Twiddling knobs anew
Just a quickie to state, for the record, how in love I am with Traktor DJ Studio 3.0!! It's so nice and stable and the new recording options are totally rad. I had a great time playing with it today.
The beat detection is a little tighter than before and it's a little better at detecting jungle (if not the exact BPM then 50% of it). The new effects are pretty nifty but don't interest me much. The looping options are expanded in exactly the way I'd hope they'd be which allows me to do some neat tricks. The auto analyze feature is handy since it shows the whole waveform, allowing me to predict when a song will break down so I can visually anticipate my mixpoints.
Still working out some little kinks but I hope to record a little sumfin sumfin in the near future!
United States of Oppression
I thought I'd share this video with you, the techno community, as a peek into the way we are percieved in one part of the world. I found this video of a presumably impromptu outdoor rave in Utah, America.
Talk about overkill. Perhaps the US suspects dance to be a means of communication with terrorists. Thanks for preventing a pre-emptive synchronized strike by various factions of honeybees, President Bush.
utah_rave_video.wmv
A promise kept and a promise broken
Well, Native Instruments has released version 3.0 of Traktor DJ Studio so I've got a bit of a learning curve ahead of me, impeding the release of my next mix. However, I'll release the 40 minute tribal house mix I worked on a while back to keep you all (my scores of faithful readers, I'm sure) sated.
Brian Damage - Shamanica (56MB, 40 mins, 192kbps stereo, 44khz)
Having bought a new computer case and fiddling with wires to reconnect everything, I seem to have botched my careful connections. Unfortunately, I was forced to record this mix onto audio tape. This is the last one, thankfully, as Traktor 3 finally allows me to record direct to WAV! I did some noise reduction and gain control so thankfully the only audible hiss can be heard in the second or two before the first song comes in.
There's nothing I love more than feedback about my track selection and technique, so kindly leave a comment if you've enjoyed my mix!
