop and feel like I'm on legit gear for once.
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Friday thought experiment: on a scale of "slightly stupid" to "you're a moron" how bad of an idea would it be to try to teach myself to scratch on a PT-01? I just simply don't have space for full turntables at the moment and the idea of being able to use timecode and a mixfader with my phone or iPad is super appealing. I figure if nothing else I'll end up with a super light touch.
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qirex posted:Friday thought experiment: on a scale of "slightly stupid" to "you're a moron" how bad of an idea would it be to try to teach myself to scratch on a PT-01? I just simply don't have space for full turntables at the moment and the idea of being able to use timecode and a mixfader with my phone or iPad is super appealing. I figure if nothing else I'll end up with a super light touch. Two of my friends who are turntablists can rock a pt-01 with a mixfader. I've only seen videos of them working it, but it sounds like it's fine. I'd say give it a shot
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dj bobby bieber posted:Two of my friends who are turntablists can rock a pt-01 with a mixfader. I've only seen videos of them working it, but it sounds like it's fine. I'd say give it a shot I mean learn from the beginning. I have a feeling it's like trying to learn pool on one of those Sharper Image tabletop pool tables.
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qirex posted:I mean learn from the beginning. I have a feeling it's like trying to learn pool on one of those Sharper Image tabletop pool tables. From my experience I wouldn't recommend it if you want to learn more fun and interesting stuff than stabs and baby scratches. It's not that it won't be possible, it's just a self imposed handicap that will slow down your learning
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qirex posted:I mean learn from the beginning. I have a feeling it's like trying to learn pool on one of those Sharper Image tabletop pool tables. I mean, my recommendation would be a PDX-2000 and a baby mixer. that shouldn't set you back too much.
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qirex posted:Friday thought experiment: on a scale of "slightly stupid" to "you're a moron" how bad of an idea would it be to try to teach myself to scratch on a PT-01? I just simply don't have space for full turntables at the moment and the idea of being able to use timecode and a mixfader with my phone or iPad is super appealing. I figure if nothing else I'll end up with a super light touch. Looking at it I'm not sure it'll have enough 'go' on the platter to give you any reasonable sense of what it's like to do it on a full size deck with a nice big, weighted platter and strong direct drive motor. That said I've seen a dude 'scratch' on a loving tape deck so............ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=088AWsTtTFU
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It's more about space and complexity than budget, I actually have a decent scratch mixer sitting in my closet. It's also about me not starting to buy records again [I had a problem with buying records] and wanting to keep my computer out of the equation. Other things I've been considering are a controller that can interface with iOS like the Reloop Beatpad or even an XDJ [but at that point I'm saving no space and exceeding the cost of buying a decent record player]. The appeal of the PT-01 setup is I could put it away instead of dedicating a huge chunk of space to it. I'm a total corner case I know. reminds me of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xuy0GAsnNQ
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That's the initial video I thought of but then on rewatching it realised he wasn't exactly scratching. I then found that other one which is actually really loving cool.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:That's the initial video I thought of but then on rewatching it realised he wasn't exactly scratching. I then found that other one which is actually really loving cool. If you go later in the video he does some rudimentary juggling but yeah, the one you posted is more actual scratching. I just have a permanent soft spot for '90s DMC videos. Life was so much simpler then 
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keevo posted:Why is Rekordbox so bad? It's better than Serato.
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keevo posted:Why is Rekordbox so bad? Do you mean as an organizer/analyzer or performance mode? Because it's probably the best to set up tracks for an RX or CDJ's, the way it allows organization is the best there is IMO. But yes performance mode is absolute rear end and it's far too tiny.
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keevo posted:Why is Rekordbox so bad? wait till you sync your usb, one of your tracks only half syncs and you're playing it out. gotta love dead air.
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qirex posted:If you go later in the video he does some rudimentary juggling but yeah, the one you posted is more actual scratching. I just have a permanent soft spot for '90s DMC videos. Life was so much simpler then This popped up for me today, mods for the PT01... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEPz0DDARJ0
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