that's bollocks. file under "awweeeesum!!!!! (for 5 minutes)".

there's only 2 methods that have caught on enough so that you don't have to take the kit to the club with you: CDJs and turntables.

Then there's the final scratch / serrato guys who come along and annoy everybody by plugging in loads of cables to their laptop, which then crashes or runs out of battery (seen that happen to grooverider).

This system in comparison is expensive, heavy, fragile, large, and never gonna catch on. Added to that, a touchscreen is neither tactile enough nor fast enough. Perhaps the guy demonstrating this is just a shit DJ, but I expect he is being restricted by the performance of the system. Already there is a sense of "detachment" when playing CD instead of vinyl, and this system here just takes that detachment to a whole new level. In music, a delay of more than about 5ms can be noticeable and ruin your flow.

There is no benefit for the DJ here, just cool tech. (the large waveform display is not much more useful than the small display on serrato anyway, and anybody serious about scratching the record would use real vinyl or one of those technics CDJs with the real motor in it), and the audience can't even see your "kewl" screens, and they don't give a shit anyway...
most people don't even realise that DJs actually change the speed of records to blend them together. They don't realise, because they never tried to find out, because they don't give a shit.

So this looks to me like one of those "kewl" things that might eventually become the future, but only after several technological limitations are lifted. E.g if i could roll these two screens up and stick them in a small backpack, then we might start talking. but of course, if these things were light, they would move around the table when you touch them. Hmmmm.

But remember... most venues don't have space on their table for this shit, so you end up being restricted by a very basic and primitive limit. If you design your show around this technology you won't be able to play in a large percentage of venues. The main reason CDJs became standard was because they are small, cheap, and CDs are very very very universal. And CDs aren't heavy.

Sell this technosplurge to Bjork or something. Get Microsoft to buy you out because you are "youth" or whatever. Wait 20 years and you won't even need a screen, it will all be about waving your hands in the air or just "thinking" about the mix while wearing a braintooth headset. anyway by then live music will have killed the DJ. mark my words.

But lets face it, the music I just heard in this video was bullshit, not even in rhythm. Sort that out first, yeah? Music > tech.

^ I concur (with the last line).

Looks like the guy can be off-tempo in style, with the latest technology. And blog about it using the on-screen keyboard.

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