![]() ![]() This information is invaluable to a long-time DJ. Those marks are permanently available and edited into track display when playing every time. they’ve invested a lot of elbow grease (and we mean A LOT) with performance marks on each song (start/stop cue points, loops, etc). If a DJ has used Serato (or Traktor) for any amount offtime. One very steep downfall though, you don’t get all the edits you’ve made to the tracks. ![]() RekordBox creates a container, “crate” or “folder” where DJs can put tracks in (at the very least) sequence, for performance. When you throw mp3s onto a flash drive what you end up with is a jumble of unorganized, un-sequenced tracks, alphabetized by their metadata tags (and not even the proper title). Now DJs can show up with everything they need in their pockets. With the proliferation of CDJs at most venues. In the last several years another leap has happened. On a fundamental level, Serato made it possible to play gigs with a laptop instead of hundreds of pounds of records and you could carry your entire library with you, to boot. To the external view, it looks like music is being ‘projected’ onto a single pair, two blank 12”s of vinyl that never got removed from the turntables. We know, it seems like sci-fi magic and has to be explained several times to the normal audience member when they see it happening before their eyes. In simple terms, they created a MIDI-based software that accessed and transformed a DJ’s digital record library into a singular physical, vinyl record on a normal turntable. Then came the MP3 digital music format and with its popularization, Serato overhauled the entire artform. Before then, DJs carried the burden of 30 lb. Now, in order to talk about Record Buddy, which is the point of this post, we have to drill back the conversation to Serato, the MIDI software that revolutionized djing in the 2000s. ![]()
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