Ronnie EmJay

Here’s one .. I usually play electronic music these days: deep, tech, techno… but I miss those days when Hip Hop was made like this… with a Barry White sample to boot 🙂

• This reply was modified 8 years, 9 months ago by Ronnie EmJay.

I meant if we can eventually see stems displays in Traktor on the laptop screen…maybe I should try it o my Windows setup (where I can put the latest version of Traktor) as perhaps the separate stems displays may not be as missed as I currently think – after all, know your music.
I really don’t want extra screens. I’m happy using a K2 and plugging in CDJs via USB 🙂

I’d be surprised if there is anything to do this, just for copyright reasons alone.
That and the possible instability of something reliant on an internet connection…

Curious to see if you find anything though!

This is only a guess.. but you’d have to sell the original vinyl and CDs along with the hard drive. Selling them separately would be seen as illegal as you could just keep making new hard drives and re-selling them.

There’s actually some (mostly record labels and their lawyers) that say it’s illegal to digitize your collection and that you should buy the song again as an audio file…

Dankjewel DJ Vintage!
I don’t DJ for free and these movie fans will go for the free gigs just to look cool and be able to say they are a DJ and maybe try it just once. The ones who have more success will be those that bring a lot of people – that’s what most venues care about anyway these days… So many times, venue managers/owners don’t even listen to DJ mixes before hiring them…

Hope they went with mixvibes…

Plug in the CDJs as USB Midi control devices on Traktor to control Decks A & B (if you control C & D).
You will have to load his music on your computer and he will be able to use the CDJs pretty much as if he had plugged in USB sticks/CDs (selecting songs, cueing up, changing pitch, etc), except now you can sync all 4 decks. If he doesn’t want to temporarily copy his music to your hard drive, you can also plug in a USB stick that he can remove after finishing.

I’m not sure about aggregate sound cards so I’d imagine the easiest way is just to have all 4 decks (yours and his) going to 4 channels on the main mixer, and EQing from there. With this method, you’ll have to beatgrid his songs in Traktor and set up cue points, if he uses any. I’ve never tried importing beatgrids/cue points from Rekordbox’d songs.

Actually I’ve never tried this, we always had to manually beatmatch from DJ to DJ.

If this isn’t what you want.. you can try to use USB sticks in 2 more CDJs (for you), for a total of 4 CDJs and manually beatmatch. Personally trying to keep 4 decks sync’d up by beatmatching by ear is not my idea of fun…
For sync get the Nexus range and you can probably sync all 4 of the CDJs.

Failing that… if anyone knows if CDJs can be sync’d up to midi clocks, maybe they can help.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 9 months ago by Ronnie EmJay.

I feel that until they bring stems showing on your computer screen it won’t have a big uptake. Native Instruments proprietary equipment to show these are just too bulky and expensive for me and I’m sure many others.

Perhaps it will be possible to use in Ableton easily in a similar (but different) way.