The Warehouse club in Leeds, UK is re-opening and the are auditioning for residents.
Anyone who doesn’t know it’s a very famous club in the north of England and has hosted some of the top events over the years - KAOS/SOAK, Up Yer Ronson, Vague, Speedqueen & Technique.
Anyway they have re-fitted the club and want residents.
Here’s the good bit:
They have installed a Traktor & an Ableton server, an Audio 8, 2 Control X1’s & 2 Novation Launchpads as standard as well as CDJ’s & SL1210’s.
They want Digital DJ’s!
And they are willing to take on people with no club experience.
I think they should be applauded for their forward thinking, Leeds is full of DJ’s so to do it this way is cool imo.
Unfortunatley I got 2 kids now so I won’t be applying, but I was lucky enough to play the Warehouse back in the early 90’s a few times and I can tell you lot to go for it cos the place is rocking when full.
WareWolf I is a custom built server running Traktor Scratch Pro. The server contains two Quad Core Xeon Processors, 6GB DDR3 Ram, four 128GB SSD drives in a hardware RAID 10 array. The operating system is a stripped down version of Windows 7 64 bit designed specifically for The Warehouse. The hard drive contains the FLAC audio files that our resident DJs use to play on Traktor - each DJ gets an accessible network share that they can use to store their music, prepare sets and customise Traktor to suit their style.[/quote]
Do you have to use the clubs system? Can you not bring your own laptop with your pre-prepared sets etc.
Seems like a drag having to use the clubs WareWolf system. I mean its cool that they are accepting traktor/ableton djs etc but having to import your music to their system just seems like a snide way of building a huge library not to mention illegal file sharing. Yes it is illegal.
I do all my prep at home and i do a LOT of prep.
I hope they have a Traktor expert to sort the mess our after guys change tsi and layouts.
Sounds like a cool gig though. Last time i went to the Warehouse in leeds was for some bands a Looooooong time ago.
Nah it’s unlikely they don’t allow you to use your own laptop. However, if you are a resident at their club, why not use their own server if you can upload files from home etc.?
makes a residency more personal, which is cool. you really don’t have to bring anything. would be cool if this caught on. no risk on damaging your equipment, and you’d most likely always have a backup on your home computer if something happened to the server. the only thing i would worry about is the lifespan of those computers, being in such a hostile environment.
“each DJ gets an accessible network share that they can use to store their music”
Separate user accounts? I don’t see how putting your purchased music on a locked user account that say only you would use would be illegal file sharing ?
Anyways this seems like a really cool idea, except I agree with Karlos…Most Dj’s put quite a bit of time into their sets, I can only imagine 3 or 4 resident’s all battling for their time on the machine to prepare their sets
The real question that no one is asking is how they allow private switching of user accounts between djs at the end/start of a set, try telling the club to hold up while you log out and back in, sure you could play something on the cdj’s but seriously who wants to have to bring a cd to select your first track such a drag (jk ). Also curious as to which mixer they are using in the booth, maybe they managed to find a nice condition korg zero 8? that would be the perfect choice for cdjs, traktor and ableton in a non mobile setup. (IMO)
I forgot about VPN, I’ve used that with the school network I don’t know why I didn’t think of it haha, good call, this could really work. And to mpeterson it says they are using a xone:92
You don’t need access to the server to prepare your set surely. It can all be done at home. Collection and tracks on portable media or just copied onto the server and your away. Or am i missing something?
I dont see why it wouldnt be possible, but yeah change overs would be kinda difficult with just 1 system !
Having such a powerful server for an Ableton project would be interesting. You could go nutzoid on high CPU usage pluggins without having to worry about CPU usage. As for Traktor… that server is sooooo overkill !
it wouldn’t be great to just take your Controller and your external HD with your musics and your traktor configs to the club?
No notebooks in the bags anymore
I wonder if they are gonna let you stick your ext HD in their system though.
Its amazing how many djs come up to me and say “can i bring my usb memory stick next week and play some tunes” They are genuinely surprised when i say no.
It is an amazing system they seem to have built. They must have thought of all these issues and have built in the means to do it safely.
