Originally Posted by
spiz
A venue is not going to put a 'house' computer for controllerists to use, but house CDJ's or turntables actually make sense.
I respectfully disagree. Right now it wouldn't make sense to put in a house PC because people prefer to have their collection set up the way they like and they trust their own machine, and there's every chance a house PC would end up full of crap and run slow after no time at all. BUT, if there were some kind of DJ specific PC that ONLY ran a very solid piece of DJ software partnered with a hard wearing large touchscreen in the booth and integrated with CDJ style controllers and a mixer, it could become a new standard.
The beauty of mixing with just CDJs is that all you need to bring is a CD wallet/USB stick and a pair of headphones. If you could put all the features of DJ software into an installed system we could go back to that simplicity, and everyone could just analyse their tracks and add loops, cues and whatever with a free piece of software at home.
I know the image isn't great but this is what Andy C is using for his alive shows:
You can see a nice big screen with traktor running right above the mixer, but the actual computer is tucked away somewhere else. I know this is a live setup for a big name DJ, but I think this sort of thing could be the most logical next step for installs. The hardest part would be getting the software right.
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