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Morior
Well then you don't understand the technology and are one of these people who years ago would deride electronic music by saying 'sure you just press a button and the machine writes the song for you.' There is some truth regarding screen gazers but let's not decrie an entire genre because some don't do it very well.
If you think this is what im saying, then you dont know how to read.
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There is a hell of a lot that can go wrong, all sync does is enable you to be able to drop in loops etc without having to undergo the rather boring and in context time consuming task of beat matching.
Theres nothing that can go wrong the audience will notice in that setup. This isnt so much about sync as it is about snap and quantise for button presses and loops. If you cant hit a button in time with a kick drum, and you need a sequencer to time your presses, then there is nothing 'LIVE' about that performance IMO.
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Try having 2 tracks playing at once and your preparing to add another 2 while doing a filter and reverb buildup on the playing tracks, and throw in you planning to cut the bass on one of the playing tracks so that the bass on a new track will replace it. Yeah I suppose because I'm using sync nothing can go wrong! In fact the machine does it all for me.
Is that supposed to be impressive? This is absolute basic standard Djing. You dont have any timing to worry about (which is %95 of musical performance), and you are swapping basslines. Jeff Mills does all this with four decks of vinyl, plus live drum machines and Im pretty sure youre not at his level.
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The problem here is that the 'no-sync' merchants don't have the imagination or creativity or balls to use the technology to create truly original sets and are happy to plod along 'seamlessly' ( and I use the term lightly) going from one track to another and then fiddle with a knob or two until the next track is due.
Im still yet to see any evidence of this whatsoever. In my experience those who use sync, snap and quantise are more likely to be lazy with their song selection and their general mixing, and just spam effects. DJs are playing fully recorded productions. If you want people to be impressed with your musicality, then do LivePA instead of pretending that running four quantised loops is somehow difficult.
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As an amateur I have only posted a handful of mixes, the main reason is that there are always mistakes that I hear, a place where I did not get the bass in on time or I killed the wrong track out of four. Maybe I'm useless but I'm not willing to sit on my ass and go A-B. The handful of live gigs I did were truly terrifying and I was sorely tempted to return to the safety of the phase matcher and go A-B for the night.
Finally we get to the point where you admit that you dont have faith in your basic DJ skills live, so you need the aids in order to perform. I personally have nothing against using the aids as long as the music is excellent. But in my experience, low effort DJing and bad music always appear to go hand in hand.
