Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Friday Music: Go Home DJ, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Are any of these apps Ranty Dave’s product? Maybe he’ll come on here and tell us about it – the different feature is being able to preview and set up your mixes ahead of time.
I don't *think* so. And even if it is, I certainly mean no ill towards Ranty Dave. I saw a talk he gave a while about making his app that was impressive and interesting.
Playing tunes at home is truly a different use case from DJing for an audience though. In the former case, you probably want automatic blends and sequencing, with the ability to easily cue anything up from an entire record collection.
All three apps I tried gave you access to your iTunes library and playlists -- I think that's a bottom line for any home DJ software. djay just made a much nicer job of it.
In fact, a lot of it's in the UI -- it should be fun to use. The virtual turntables are great in djay -- you can use them to scratch and it's good to look at. It's easy to invoke a half dozen different transitions (from simple crossfade to brake), set a playlist on automix, etc. You can sync records for BPM but I honestly don't think that's necessary or even appropriate a lot of the time.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Go Home DJ, in reply to Steve Barnes,
I am not sure if there is an iPood version but I thought use Apple guys let Steve Jobs choose your music for you.
Heh. I fucking hate shopping at the iTunes Store, but the Apple ecosystem does playback pretty bloody well. I either AirPlay music from my phone (including Soundcloud, Hype Machine and Spotify apps) or, more often, use my phone as an iTunes remote. The iOS djay remote is quite handy too.
But I was sure I used to be able to set iTunes to automix from track to track and I'm damned if I can see how to do that now.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Go Home DJ, in reply to Andre Alessi,
The local Devonport rag, The Flagstaff, has a hilariously nose-out-of-joint article about Lorde, mentioning that while she was happy to grant them an interview in 2009 when she won the Belmont Intermediate School Talent Quest, she didn’t respond to their more recent requests for comment.
We just fell about laughing to this news. Bless the Flagstaff.
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Another from Darcy. For all that he's doing it in a comedy accent, this is a great cover of 'Jolene':
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Hard News: Wikileaks: had things gone differently, in reply to Kumara Republic,
What Gina Rinehart is doing right now is making Rupert Murdoch look like Seymour Hersh.
Breathtaking.
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Just back from the recording. The panel with Nicky and Jon is bloody interesting -- and contains one good piece of local news.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Noise for the neighbours, in reply to Danielle,
And now, since I am in my advanced years, in re-listening to that Blue Boy song I thought “oh hang on, that must be sampled from something ELSE awesome”, and a few moments brought me to this:
And that stuff isn't really even in the studio version of that song. It's that one performance. Awes.
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Gareth,
Yep, Camera+ works really well for me, although most of the effects filters are less than useful and I wish the built-in post-to-Twitter part was z bit more of a Twitter client. For snaps from low-light scenes, the Clarity button is amazing.
And, of course, it shares a key developer with Public Address :-)
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to JacksonP,
Wow, you must have been exhausted. I am, just thinking about it all. Guess you rode your bike all over town too?
Naturally. But nowhere was very far.
Having nearly sliced off the tip of my left index finger with a big, sharp knife, I'd been off the bike for a couple of weeks to avoid stressing the finger and let it heal.
Got back on last Thursday and celebrated by getting a rear carrier and convertible (to a backpack) pannier bag. -- which has been a revelation. Huzzah! Wish I'd done it sooner, but I'd had an idea about getting a cheap shopping bike.
With the pics, I'm just pointing an iPhone and hoping, but the being-there is the thing.