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quoted 4 lines With better technology, this might not need be the case. I'm just

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > With better technology, this might not need be the case. I'm just > saying that this time could be spent on better things like putting > more planning into the layout of your music.

I'll have to disagree with your overall point. I'll agree with "you must still spend SOME amout of time," but this applies to both turntables AND CD mixers. No technology anytime soon will ever beat the ability to slap on a record, see where you want to start (grooves have shades), move the needle, find the beat and match it. Only on a Stanton can you slap on a CD; you can not see starting places and breaks on a CD; cueing on a CD player is painstakingly slow: first find the track you want to play, then find the place you want to start matching takes far longer than doing this with vinyl (unless you have the CD mixer/player preprogrammed! But where does preprogramming leave room for innovation and spur of the moment song playing...what about REQUESTS? where do you fit THOSE in?); once you found the first beat or starting place, you must cue it on the instant you want it to start, and you can't slide back-n-forth on a beat like you do on a record -- instead you have to play the CD till you hear the start-point, then reverse a bit, but sometimes you lose track of where the start-point comes in ("this bar, or the next?") then you PASS IT UP AGAIN and have to reverse AGAIN. I have never used a CD mixer and am just guessing with theory, so correct me if I'm wrong. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<< As far as CD mixing goes, you're way off on that. It's much easier than you think, and much easier to cue than vinyl (imo). You'll notice I said above that "with better technology, this might not need be the case". I meant that we don't have technology right now that will automatically match beats for you, but in the near future, we probably will. Then you could simply punch on your console: disk 12, track 3, measure 16, beat 1, start mixing in measure 128 of currently playing song, and the device would match the beats for you, perfectly, so you just concentrate on adjusting the cross-fader (and possible eqs as well) to pull off the best possible mix. Call me crazy if you want to, but one guy on the list was talking about how he made a device that listened to 2 turntables, and if the beat on one was faster than the other, it adjusted the pitch controls to bring them in sync. This can't be too far in the future.