I've just released simple virtual turntable software named "Scratch Now" for Mac.
Scratch Now installs virtual loopback device, and allows you to scratch any sound from Youtube, Music App, Spotify and more!

Here is demo and download link.

Thats all.

Enjoy!

Passive or active?

I don't quite get Djing yet other than putting on a record/cd/etc to let everyone else listen to tracks. Is there more to it though? What would be a good starting point? Any videos to watch? I'd prefer something cheap where I could actually get a feel of what it's all about? Below is a $70 Vestax turntable, not sure if that's a good starting point? I'd prefer to spin CDs than LPs though. This Vestax product is USB so does that mean I could only play stuff on my laptop and not CDs? I won't be DJing hip hop so I'm not doing all that scratching. I'm interested in EDM.

http://www.guitarcenter.com/Vestax-S...?source=4XBACR

are the Numark IDJ series a good start? I see a few used ones that start at $40.

To get to the bottom of this. What is a DJ turntable? My take on it is that since it has 2 slots for a record/CD to play on, that means I can play simultaneously without having to take out to put another one on, etc. My other take on what a turntable is, is that you can pull the disk out faster than a standard CD player so you can replace a disk while the other is playing. Am I getting this right?

I haven't adjusted yet to DJ culture because I came from a rock background. So when someone says DJ ___ is playing at such club, my first thought is "playing" what, you mean "spinning" or playing other people's tunes, via disk? In rock, playing means you are actually playing real instruments to reproduce what was a recorded song. DJing means you are playing a pre-recorded song. Is this about accurate?

But I am showing interest in DJing, I just don't want to spend too much and end up getting bored with it.

Thanks in advance for any help.

The story has some really interesting tidbits about SFX entertainment in general.

Copied the Album Covers and printed them onto thick CD Labels ...

Well --- Im Trying to rip the tunes off of these Custom made CDs on my modern lap-top

and am encountering all kinds of problems --- over 80 percent will not "Rip" ---

Is there a relatively inexpensive "peripheral" CD drive you can suggest that will successfully help me retrieve my precious data?

thanks!

SoundCloud is up for sale to prospective buyers with a billion dollar price tag, a source tells Billboard. The potential sale comes a month after the streaming service raised $100 million in a funding round led by a $70 million investment from Twitter, and four months after the launch of its new paid subscription service, SoundCloud Go. The story was first reported by Bloomberg. It's been a big year for the German company -- in addition to its foray into the paid streaming market, it finally signed a deal with major label holdout Sony Music Entertainment, the final piece in its catalog puzzle following prior agreements with Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and Merlin. That paved the way for Go's rollout, which will help legitimize the service moving forward for its 175 million users, many of which come from the dance music and DJ communities. Go should help SoundCloud financially, provided it can actually convert its freemium users into paid subscribers. Earlier this year, the company released its financials from 2014 which showed a service growing rapidly and burning through piles of cash, spending $63.8 million to generate $19.7 million in revenue. Since then, SoundCloud raised $77 million in funding in 2015, as well as the $100 million funding round in June which valued the company at $700 million, according to Bloomberg.

However, one source doubts that SoundCloud will be able to find a buyer at its $1 billion asking price, or whether the company would actually go through with a sale at all, suggesting that the $1 billion number is more about gauging the market's valuation of the company rather than any concrete plans. One concern from investors is the subscription service's conversion rate, which an insider estimates has only brought subscribers in the "tens of thousands" over its first four months; by comparison, Spotify has said its conversion rate hovers between 25-30 percent. Six months after their respective launches, Apple Music and Tidal had attracted 10 million and one million subscribers (though Tidal started with around 500,000 at the time of its March 2015 U.S. re-launch.) Reps for SoundCloud declined to comment.

Also - if you dj, howd you learn?

