Ok let me say what needs to be said so we can move on to talking about the actual thing.
Turntable-as-instrument is bullcrap. So now they are making a fake turntable when the original thing is fake? The whole turntable thing is 99% form and 1% function anyway. The culture of it is about as valid as a superstar cocktail juggler (wait for that video game perhiperal). The headphone/neck crick and the frantic knob twiddling and record manipulating with the deadly serious facial expression is done in such a way as to imply as much difficulty as possible. It's one of the most shallow fashions (and that's what it is, a fashion not an activity) to emerge in recent decades. As you can see I hate that crap, now they are going to sell a 200$ perhiperal to make it look like your trying to make it look like you are doing something significant? How much more lame are video games going to get.
wow . . . please demonstrate your ignorance and stupidity some more. . .
djing is hard - - I would know. I am one.
It is not about knob twisting.
It is about blending tracks and beat matching songs *by ear* . . try this sometime . . this is something that takes years to learn. . . being able to hear the bpm of different tracks and being able to tell when they are perfectly in line is difficult . . .
scratching is an even more difficult task. . . youtube a qbert skratch video sometime . . . and try to replicate even a fraction of what they do . .
this is an artform that takes years to learn how to do. . . sorry buddy but you obviously know nothing about djing.
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess you've never heard the old adage, "Don't knock it till you try it."
Is this idea new? No. Is it a gimic? Yep. Is this going to sell? Or course. Those of us that like this music, and other genres, that can't get their hands on or afford a KORG, Numark, etc., will gladly pay for this.
I was gonna do a reasonable argument and try to make you see the light, but the guys above me have done a fine job with reason. So I give you one word:
You are lame and obviously ill-informed. Have you ever touched a turntable? Did you suck? Perhaps that's why you can't appreciate it as art. When you learn how to use a turntable to create sounds of your own, you can comment without sounding like an idiot. You just a much, and logically more options for creating music with turntables than with any other instrument I've ever used. You are using prerecorded sounds that you have the ultimate ability to effect in terms of pitch, volume, speed, etc. Why would that not be a legitimate art form? I think you clearly don't understand turntablism, or hip-hop. People said the same thing about rock n' roll and jazz. You should be ashamed. Study up first, dummy.
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Ok let me say what needs to be said so we can move on to talking about the actual thing.
Turntable-as-instrument is bullcrap. So now they are making a fake turntable when the original thing is fake?
The whole turntable thing is 99% form and 1% function anyway. The culture of it is about as valid as a superstar cocktail juggler (wait for that video game perhiperal). The headphone/neck crick and the frantic knob twiddling and record manipulating with the deadly serious facial expression is done in such a way as to imply as much difficulty as possible. It's one of the most shallow fashions (and that's what it is, a fashion not an activity) to emerge in recent decades.
As you can see I hate that crap, now they are going to sell a 200$ perhiperal to make it look like your trying to make it look like you are doing something significant? How much more lame are video games going to get.
wow . . . please demonstrate your ignorance and stupidity some more. . .
djing is hard - - I would know. I am one.
It is not about knob twisting.
It is about blending tracks and beat matching songs *by ear* . . try this sometime . . this is something that takes years to learn. . . being able to hear the bpm of different tracks and being able to tell when they are perfectly in line is difficult . . .
scratching is an even more difficult task. . . youtube a qbert skratch video sometime . . . and try to replicate even a fraction of what they do . .
this is an artform that takes years to learn how to do. . . sorry buddy but you obviously know nothing about djing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6iGexp7Pn8
just watch that video and tell me how little skill is involved.
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess you've never heard the old adage, "Don't knock it till you try it."
Is this idea new? No. Is it a gimic? Yep. Is this going to sell? Or course. Those of us that like this music, and other genres, that can't get their hands on or afford a KORG, Numark, etc., will gladly pay for this.
Have you been attacked by a turntable recently? i fell your pain :(
*feel My mistake buddy :)
I was gonna do a reasonable argument and try to make you see the light, but the guys above me have done a fine job with reason. So I give you one word:
Die
:)
You are lame and obviously ill-informed. Have you ever touched a turntable? Did you suck? Perhaps that's why you can't appreciate it as art. When you learn how to use a turntable to create sounds of your own, you can comment without sounding like an idiot. You just a much, and logically more options for creating music with turntables than with any other instrument I've ever used. You are using prerecorded sounds that you have the ultimate ability to effect in terms of pitch, volume, speed, etc. Why would that not be a legitimate art form? I think you clearly don't understand turntablism, or hip-hop. People said the same thing about rock n' roll and jazz. You should be ashamed. Study up first, dummy.