JackNine wrote:
but what else can you do? Do you have any musical taste? Can you pick tracks that flow from one to the next? Do you have a journey? For the vast majority of DJs today, even with auto beatmatching, the answer is no.
These things you listed are a key part of DJ-ing and mastering them takes years, and no tool will do this for you. It's about knowing which tracks go together, about musical taste, about creating a journey, just as you said it. It is also about creating your own collection of records, and this also takes time. I wrote a few of these things this few days ago on a different forum. But having tools like Traktor and stuff is not a good thing for a beginner. It just enables him to bypass all this stuff that is required to be a good DJ and just clicks the sync button, and thinks to himself, "yea I can do it instantly, I don't need anything else"... That's why I don't mind these big guys doing it w/ Traktor nowadays, because they have proven themselves numerous times by now....