:poke:

http://www.harmonycentral.com/roland-live-stream--the-future-redefined

"Effective May 13, Beatport will be shutting down its music and video streaming platforms, its mobile apps, its Beatport News section and its Events vertical. The site will return its focus to the Beatport store. In the meantime, Beatport’s parent company SFX Entertainment has suspended the auction of Beatport, though the company will “continue considering offers"

Even if you can’t make it to the Nikki Beach Club on 16^th March for 28-year old Dutch superstar DJ Hardwell's performance at Miami Music Week, you'll be able to experience it all in a virtual reality and 360-video livestream that immerses you in the crowd. Chances are you've never experienced Hardwell like this. Actually, we know you haven't, because it's the first EDM event to be streamed in this way. And it's also the first livestream event available on all VR headsets, iOS, Android, Apple TV and the web.

Electronic Dance Music has grown faster than any other genre in the world of streaming, industry figures show.According to the Official Charts Company and BPI (the UK recorded music industry trade association), audio streams are double what they were last year. It is thought acts like Disclosure and Years & Years along with heritage artists like The Prodigy and The Chemical Brothers are responsible for the trend. As well as sales, the survey shows general habits of dance fans. The research from January to October 2015 shows that UK acts now account for half of all dance music (albums, singles and streams) consumed in the UK for those 10 months. Radio 1 has just added some new names to its Residency dance music programmes such as producers Steve Angello, Oliver Heldens, Nina Kraviz, Dub Phizix & Strategy and Kode9 that are joining the team. The BPI says that house and garage music combined accounted for almost half (48%) of digital and physical singles sold in the first 10 months of 2015.

Mainstream dance music accounted for 38% of sales, drum & bass 5.7%, electronica 3.2%, rave/hard dance 2% and trance 1.5%. It is thought the sales of house music are reinforced by the recent chart success of David Zowie, Karen Harding and Philip George, who have all had hits this year. Streaming dance music is confirmed by new survey data from AudienceNet, which shows that seven in 10 fans are using Spotify, Deezer and Google Play to discover tracks. Major Lazer's Lean On has just been named the most streamed track of all time on Spotify, while one of the electronic group's founding members, Diplo, has just been announced as the most Shazamed artist of 2015.

Cuba might not exactly be a “creative entrepreneur” but that hasn’t stopped some ambitious Cubans from launching a campaign aimed at bringing an EDM festival to Cuba in 2016. Describing itself a “non-profit festival connecting Afro-Cuban Folkloric music with the pioneers of the International Electronic music community”, the MANANA Festival has raised almost £13,000 on Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter out of its £40,000 goal so far. Scheduled to take place May 4-6, 2016 provided it raises enough capital, the festival itself has already been approved by the Cuban government and a select few artists from both Cuba and abroad have already signed on to the project. In addition to festival usuals, like music of course, MANANA will also be working with artists and technology partners to deliver a program of music workshops, seminars and talks that will run over the three days. International tickets will also be capped at 500 so if you’re down for the cause and ready for a quick trip to the Caribbean you better grab those as soon as you can.

It’s not often that an EDM artist is setting new trends when it comes to innovative marketing for major music releases, but then again, it isn’t often that Avicii releases an album. His sophomore effort got an upgrade with the reveal of an intricately designed, Instagram-fueled marketing campaign. Holding true to the LP’s name ‘Stories’, the Swede and his team have assembled a click-through interactive game via Instagram. It begins as such: ‘’After enslaving the human race Dr. Hush has banned all music and brainwashed the population into mindless zombies. You are Avicii and your mission is to infiltrate Dr. Hush’s broadcasting station, and play the last remaining song in the world to awaken the people…”

Follow this link if you are interested in trying it out: https://instagram.com/_lets_do_this_now/

Pioneer DJ has released it’s Rekordbox DJ software offering to the general public as an add-on Plus Pack to the company's Rekordbox 4.0 DJ library software that transforms it into a full-on DJ app, enabling one to perform from their laptop, also compatible with some of the current DDJ controller line as well as its media players. This is Pioneer’s first entry into the software market dominated by Traktor, Serato DJ and Virtual DJ, gunning for an all-inclusive experience that ties in its hardware with its very own software thus forming an all-in ecosystem for DJs: Making it possible to perform with the same Rekordbox library on your DDJ controller with a laptop as with CDJs and a thumb drive. The DJ user also has the option of taking one’s laptop to the club, plugging in those CDJs, and performing with Rekordbox DJ – with no DVS box necessary. The Software is available for US$129 or US$9.90/month and comes with a free 30-day trial.

