Mix Club - The Remedial Class

Amps

Playing prog tracks, I beat match just to ward off the boredom. Are you all playing Wordle at the same time?

Mad_Cyril

Amps
If I was playing prog I’d be sticking pins in my eyes

Dan

Homegrove Precisely… I’m actually not the cleanest mixing live, but I couldn’t sync. I quite like that nervy get your first mix in.

Old-Dutch

I’m happy cheating with my eyes on Serato.

Have never used sync or cue points. Can’t be arsed with that.

Mad_Cyril

Old-Dutch
Dutch dear, you ABSOLUTELY NEEEED Cue Points.

Spending hours setting them up is all kinds of winning. Especially when a firmware update removes them.

Homegrove

Yeah not using cue points is a bit like not using cruise control while driving a modern car.

Unbroken1

…never really bothered with sync on the CDJ’s, not sure why, eye-matching the BPM’s to 0.02 on +/-6 is essentially syncing anyway. Had a play with it the other day, it’s actually pretty good, allows you to spend more time on getting clean loops and phrasing. Synced tracks when the latter isn’t right still sounds dreadful IMO.

Honestly dunno what the big deal is with it.

Anyone seen that Insta account that ‘outs’ people for using sync and even quantize!? he has to be taking the piss.

Homegrove

Unbroken1 sadly I am pretty sure he is not.

ScottBailey

Don’t see the point in having the sync button on CDJs. What’s the point in the jog wheel if you’re going to just lock it in using a button. Might as well go down the laptop route instead.

Unbroken1

Dan …dunno how he’s set up, but you can map the CDJ’s as controllers for Traktor.

ScottBailey …kinda know what you mean but there’s still an element of push/pulling to line tracks up, you can be perfectly in sync, but one beat equidistant in front/behind (if that makes sense?).

The grids don’t snap together when you hit play like with Traktor is what I guess I’m saying.

Mad_Cyril

ScottBailey
What if you can’t nail ‘traditionally’ and you’re running out of time?

Could you see a use for it then?

Dan

Novice post - How come Garnier is using three cdjs with traktor? Control cdrs? Slave leads? Just curious.

ScottBailey

Dan remember seeing Fanciulli doing something similar on a lockdown broadcast. Think there’s a way to get CDJ’s to operate as MIDI triggers for Traktor, is my guess.

IndustryStandard

Dan ….. something called HID mode in Traktor. Some CDJs can link in with Traktor and show all info on the screen, zero latency with jogs and hot cues, zero MIDI mapping required and no control CDRs. My old Mk1 CDJ900s could do it . Was very nice TBH.

ScottBailey

Mad_Cyril thought the answer to this was ‘spin back’?

Mad_Cyril

ScottBailey

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erik

ScottBailey yep

IndustryStandard

…a big piece of dev work apparently to get HID mode rolled out, so not all players have it. FOr example, my Denon SC5000s dont.

Homegrove

I played my first club gig in the local venue that’s very “Berlin” and has been up for 3 or more years. It’s in a cellar, and the DJ booth is behind a wire fence like in Tresor. Very cool, must go there as a customer too. Good sound too, played the best track from Dixon’s Tomorrowland-set (Ritmo Sagrado) that’s just 7 minutes of drum loops and it worked. Playing in front of a dancing crowd really is just the best feeling in the world.

Will share my set next week.

Mad_Cyril

Homegrove
Great stuff HG

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