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I upgraded and checked everything for the next Sad Boys-gig on Saturday where we play with Rekordbox DJ from Tidal. Could not get the XDJs connected. After trying everything from re-installing all the drivers and so forth checked my subscription (XDJ700s are not unlock-devices) and found out I’d subscribed to Free+cloud instead of core. 🤦‍♂️

Now it works.

The export-side was a pain in the ass, had to export everything on my home USB again. Gig wise I always export the playlists fresh before the gig on a freshly cleaned flashdrives, so I always have to make time for that. It’s so fucking slow still.

    Modern DJing sounds like great craic. 😐️

    • Dan replied to this.

      I like the Sven Vath approach, a big bag of fuck off techno, 2 decks and a mixer.

        Smallman1
        Was at Amnesia a couple of years ago, he was playing.

        I had to take some timeout to pull myself together, so sat and watched him. He was enjoying chatting with his mates/hangers on, but when it came to the end of a record he’d choose a new one from his bag, put it on, queue it up, beat match it, mix it, put the old record back in his bag - all done in less than a minute. Then he’d carry on partying.

        Proper deck wizard.

            Ha true. I’m sure we’ve all seen enough ‘big name’ DJs play vinyl badly, though. It was great to see a DJ stick to their roots.

            Can you imagine if Jaded Clubbers took over Amnesia.

            It would take 8hrs to get all the tech lined up only for the latest Jobe release to come out the speakers.

              Trisco blaring out the system as the sun comes through the roof. You’d love it.

                mjh Trisco blaring out the system as the sun comes through the roof. You’d love it.

                Now we’re talking!

                  At least there was a barrier to entry with decks. Without the sync button or waveform display some of these modern djs would be fucked.

                    mono-stereo I don’t need the sync button, but the waveform comes in handy.

                    Accessibility is a good thing, more people getting involved makes it better

                        Along_the_Wire Accessibility is a good thing, more people getting involved makes it better

                        Well that depends on your idea of better. If that means you get a load of performative instagram DJs waving their arms about like cunts without worrying about musicality, then yeah.

                        The same can be said about producers using presets. You just end up with more shite to wade through.

                            Homegrove It’s so fucking slow still.

                            I found the USB export painfully slow this time - but it didn’t do that in the Beta testing.

                            An hour ago I found out why, and the fix.

                            Some of what this guy does is handy as fuck - he’s worth a follow and developed some non subscription based tools to manage databases across different brands https://www.atgr.nl/ (Mac only).

                              Along_the_Wire. Of course you don’t. I dunno. Prehaps no one gives a shit about the “art” of the DJ any more?

                              I suppose the question is are the kids on the dancefloor having fun, if yes then who cares?

                                  mono-stereo Prehaps no one gives a shit about the “art” of the DJ any more?

                                  There are still people in the digital world who do.

                                  I really had to get my head out of the technology side to allow that in to be honest

                                  In some ways Live Streaming made being in the moment harder because there was so much to think about and the devices / connections would conspire with each other to break for no reason at random.

                                  Getting into your own flow / being present FTW