Beat juggling and scratching are often times forms of music that cannot be properly enjoyed by the general public. Often times it sounds like musical gibberish but you just have to realize what the DJ is doing.
@PsychOfMSE - it doesn't take a musical expert to tell that this DJ in the video has either horrible timing, is being defeated by poor technology (early vinyl contol systems often resulted in shite juggling like in the video, for example), or both.
@ThreeDee912 - as many vendors of DJ-related products have learned, you can't sell a product by demoing it with such a poor performance. None of this "He's just showing off the touch technology" crap, please. To show off the technology, HE SHOULD BE JUGGLING EXTREMELY WELL WITH IT. To do otherwise is to simply _failing_ to be "showing off the touch technology".
@Ant - As I said to PsychOfMSE, either the DJ sucks and/or the technology does. As for whether or not this kind of technology would work right for scratching, I doubt "feel on the movement of the song" would be a problem. If the waveform is displayed and synced accurately with the playback (which you'll notice it isn't in the video, because the waveform is lagging behind his hand movements), you'd be able to cut very accurately. The larger problem would be that you'd be fighting the screen, in that you could either have high waveform accuracy but only showing a brief period of time (which would make it hard to do some things) or you could have low waveform accuracy but show a longer period of time (which would make it hard to do a different set of things). Waveform visualization is great as a DJ. I know, as I am one (are any of you other posters DJs? I somehow doubt it.) However, you'd be losing out on the directness of input by having positions within the track mapped directly to positions on the vinyl as you do with both real vinyl and vinyl control systems, and you'd be losing out on the ability to cover arbitrary ranges of time within the track with full accuracy simply by cueing arbitrary distances (and rotations relative to the label) that you have committed to memory.
@ Jeremy Grey, I know alot about Djing and beat juggling. You are all wrong because he was trying to "Beat Match" actually. Juggling is such a more difficult art form. Ever hear of Scratch Bastid? Beat Juggling champ? Good friend of mine. This is nice in the limited preview but with work could be a much better technology than most other E Music device's. A force feedback tactile function would make this nice. Until that day I 'spose. What was your Dj name? I'll go search the torrents for ya....
The quality of DJing does matter. If you're selling a project on the grounds that it is cool, at least find a DJ who can make it look and sound good. He couldn't even get the volume right on the scratching, which has been made several times easier thanks to the technology.
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this DJ sux~!!!!!
omg get him off the stage
Why would you say he sucks?
Beat juggling and scratching are often times forms of music that cannot be properly enjoyed by the general public. Often times it sounds like musical gibberish but you just have to realize what the DJ is doing.
He's just showing off the touch-panels, not actually trying to DJ-ing (I think). But still, those beats were obviously not synced very well.
Still a cool use for touch screens.
Next up: iPhone scratch panels?
the dj doesnt suck.your knowledge of beat juggling does though.
you can tell this wont work right for scratching though since you have no feel on the movement of the song.
I understand beat juggling and DJing, and that set sucks. I agree though that it is a demo and I hope he wasn't actually trying.
@PsychOfMSE - it doesn't take a musical expert to tell that this DJ in the video has either horrible timing, is being defeated by poor technology (early vinyl contol systems often resulted in shite juggling like in the video, for example), or both.
@ThreeDee912 - as many vendors of DJ-related products have learned, you can't sell a product by demoing it with such a poor performance. None of this "He's just showing off the touch technology" crap, please. To show off the technology, HE SHOULD BE JUGGLING EXTREMELY WELL WITH IT. To do otherwise is to simply _failing_ to be "showing off the touch technology".
@Ant - As I said to PsychOfMSE, either the DJ sucks and/or the technology does. As for whether or not this kind of technology would work right for scratching, I doubt "feel on the movement of the song" would be a problem. If the waveform is displayed and synced accurately with the playback (which you'll notice it isn't in the video, because the waveform is lagging behind his hand movements), you'd be able to cut very accurately. The larger problem would be that you'd be fighting the screen, in that you could either have high waveform accuracy but only showing a brief period of time (which would make it hard to do some things) or you could have low waveform accuracy but show a longer period of time (which would make it hard to do a different set of things). Waveform visualization is great as a DJ. I know, as I am one (are any of you other posters DJs? I somehow doubt it.) However, you'd be losing out on the directness of input by having positions within the track mapped directly to positions on the vinyl as you do with both real vinyl and vinyl control systems, and you'd be losing out on the ability to cover arbitrary ranges of time within the track with full accuracy simply by cueing arbitrary distances (and rotations relative to the label) that you have committed to memory.
are u serious? i certainly hope he's not trying to make a beat because some of u have no sense of rhythm.
he's off beat and i'll give him the benefit of the doubt that he's simply demo'ing the overpriced touch panels.
The nintendo DS demo was FAR more impressive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@ Jeremy Grey, I know alot about Djing and beat juggling. You are all wrong because he was trying to "Beat Match" actually. Juggling is such a more difficult art form. Ever hear of Scratch Bastid? Beat Juggling champ? Good friend of mine. This is nice in the limited preview but with work could be a much better technology than most other E Music device's. A force feedback tactile function would make this nice. Until that day I 'spose.
What was your Dj name? I'll go search the torrents for ya....
The quality of DJing does matter. If you're selling a project on the grounds that it is cool, at least find a DJ who can make it look and sound good. He couldn't even get the volume right on the scratching, which has been made several times easier thanks to the technology.