Also, note that Pioneer has noticed several issues running their products under OS X El Capitan. Check the pioneerdj.com web site for details. Here's a list of the affected products.

DJM-S9, DJM-2000NXS, DJM-2000, DJM-900NXS, DJM-900SRT, DJM-850, DJM-750, DJM-T1, DJM-5000

DDJ-RZ, DDJ-SZ

XDJ-AERO, XDJ-RX, MEP-7000

RMX-500

From the article by Cody Smith: Split into various categories, notably between DJ awards and special awards such as technical/event awards, Hardwell came out on top with two awards, winning for the Electro/Progressive House and International DJ categories. Other big awards were given to Disclosure for the Electronica category, Armin van Buuren for the trance category, and Carl Cox for the techno category. In the miscellaneous awards, South Africa won the “Dance Nation of the Year” award, also where “Breakthrough” award winner Black Coffee hails from, and Pioneer’s free DJ software Rekordbox won the “Cutting Edge” award.

Would like to seek opinion on this one, i have been using sub 18d.

Im looking in to sub 18H kindly advise which one is more powerful ? which one has got a better out put / throw ?

if i use them together on the same mono out put will one sound higher than the other ???

Despite not being here much, my dissertation involves thorough research into musical formulas. Would any for-hire DJs be willing to share some information regarding which tracks are the most universal dance-floor fillers?

i.e. what tracks seem to get the broadest demographic on the dance-floor?

Thank you so much,

Tom

If you've got an hour and need some music to fill the time got check it out!

Are those DJ shows with "spectacular" light shows responsible for their stage light shows are is it up to the venue? Usually these lights play along simultaneously to the sound of the music. Are these lighting products sold "in a box" or are they custom built to make each DJs original with their light shows or everything is standard? Maybe I should ask this second question on the "Live Performance" section?

I've found a very nice project coming from France : Mixage Fou. It is about to remix a given sound bank and create 80 sec out of it.

There are nice prizes also...

I participate myself and hope to finish before the deadline : december 28th

I am happy to share things I like

http://www.mixagefou.com

The thing that stops me, though, is that I have a nice collection of vinyl (IMO).  Maybe 100 or so albums.  I collected some of what were the greatest trance and progressive trance tracks from the 1999-2001 era, and then there's also some vintage classic rock (Rolling Stones, Doors, etc.) and some other miscellaneous stuff.  I don't see myself every spinning, but I do think I still want access to this music. 

One thought I had was to keep one turntable.  But I think these turntables would be easier to sell as a pair, and I could then perhaps buy a relatively cheaper but still good record player.

Another thought I had was to figure out how to rip / convert my records to digital files on my computer, and then I could sell both turntables and the records, too.  I understand there are programs / plugins that would allow me to sample these songs from digital recordings similar to having them on a record player, perhaps even with virtual scratching, if I wanted to get into sampling any of the music in my own original works.  It's not something I've done yet, but I could see it happening some day.

So, I guess the question is, has anyone else converted a record collection to a virtual collection / digital music files, and have any advice on the pros/cons of that?

Ken

https://soundcloud.com/kenmyers-1

i would like to connect the Boss DD7 Digital Delay or the Behringer DD400 Delay Pedal to my mixer.

Unfortunally my mixer doesnt have send/return holes. Also, as i saw from many pics, the pedals have different holes for cables and not RCA.

Also, i was wondering if is possible to use cable converters in order to connect everything.

My mixer`s interface is this: http://www.123dj.com/mixers/pioneer/djmt1back.jpg

thank you very much for helping

I've just been given this awesome first print vinyl from Vanilla Ace, and it sounds sick and am keen to use it in my sets,

however on the first track the needle keeps jumping grooves making that track unplayable,

any advice on what I can do?

