SunkLo wrote:It's not really beatmatching if you're lining them up visually. By beatmatching, I mean getting them playing at the same bpm and the beats lined up. If all your tracks are the same bpm and you're relying on the grid on the screen to show you where to cue, it's not exactly beatmatching is it? Doesn't take a rocket scientist to hit play on the downbeat.
Again, I don't think you fully see how 2000nxs work. They will not beatmatch for you. You have to move the tempo slider yourself to get the songs to play at the same bpm. And then you have to hit it as you said on the downbeat, but you're not gonna get it perfectly, so you move the jogwheels to beatmatch. The tempo part is not done for you. Many of my dubstep tracks are 140, but I'd say about half of them are another bpm - 142, 143, 144, 138, 136, I even have some tracks at 146. 2000nxs does not change the song's bpm to automatically sync up with the other song (unless you use the sync button, of course).
SunkLo wrote:But like I said, I don't have a problem with using technology to your advantage as long as you use that platform to do something else. If 98% of your time is spent just standing behind the decks waiting, you're not really that entertaining of a DJ. Then again, fundamentally, DJing is just playing other people's tunes in sequence so it's silly to be so hipstery about it.
This tbh. I don't see DJing as a skillful thing to begin with. Imo DJing is just for ppl who can't produce or for producers who want to make some money because everyone just pirates their tunes anyway. DJing for me is about entertainment, not skill. If I wanted to impress people I would show them my productions. Not saying
my productions are impressive but if you wanna impress ppl when it comes to music, being a "DJ" is pretty phony tbh to begin with. All the girls may think you're so cool and so talented but you're just playing other ppls tunes as far as I'm concerned. Like, I really like and respect plenty of DJs such as Youngsta, but not because he "doesn't use the sync button" or some bullshit like that, but because he plays great tunes that no one else has and does really nice blends. I'm not saying he's not a talented person because he's a DJ, I just rate production talent waaay higher than DJ talent.
SunkLo wrote:Actually, I'm curious. If your CDJs have a sync button, why not use it? The audience probably won't be able to tell. If you don't care about making DJing into some difficult task for the purposes of showing off, you might as well go all the way. You're only one step away from full automation anyway.
Few reasons. One, when I learned CDJs, everyone told me "never use the sync button blah blah blah" like many of the ppl in this thread, so I just never did it. It's really not that helpful anyways. Changing the tempo yourself is fun and sometimes I like to play tunes at different tempos than their original tempo. Like sometimes with house I like to jam out and play everything really fast. Or if I'm making a tempo leap transition I like to meet somewhere in the middle. When I DJ on traktor I use sync cause that's how I always did it and that's what I'm comfortable with. I can DJ without sync of course and I often do if I'm doing something weird with the tempo, but if you're gonna fuck up the beatmatch 1-2% of the time, why not put sync on just as a safeguard to protect yourself for that 1-2% of transitions? Also if I use sync then I can focus more on doing blends or bringing in a 3rd track and shit, doing double drops, fx, etc.