umm, why has nobody mentioned cd decks? theres even ones that'll take a usb stick.

theres all the music in the world on the web, why limit yourself to vinyl?

vinyl sounds nicer, but a wav or aiff sounds just as loud and clear.

are dubstep dj's anti digital like their dnb brothers?

you could try thinking that the tonal center of your track could be panned to the middle, and the melody that falls or rises from that root be panned accordingly. left center right 180 000 180 C1 C2 C3 G1 G2 visualise a set of wind chimes and think how the pitch rises (or falls) from left to right. ...

Ok I'm new to all this so I could be hugely wrong but I think something's missing from your (otherwise bloody fantastic) explanation of the Minor Scales up there... You list it as "T, S, T, T, S, T, S" but the diagram doesn't follow, because the jump from Ab to B is T+S, not T as you list...

switched from pc to mac 5 yrs back when i started making music. never used fruity loops cos i couldn't get a mac version. same for acid. avoided cubase because of logics dominance of os x. never liked logic. yeah its cool for some of you, but not me. so, ableton was my only friend. i'ts done everyth...

well, if we're asking for something we'd find useful.

i'd really like itunes to have the waveform display, with simple editing. cut copy paste normalize.

that would be bliss

send midi signals out to external hardware, audio signals to external fx, route that shit back in. record it to a new clip while freaking the knobs. go mad with mutes while resampling, throw some crazy automation envelopes that can control whatever you desire at whatever you desire. live is limited ...