Any thoughts

Thanks

First post here (DJ forums). I'm a sound tech with lots of live audio experience, but I want to put my system to work and try to make some money. I'm thinking about becoming a local, portable dj for weddings, corporate events and parties.

I'm at a bit of a loss as to where to start. I see dj schools listed online, and I've just started going to dj forums.

The weddings I've been to where they had a dj simply had a guy playing recorded music (requests), through a small system with some dance lights. Is this a place to start? I've watched some Youtube vid's showing the real DJ's in action - which looks fun and interesting. I'm just looking for some advise here.

I'm partial to using digital equipment, but I see many are using the dual analog decks. Is there a consensus?

i'd rather buy a bad ass to medium set up-- then have to replace it down the road ....need the funds to use on other music stuff ..im sure ya'll kno what i mean...

Hi all,

I need a low cost usb audio interface that will meet

My Needs:

1) Price - Low as possible

2) For Working with Native Instruments Traktor Pro and Kontakt/Massive at the same time

3) That could handle live DJ Sets(no latency etc.)

4) That has an instrument input for a guitar/mic - although maybe I can live without this feature if it will make the price much higher.

My System

Lenovo G570 4334

Edirol PCR-300 Midi Controller

Options

I found this Numark product: DJ|iO" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.numark.com/product/djio]DJ|iO USB DJ Audio Interface | Numark - Cutting-edge professional DJ equipment

I think I can get it for 50-70$ on ebay. that's the product that fits my needs best from what I've found so far but maybe you guys have a better option to suggest

I was searching to buy some new DJ Gear at low price and I found that site : youdeal.com where stuff is sold as an auction.

Has any of you used it and if yes how was it? Do you have any other sites I might use?

Thanx!

Thanks for your input in advance

We would love to get your feedback on a new RGB lighting product we are developing that can be controlled by an IOS and Android device, it synchronizes with music and integrates with apps. It is called LightServer and also works with laptops and other DJ gear via audio input.

Check out the demo video to see it in action.

Please let us know what you think here - http://bit.ly/1jZgpyF  

We have many ideas on how the make LightServer even better, including many more music synchronization effects and all sorts of fun apps. But we really want to hear from you DJs and musicians, to find out what would be useful to you and what is important

Thanks, 

Glenn and the LightServer Team.

lightserver@icloud.com

Youtube link, incase Vimeo does not work - 

I recently borrowed with a friends Native Instruments S2 and really enjoyed playing around with it. I never

DJ'd before and I don't wanna do it on a serious level, I just want something to play around with and maybe

play on private partys or for friends. What I really enjoyed was the simplicity of the S2. I figured out most of 

the basic stuff within 15min. Only thing thats a little bummer for me is the size. So i found out about the X1 

and Z1 and to me it seems like ( correct me if i'm wrong please ) it's basically the same as the S2 with 

maybe less features ( like these "turntable-like scratch stuff ). I will mostly play with my macbook but 

with my iPad too. Would the X1/Z1 combination (although it's not really cheaper) be a good alternative

for someone like me? Or is there maybe even something else that i don't know about? Like I said, i just

want to do it for fun. 

Check out "Horror, Baby" - a scary Halloween video CHAUVET DJ created to show what you can do with their gear during Halloween! I was looking for tips and ideas and this helped immensely - plus it was entertaining to watch.

Watch "Horror, Baby"

Watch the making of "Horror, Baby" to see how you can duplicate the look:

I'm searching for an audio interface for both recording and live play. I like the look of the one below, where main feature for live play is obliviously virtual output/cue channels (a feature of any USB audio interface, of course). What I would really like is for two computers to be able to use the USB-in feature (both devices making use of different virtual outputs from the same interface). Is this possible? Is there hardware that supports multiple USB inputs? Your help is appreciated.

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/pro-audio/akai-professional-eie-i-o-audio-midi-interface-with-usb-hub?source=3WWRWXGP&gclid=CPHLmM_Fj7oCFQeg4AodCQoA_A&kwid=productads-plaid^43618055924-sku^H72088000000000@ADL4MF-adType^PLA-device^c-adid^30423768747