Christopher Johnson

Here’s mine. The thing I hate is sone content doesn’t show on iPhones like SoundCloud and MixCloud embedded items. But on a computer view I’m happy with it. I did have a Public Google calendar embedded but I have no gigs so it didn’t help.
http://Www.djpossess.com

I have it but haven’t used it live. It needs to analyze your music first like Ableton and creates a little mmn data file like a .asd file. It reads bpm and keys well. The effects control is weird and not easy to use on a keyboard. The controller looks cool but it’s freaking big and hard to find online. Is it still made? What’s best is, grab 10 songs and it will lay them out horizontally w beatmatched end/starts. You can move these w a mouse and adjust volumes very easily. Play and save the mix and it sounds like hours of work but only took minutes. Ironically I don’t use it cuz it’s too easy and I’d rather make mixes while learning Traktor. But what the hell it works.

There are 3 controllers w confusing names. You want “Control” if you can find it.

I need some clarification here. Are we talking about picking songs and order before a gig. Or recording a mix at home and then playing it back at a gig? I have picked tracks for short guest spots when using Ableton and warp tracks first. Other times I use Traktor, pick a folder or list via iTunes and just play at random. The pressure of finding the next good song within 2-3 minutes is fun and mysterious. I did this 4th July weekend and 2 mixes are on SoundCloud. Planning works. Random works. Recording before a gig? Never.

Please post links for the websites suggested. That would be helpful to all. If someone can explain or write an article about Beatport that would be awesome. I have it on iPhone and find it very confusing to navigate. The website is just a cluster-f on my eyes too. I play thru the top downloads but after awhile it all sounds the same and I just give up.

I’d like to here from others on this too. I collect MusicTech and Computer Music mags w the CDs. My sample folder from all the mags is 36 gig organized by instrument type/loop/fx/vocal. I also make my own samples in Recycle for songwriting but I haven’t put any of it into DJing but I’d like to use the sample slots in Traktor.

I use Ableton an Traktor. Live is good for setting up tracks in advance but there’s alot of pre work to do. Analyze tracks. Set markers and the sync will shift too. I did a 20 min spot and blitzed thru about 40 tracks across 8 banks and it was great. But ibfind Traktor better for live use to work on the fly.

I’m a musician first and DJ second. I have songs on YouTube that I wrote intending to find a singer to do vocals. Never happened so about 20 tracks just sit there. Started learning DJing in Feb. I think my songs have groove and are danceable but I don’t know how to convert the instrumental tracks into a DJ remix or whatever. Any suggestions would be great. I have stuff on Oundcloud too but that’s mostly my early beatmatch remixing.