Papa Bear

The more RAM the better. Period.

Otherwise, agreeing with atom. A few years ago there could have been issues with durability caused by read/write heads messing up their job, but today… no more. I’d take an 7200 over 5400s anytime.

DJ Retro Blaze, post: 18403, member: 1589 wrote:
The second hurdle that controllers face is the low cost of entry does not filter out individuals who do not take the craft of DJing seriously

Bah, so you can only be a good DJ if you spend billions and trillions of dollars?
Sorry, but that is a typical looking-down point of view. And I bet even our great idols didn’t start with a full-fledged, 5k$ setup. What about spending lots of money and recognizing the setup is bullocks?

I don’t want to sound rude, but this money question drives me nuts.
You cannot be a good artist if you don’t use the most expensive paint.
You cannot be a good photographer if you don’t own a Hasselblad.
…

I know people who use a 20years old analogue camera and cheapest available paint and would make the rich kids blush and run away in shame. Artistic quality can be emphasized or raised to a new level by good equipment, but you can have all the gear available, without talent you will never become better than average. Never fu%§ing ever.

Sorry, this makes me friggin’ angry.

This is no personal offense, Blaze, I just don’t like that certain argument.
Aight? 😉

reason808, post: 18243, member: 831 wrote: Half the club thought I said the n-word on a shitty house PA system! . . . especially bad because I was the only white guy at a hip-hop club!

I usually said “Thanks for coming down to Knicker’s Tonight” after stopping the music at night’s end. That night after close, the staff came up and said “Hey Mike, make sure you hit that ‘Kerr’ extra hard next week!”

Funny thing was, nobody in the crowd confronted me about it and I was totally clueless until afterwards. Some people asked the the bouncers what was up, but they said “no, no, he’s cool.” Thank god.

Jeez, laughed my ass off reading this. But a nice way how the crowd (and the management) handled it. Faith in humanity restored (to quote the Chive 😉 )

Phil Morse, post: 17613, member: 2 wrote: Spare a thought for the thousands of man hours that developers put into bringing these complex products to market. They’ll be reading this as horrified as you over the issues you’ve had.

I am sure you are right with some developers, but especially when it comes to software, there are so many programmes which run as expected (and sold!) just after the second bugfix, which ins intolerable in my opinion.
But of course, not every manufacturer/developer is the same, and there are humble exceptions 😉

Reminds me of my endeavours with the fresh released, directly bought VCI-400…

It sucks so fuggin much that gear producers use users as betatesters and delay them again and again because they’re not really interested in fixing the bull$hit they have thrown out…

Well, I give a damn if people start pointing fingers at me saying I was a douchebag, but in my (!) opinion all this babble about vinyl and cdjs and the widening and evolving controller market is the same debate as back the day when the first digital cameras appeared.

I still hear the “oh my god”s we will lose the feeling and you gotta’ stay true and digital is for beginners and so on…
Look where we are today: NO big camera brand (Nikon, Canon…) is producing a variety of analogue cameras, rather one or two models at best.

Same with vinyl and cdjs, they will soon be seen as dinosaurs and slowly die out.
But that’s my opinion, and I’m sure you can accept that 😉

The general answer, concerning every aspect of working with computers, is:

Put the files you want to work with onto an internal drive, no matter graphics file, music or whatever, and no matter whether PC or MAC, Desktop or Laptop. Because every workstep will be worked back and forth between your internal HDD to RAM to external HDD, back to RAM back t oyour program or interface, you will experience serious lacks once your RAM runs “full”. This should, nowadays, be no problem anymore, but especially loading times go through the roof when opened from an external drive in comparison to being opened from the internal, very closely locked with the OS – drive;
which, in fact, is what you do when putting a track into your software’s deck.

Store the files on your internal, and open them from there.
Best solution, though not capable on notebooks, would be to have two HDDs – one for the OS itself, second for the program and all your files. If you’re lacking space on the internal HDD, maybe clear as much space as you need for that special venue, and swap tunes before every gig, although this would shurely pull some organizing effort.

DJ Hessler, post: 16892, member: 537 wrote: …the other way around (running Mac osx in PCs) is as far as I know impossible??

Yep, at least from a software point of view. In the creative branch there’s been always harsh discussions whether to use MAC or Win, but having tried both (my university has, unfortunately as I will explain, to MAC two terms ago), using two Win7 PCs at home and iMacs at university, in my opinion MAC has no edge on Win7, since it is faster, more comfortable in many aspects and (which used to be THE kill-argument pro MAC) is MORE reliable than MAC. AND, pain, easier to set up, especially when it comes to network sharing disk space and programs.

Ouch. Hear me, Jobsie? You didn’t do yer homework 😉 Especially when used with sometimes critical software like CAD/3D (which of course, most DJs won’t 😉 ).

But graphics designers will defend their MACs down to the knife, so, as a conclusion – try which suits you best.