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Speaking of hobbies, I thoroughly enjoy bicycle travel, motorcycles, and DJ mixing. There you have it, a top 3 list of hobbies that can make for any online dating profile. DJ mixing has the potential to become seriously addictive, and when combined with an IPad on a bicycle trip, then my career has practically been hijacked now.
An IPad is actually the perfect choice for a virtual DJ app. I used to do this extensively with a PC but gave up as it's too much work to use a mouse and trackball, and the headphone interface is a pain. Most of the free apps don't come with headphone feature anyway
A brief overview on how virtual DJ mixing works. The "traditional" approach aims to replicate the physical DJ turntables and mixers, which cost a fortune to use and make for a hobby that I simply will never be able to afford. But the computers can replicate that equipment. The two turntables are linked with a crossfader and a mixer that allows for various sampling and sound effects. Manual cueing of tracks is standard. Some of the more sophisticated programs have auto BPM matching, and the headphone feature. To mix tracks, the DJ has one turntable going and then typically plugs in a headphone for the other deck. The DJ can hear both turntables but the audience only hears one. The DJ then relies on complex beatmatching and cueing skills to get the tracks lined up, which take years of practice and fine-tuning. He then plays both decks live with the crossfader and uses various other mixing features to seamlessly mix the tracks for the audience. This goes on and on to produce a stream of music.
In my opinion, techno and house are the easiest to mix for beginners. The computer can match BPMs and there are no lyrics to worry about. With time and skill, some awesome mix techniques can be honed and the audience will be ooed and aahhed by the skill of the DJ.
Mixing hip hop is way more difficult and beginners would probably want to avoid it. With hip hop, it sounds terrible to mix with lyrics, and so there is a short opportunity at the "intro" and the "outro" of each track to do the mix. The computer doesn't match BPMs very well with hip hop and it all depends on the track, so a ton of fiddling is involved.
An Ipad can do this mixing much better as you're using both your hands as an actual DJ would, and not fiddling around with mouses and trackballs with only one hand. I've also downloaded a visual mixing app that claims to be better than the traditional headphones method, and will see how this one works.
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Speaking of hobbies, I thoroughly enjoy bicycle travel, motorcycles, and DJ mixing. There you have it, a top 3 list of hobbies that can make for any online dating profile. DJ mixing has the potential to become seriously addictive, and when combined with an IPad on a bicycle trip, then my career has practically been hijacked now.
An IPad is actually the perfect choice for a virtual DJ app. I used to do this extensively with a PC but gave up as it's too much work to use a mouse and trackball, and the headphone interface is a pain. Most of the free apps don't come with headphone feature anyway
A brief overview on how virtual DJ mixing works. The "traditional" approach aims to replicate the physical DJ turntables and mixers, which cost a fortune to use and make for a hobby that I simply will never be able to afford. But the computers can replicate that equipment. The two turntables are linked with a crossfader and a mixer that allows for various sampling and sound effects. Manual cueing of tracks is standard. Some of the more sophisticated programs have auto BPM matching, and the headphone feature. To mix tracks, the DJ has one turntable going and then typically plugs in a headphone for the other deck. The DJ can hear both turntables but the audience only hears one. The DJ then relies on complex beatmatching and cueing skills to get the tracks lined up, which take years of practice and fine-tuning. He then plays both decks live with the crossfader and uses various other mixing features to seamlessly mix the tracks for the audience. This goes on and on to produce a stream of music.
In my opinion, techno and house are the easiest to mix for beginners. The computer can match BPMs and there are no lyrics to worry about. With time and skill, some awesome mix techniques can be honed and the audience will be ooed and aahhed by the skill of the DJ.
Mixing hip hop is way more difficult and beginners would probably want to avoid it. With hip hop, it sounds terrible to mix with lyrics, and so there is a short opportunity at the "intro" and the "outro" of each track to do the mix. The computer doesn't match BPMs very well with hip hop and it all depends on the track, so a ton of fiddling is involved.
An Ipad can do this mixing much better as you're using both your hands as an actual DJ would, and not fiddling around with mouses and trackballs with only one hand. I've also downloaded a visual mixing app that claims to be better than the traditional headphones method, and will see how this one works.
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