![]() ![]() You might be like rRoxymore, who’s inclined to improvise and go with the flow. The question is, how specific should you be about genres? The short answer is, it’s up to you. Even a shambolic stereotype like Eyeball Paul, in a scene from the cult 2000 film Kevin & Perry Go Large, suggests that it’s useful to distinguish between, say, “acid house” and “pumping house.” So, where do you start? Having a rough mental map of your music collection and applying it digitally can go a long way. “If, like most people, you have hundreds or thousands of MP3s, if you want to spend a whole week going through tagging them all with the right genre, the right year, artist names and track names, it’s an absolute mission.” “Don’t be lazy on metadata, because it’s one of the longest things to try and rectify,” Reaper says. The key to avoiding this is tagging your music collection properly, and as you go. Without the rich visual information that vinyl can offer - artwork, stickers and so on - scrolling through similar lines of text on a CDJ or laptop can elicit panic rather than clarity. “I started off as a digital DJ on Traktor for all my tunes,” says Tim Reaper, “but it was a bit overwhelming to try to find them in the moment or type in the artist name.” This tends to be a common experience for digital DJs getting started. You won’t, after all, always remember that a track is in A minor, or that it has live drums, or that it might be too rowdy for a Sunday afternoon. But in an era of musical abundance, where DJs may have thousands of songs on a single USB drive, that intuition has its limits. ![]() Your brain has its own filing system if you turn up to a gig with a folder of 50 tracks you know inside-out, there isn’t much organizing to do. Of course, DJs have always organised their music collections in some way. By being able to encode tracks with tons of metadata - track titles, artist names, key, tempo, genre and much more - DJs have unprecedented control over how to organise (and present) their tunes. But as software and CDJs become more central to DJing - and as DJs themselves have more music to reckon with than ever before - the secret sauce to doing it well in 2021 arguably requires a slightly more technical recipe.ĭJ software such as Serato, Traktor, and rekordbox have changed the way many DJs approach the craft. Please read this FAQ.What does it take to be a good DJ? Perhaps you’d say it’s about having great taste. Windows computers using Intel graphics cards are not currently supported by Serato Video. *Operating System support assumes you are using the latest point release. Please read the following FAQs first if you are considering buying a Windows based PC with an Intel iSeries, Pentium P6xxx or AMD processor.Īll Intel i3, i5 and i7 processors are supported. Please Note: Currently we do not support Windows 8 for Serato DJ Intro. Read the full Serato DJ Intro 1.2.0 release More information about Serato DJ Intro controllers OS SupportĮnsure that you meet the system requirements for Serato DJ Intro. *Some Vestax VCI-400s may require a firmware upgrade to function correctly with Serato DJ Intro. Serato DJ Intro 1.2 supports the following controllers:
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