I'll start this off with a bit on my experience background. I started DJing on Virtual DJ and my laptop about 6 years ago, then i got a Numark Total Control a year after. I pretty much taught myself most of everything, the few decent youtube vids back then didnt do great job of teaching but did kind of guide me a bit. I quickly outgrew the NTC and Virtual DJ. There was ideas in my head of cool stuff i wanted to do but it wasn't possible at the time (i couldnt and still can't afford expensive DJ gear), until the S4 came along. I quickly saved up the cash to get an S4 and get to working with Traktor.
I was very disappointed when I got my s4 though,. The feature I was most excited for, the sample decks had alot of issues and really couldnt be used properly. I got stuck using the S4 really basic. Don't get me wrong, my mixes were coming along great and still are...but im not really satisfied. Now that the Sample decks have been given a bit of a facelift i wanted to give it another go. Im not very good at being creative with my sets it seems. I see all this talk about loops, patches, layers, fx and i just dont see how those are all DJ tools. How exactly would one go about doing this? do you like cut out parts of the tracks, stick em in the sample decks...but then how could you EQ each one of those samples and how exactly do you incorporate those into the mix?
My vision is to one day make use of all the decks. a and b having their respective tracks and then C and D having every sample slot being used. I really want to start DJing locally, but i really dont want to go around being "that dj" that only uses a controller with sync (which i do). Id like to be the dj that uses the software/hardware to its full potential. I want them to say "yeah, he has a controller but look at the way he breaks up those tracks, its crazy". Dunno if im making any type of sense here. I read up on using sample decks on the homepage, but thats not really what im looking for, thats pretty much for like some kind of routine...and again, how the heck would you EQ each slot? =\
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