quoted 3 lines i think maybe most djs just don't have the time in between mixes to think> i think maybe most djs just don't have the time in between mixes to think
> about using samples and/or effects but i think with jon's "system" it
> would make it rather more possible to do so..
That's actually my system, not Jon's. A friend of mine and I came up
with this idea in 1988. At th time, we estimated the cost of such a beast
and came up with a figure that was in the tens of thousands of dollars, given
the price of RAM, DSP chips and hard drives at the time. The price would be a
bit lower nowadays.
Anyway, the one thing that we intentionally omitted from our design was the
ability to take a musical phrase and figure out where the beginning and end of
the phrase is. This is *really* difficult from a software point of view. So
the DJ would have to load musical chunks onto the hard drive and manually locate
where the phrase's start-point and end-point are. This could be done before
the actual performance, or the more adventurous DJ could do this on the fly
during a performance.