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I strongly recommend a mix of both . Every group of dancers is different, so this isn't an absolute rule, but most dancers prefer a mixture of familiar favorites and new music. Everyone has their favorite tunes that make them happy.
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Advanced Vinyl Handling, DJ Basics
S lipmats, usually made from felt, are used instead of those thick rubber slabs most turntables have. They allow the turntable to keep on turning while you hold the record. J ump Starting means you start a record exactly at a beat, exactly WHEN you want to. (Also referred to as cue starting .)When you master this trick you can -at least for a moment- have 2 records run in phase . First you need to find the first beat of the record.I am going to turn 30 in a few weeks, which means these ears have had nearly 14 years of DJing. Hindsight is 20/20, and I can tell you it sure would have been helpful to know basic DJ etiquette from the beginning. Many a gig would have been significantly smoother if someone had taken the time to share a few universal principles of dealing with others. So, to help you avoid the same mistakes, let’s go over the basics of dealing with other DJs, patrons and club owners from the perspective of the digital DJ. This is the area where most DJs get themselves into trouble. The common newcomer mistake is to view the other DJs as competition and not opportunities for more gigs.
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Getting Started 1: Audio Interface Learn how to set up an external audio interface with Ableton Live 8. Getting Started 2: Recording Audio
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Do you miss the old days when a synth was not plug n play, but a challange in routing? Where you had to tune a synth before you could play it and where spring reverbs and filters would go nuts? With Cynthia you can do all that crazy stuff you cant do with a modern synth. Cynthia is monophonic VSTi, very Old School, but will still be able to keep in tune throughout the song, patches can be stored and it is of course fully MIDI controllable. Cynthia is free to use and will send you 30 years back in time to the dawn of modular synthesis…