2005 Till now - Got Influenced into electro / electroclash / electro house

damn... wish i had gotten into electronic music a few years earlier... by now shld be good producer/dj already

i think i've seen some of you guys before in other forums... just wanna mingle around in the deeeejaaaay thread

i'm into trance production... and i carry a laptop... i only got to know about the controller thru this thread and would like to know more about it. cuz i'm not ready for heavy investments... so, controller+laptop+traktor+mp3 is what i'm in now... the missing part is the controller... anyone care to share abit of their opinion here?

guys, now i'm doing some homework here. i wanna learn to mix musics. might get myself a gear to start with. i think i don't want to get vinyl TT as it's kinda pain in the ass i should say as you'll be gettin hard times to find those vinyls and it doesn't comes cheap. i donno. it's just my point of view.
instead i'm eyeing on some CDJ and HDDJ. as it's much more easier and cheaper to source tracks.
how's Gemini iCDJ http://store.topdjgear.com/geicipcocdpa.html and Numark iDJ2 http://store.topdjgear.com/nuidipmicows.html ? what you guys say? i'm thinkin of spendin about 3k. gonna save hard for this. =)

Its expensive and hard to get vinyls in Malaysia, sad but true eh..

True, but even a 320kbps quality tracks cant beat vinyls quality and you cant feel the vinlys if you are using cds.

Unless youre using serato then its diff case but for scratchers, I dont think they want to use serato to scratch eh? I have nothing against the technology, just that if we can get vinyls like in UK, then it would be nice..

hi, i kind of new in dj but i do noe how to mix, and i planning to buy for practice and my budget is 3k...so 1 of my producer fren offer me 1 apple laptop wit ableton live + dj mixing controller....or other choice is go for a brand new cdj set...so any idea or advice for me ??

get the cdjs or turntables+mixer setup....its much better as compared to software

Depends on the purpose really....
Again, as stated before, if you're a GIGGING DJ, where you go from one place to another to DJ, it's better if you have something portable..... and nothing is more portable then a Laptop with a mixer. You can hold your entire music collection, indexed and marked, ready to be played at the touch of a button. Yes, you sacrifice alot of versatility, but the portability makes up for it.

HOWEVER....

If you are a resident DJ at a club or something or you just want to practice at home, then yes...you'll need a decent CDJ or Turntable setup, to prepare you for a resident gig. Any club you go to, at least you're prepared to use CD-J or Turntables..... but of course, the cost of buying the albums should also be taken into consideration.

well if you want to stick to softwares instead of hardwares you can alwiz check out the thing called midi controllers
currently im still waiting for my behringer bcr2k which i will be using with ableton
m audio x session is also a good one if youre trying to play with softwares
it depends on the person itself tho
most ppl still prefer the analog which produce way better sound quality and some just simply like playing cds as for me myself i still prefer cds but working with softwares you can just do more things than just plain mixing

well anyone here actually do pc djing ?
im currently using the xponent but i dont pretty like torq
and im just wondering did anyone out here uses deckadance before ? i uses the demo version it seems to be pretty fine but never did hooked it up with it
anyone knows where i can get the free version for it ?
and can it run serato too ? or serato needs rane hardware to work ?