on 11/29/00 5:08 PM, Nuutti-Iivari Meriläinen at gordon@populo.vip.fi wrote:
quoted 5 lines Maybe I'm romanticising and waxing a bit poetic here, but that's how I> Maybe I'm romanticising and waxing a bit poetic here, but that's how I
> feel about it. I will not directly discard the idea of a better way of
> mixing music, but I don't see a directly possible vinyl-free future for us
> DJs in the digital world. Can someone else can come up with more possible
> scenarios?
Yes you are waxing very poetic but most of it is true. You can't touch a CD
while it is playing, flat out, straight up. If you touch a CD while it is
playing, it will not work properly and the results will not be musical.
You can touch a record while it is playing. It will still work properly, but
the playback speed will change. The results are as musical as the track you
are playing...
So in the end, CD mixing = good for applications where you don't have to
touch the disc for a musical effect, i.e. techno, trance, house. Just do a
digital beatmatch and go on your merry way.
Vinyl = good for applications where you have to touch the disc for a musical
effect, i.e. hip-hop, jungle.
-l[e^2]
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