Originally Posted by
mostapha
Because it's not really that poweful. It's capable of mashups and a little finer control of effects, but that's about it.
Also, and I say this as someone who wanted to DJ that way for years, I've come to the conclusion that the naysayers were right. Even if you manage to get stems, it just doesn't work out quite like you think it will. Production environments have such finer control than what you can do live, it creates a very complicated thing that isn't really either DJing or production. It works out for live shows. And there are ways to do it, but I just don't think that stems decks are what you really need to get much out of it.
If you want to experiment with stems, there's nothing wrong with that. You can map them to anything, but the D2, S5, and S8 will work out of the box. And the way they implemented it is actually pretty slick...when you load a stems file, the deck flavor changes and the controls show up the way they're supposed to. When you load a normal track or a remix deck, the same thing happens.
If you want to play with finer control, I think the best way to do it is to use Live, make your own stems, and play with them. There have been at least a small number of people who did that (Tarekith comes to mind). And Live is perfectly capable of playing a DJ set, it's just weird control if you're only used to something based on decks.
So....what do you want to do?
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