Well, when you look at how expensive alptops are, it just depends upon
what you want to spend money on. Pioneer just came out with a cd deck that
also spins mp3 cdroms, so that could be a nice way to carry a lot of your
own tracks, but still mix them with a pro quality device that will
integrate with vinyl decks. I have cd decks from pioneer and a laptop, but
laptops can be a big pain, certainly since I use TerminatorX to scratch
mp3s I get some unusual effects, but I think my music is suffering cause
I'm putting in so much work learning to compile c++ programs under linux
and learning how to compile linux device drivers from scratch, that I'm
becoming a decent programmer, but a crappy musician! My Pioneer decks are
really cheap, just $300 eaqch now, and I use a $30 dj mixer, and I think I
get more mileage from that than from just trying to use the laptop by
itself, though now that I've been reading the source code I am getting
much more mileage out of terminatorX than I used to, btu another problem
with laptops is that they lack good low latency pro audio outputs, though
I hear that intel is going to make digital out the standard on their i810
based motherboards, so that could help laptops be a much better tool than
they often are now.
The bottom line is that a laptop is a general purpose device, while a
Pioneer deck is designed to withstand a lot of brutal treatment, its a
rocksolid proaudio device (heck, my $300 deck even has a digital out).
On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, jacob z. wrote:
quoted 32 lines so would you say that these cd mixers work better than the software mp3
> so would you say that these cd mixers work better than the software mp3
> mixers? i'm trying to decide which to put my chips on - i already have
> decks, but i want to incorporate my own music, plus most of the music i
> love now i don't own on vinyl yet, or will never own on vinyl because it's
> cd only or way out of print or something...
>
> thanks everyone for your suggestions, i will try virtual turntables and
> atomixmp3 and see if they work better for me than traktor.
>
> sorry for the off-topicness - but i want to spin idm, and all my
> vinyls are drum n' bass, so you see, for me it is very on topic... ;)
>
> j
>
> On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Kent williams wrote:
>
> > Actually the most useful thing you can get is a DJ friendly CD player setup.
> > The pioneers with the big wheels, and the top of the line Tascams are very
> > easy to learn to use. I have a very old Denon 2000 Mk 2 dual CD player and
> > once you get the basics down (finding the cue point) it almost seems easier
> > than beatmatching vinyl, because you only have to find a good cue point once.
> > Then beat matching comes down to starting at the cue point, judging whether
> > you're rushing or dragging, adjusting the pitch and recuing. Like 3
> > button pushes.
>
>
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