Viewing Trktor while DJing and facing the crowd.
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These would be an odd idea!
Would be cool if you could make them clear…or LCD at a click of a button.
You would not have to look down at the screen all the time.
Yeah,
Not crazy about the spacefly look but looking at the laptop screen while djing is the biggest turnoff of controllerism i find.
So boring when u see someone onestage looking at their laptop…And having a laptop stand just makes it worse!
This is definetly an area in need of inovation
Cant wait till they come out with contacts that do the same ting.
Agreed!
That’s why i put the laptop just in front of my VCI…then i look over it…and at the VCI at the same time.
Seems a lil better.
Check out what a friend of mine made by hacking a Wii controller, it’s see through so the crowd can watch it too. Different kind of DJ setup, more mashup style but cool none the less.
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Awesome - yeah TradeMark is the bomb; he’s put a lot of thought into the showmanship side of controllerism. Besides the massive visual display for Ableton there’s another level of crowd interaction with the “wheel of mashups,” etc. ECC is doing some great things.
I’m not sure how something like this would work with Traktor (or Serato) as the screen itself is less intricate. I think it’s more about what you’re doing with the controllers at that level. While part of me would love to have this kind of direct interaction with a large screen, messing around with turntables, mixers, buttons, joysticks, etc. will probably look a lot more dynamic.
That’s pretty cool.
I give it 5 maybe 10 years where we won’t have monitors anymore everything will all be Minority Report style and just projections 5 feet in front of us. They are already working on this and have some limited success with a working prototype there just waiting for the other technologies to catch up to get it all working.
5 maybe 10 years before big time DJ’s is using it add another 5 years to that before it gets somewhat affordable and I’ll be 55 years old. I’ll have to have my son come over and set it up. Then I’ll call him every two days asking how to do something and I’ll just keep saying “why can’t I just turn a knob”
LoL I have a 3 year old and it scares me to think what wonders await her at my age and more. I mean just the last 20 years have superseded the last 100 years prolly two fold if not more. Come on future get here now … ohh man missed it .. ohh here it comes again come on future get here now …
LoL 
I have not seen many laptop djs live,so humour me, but how does a guy looking at his mixer and decks differ from looking at a laptop? I would say it was more of a problem with the DJ rather than the equipment
It’s not so much that they’re looking at decks or laptops, but that the laptops can be set up blocking the DJ from the crowds view and vice versa. When a DJ was plying CD’s or vinyl there’s more movement from the DJ so it looks better than a guy standing still browsing a library on a laptop.
I keep my laptop as tucked away as possible, I don’t like when DJ’s have laptops in front of them or on really high stands, just takes away from the crowd/DJ interaction.
I like the way Rusko uses his traktor scratch set up, I’ve seen videos wheres his laptop is on a shelf below the DJ booth or even on the floor, so when he loads new tracks it looks like he is digging for a record or searching for a CD.
I often use traktor purely in search mode so the only time I look at my screen is when I am searching for a new track… If you wanna stop looking at your laptop, try doing that…
I saw a video that Moldover did where he said he placed his laptop sideways next to the gear. that way you can still see it, but the visual footprint is much less.
ahhh i can see what you mean now, fair enough, yea, bad way to DJ live
That would be perfect for my Mac Mini setup!!!
I think you just have to teach yourself to look at the crowd. Use a mirror or a picture of a crowd on the wall for your practice setup at home. Fixes that problem pretty quickly.
I also think it helps to not have to actually touch the laptop. Touching the computer encourages you to crouch down and get in close to the laptop, exactly what we don’t want. It’s better if you can do it all with your controller while just sorta glancing at the screen from a distance when you need to.