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Originally Posted by scuba steve
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It used to be about turntable and spinning......CD transports made the process even easier and controllers even more so.
I'm not knocking the guys that are very creative and truly excel, in turntables heyday, they likely would have excelled at those too.
But it really isn't is hard as it used to be.
I dj'd using 1210's and there is a real learning curve from simple beat matching to scratching and other creative tricks, it took me two years at least to learn the different scratches.
Now I use an Akai APC, mpk88 and various vsts. Its night and day how easy it is to crank out a sample remix. With the samples in place.....5 mins and I could have something pretty reasonable that you wouldn't have heard before. A DJ set can be original in terms of arrangement and beat matched flawlessly in no time at all.
I miss the days when a DJ might have a beat matching or mix catastrophe in their booths lol