Your first DJ Software

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Your first DJ Software

How do you get involved in Digital DJing?

I installed my first DJ software back in 1999, when I was still running Win95. The name of the program was “Virtual Turntables”, and it allows to load all the tracks the RAM can manage. I used to work with 3-4 tracks at once. It supported WAVs and MP3s.

At that time, I got two sound cards on my destop PC (not SoundBlaster 'cause the IRQ conflicts).The product was discontinued in 2001, but the website still works:
http://www.carrotinnovations.com/vtt_overview.shtml

VTT was the door to a brand new world of digital audio manipulation. And I’m thankful.

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I started with Traktor DJ Studio1.2 or something.

Back in 2000 or 2001 I went to see a live show by Secret Cinema. He then used it to play his loops.
After seeing him use that, I was hooked.

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+1 with Tekki, I started with Traktor DJ Studio 2…with its very ugly color scheme

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I bought a box of CD labels to start organizing my tracks I had illegally downloaded and it came with a free copy of eJay. I put it on the comp, installed a second soundcard to preview, and just started working. From there it was on to Final Scratch 2.

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traktor dj studio 2 … I just played around with it for fun. Although I knew how to beatmatch with vinyl (learned on my friends turntable setup) I didn’t consider myself a DJ at that point.

It wasn’t until Traktor 3 was released that I started taking it much more seriously. I bedroom DJ’d constantly for about 2 years then eventually got into doing gigs/promoting.

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Winamp + crossfade.

haha :wink:

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Aaaaah yeahy! That the one JesC, Traktor 2 it was! :smiley:

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virtual dj a couple years back…

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about 10 years ago, and BPM Studio? I think it was called different then though… :slight_smile:

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as a young punk myself, i was introduced to early version of Traktro 3, i got hooked on it since then.

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I was hook when I 1st time I used Traktor 2, I was a pirated verison I had gotten from some warez site, once 2.5 came out I went legit.

** Wow haven’t seen SS714SS for a minute where have you been hiding?

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what up dude… chilling in the underground.. haha.. still here though:smiley:

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Don’t forget the Pitchfork plugin. :smiley:

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woah woah woah..lets not get too complicated here.

i can barely think about play pause! i mean, i am a girl. lets just keep it simple. i have my boyfriend make me a playlist beforehand, and i press play when i’m at the party…

Right?

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i had traktor 1.2 or something for a few years before i knew what it was (thanks to my cuz). i borrowed ejay off a mate, got bored of that pretty quick. then i eventually got ableton and hell broke loose from there

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As funny as it is, I have seen this happen.

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mixmiester studio

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anathema

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In 2001 I worked as a promoter on a big measure in germany called IFA in Berlin.
It was for a software company they had a software called “MJ Xtreme” (as the guys from steinberg came to our place - they said: Oh I have an offer about such a tool on my desk…)

We made there 5 shows a day - me on the computer - behind me 2 big plasma TVs where the crowd could see what i did - cool time :sunglasses: ( I only played my own tracks..) :smiley:

and there were no sync function…:smiley:

but the change from TT to PC were with Traktor 3 in 2007

..ok, talked too much - my answer is:

MJ XTREME (forgot the company name…)

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I think it was taktor 2, but i didnt stick with it for very long at all and decided to just keep producing :stuck_out_tongue:

When i decided to go back to djing and give a serious shot Traktor 3 was out, but i tried pretty much every dj program i could get my hands on before deciding to stick with Traktor.