News Digital CD decks challenge vinyl

Will's not going to like this....

From the Beeb:

The success of a digital system that allows CDs to be scratched and mixed in the same way as 12-inch records could mean the death end of DJs using vinyl, a top DJ and record producer has said.

The system, called the CDJ-1000 and produced by technology company Pioneer, has been designed to replicate as much as possible a traditional vinyl deck, but taking advantage of modern digital technology.

The decks, which have already won a number of awards, have been given great approval by Erick Morillo, boss of Subliminal records and one of the most influential DJs in the world.

"I'm letting technology take over," Mr Morillo told BBC World Service's The Music Biz programme.

"With the introduction of the CDJ-1000 I feel like there's a whole new way of DJing these days."

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what about scratching then, i DJ and i use nothing but vinyl. i see nothing wrong with cd DJ'ing but even if it is as good as they say vinyl sounds better any way. it will catch on but not in the near future. I have heard some amasing mixes and they where all done with vinyl, it's the freedom you have to have total control over the vinyl simply because you can touch it. Because cd's spin faster they need some kind of control mechanism to amplify perfectly your movements on the pads. And some artists deliberatly scratch their vinyls to add effects to their mixes, this is done on a third deck this can't be done with cd's. Ok the loop effect adds to the experience. But i wouldn't trade my decks in for them yet, i wouldn't use them alongside my decks either because of the small size of the pad, mixing is about total control, making things smaller mean it's more fidgity and so much harder to perfect. Erick Morillo, the man who's speaking for the new technology. his sets are rather slow paced and so could be more usefull for him, whereas me a HARD HOUSE fanatic whose records never slow down to less than 170bpm's i need this extra control. And any way he'll still need to go out and buy all his vinyl and then copy it onto cd's as a lot of the music he play's never comes out on cd. one last thing because it's all digitised it's going to go wrong at leadt once in his set's, run out of ram or something, the simpler you make things the less things can go wrong.

 

theres another new technology phasing out vinyl, it still uses your original turntable setup, but uses a special record thats essentialy just 10 ticks a second, then u hook the turn tables up to ur comp and based on how the ticks are distorted by the scratching it distorts ur mp3's in the same way, It works really well i hear. ITs essentially the same exact scratching but now the records are all on ur comp

 

and again, the more complicated you make things, the more things can go wrong. i'm not against these new technologies, but i myself won't use them. vinyl sounds much better than cd's let alone mp3's, and again you'll have to buy the vinyl in the first place and then rip to mp3 or wav, as a lot of these tracks only get released on vinyl.

 

the upside is that only the ticker records ever get worn, and they are cheapily replaced plus with hi-quality mp3's you wont miss much in sound quality, and then a dj has the ability to easily stroll thru hundres of records and thousands of tracks while scratching, it saves having to have all the records next to your turntables if you do parties and ssuch

 

It's a good idea, but not for myself as i never want to miss that irreplasable sound you only get from vinyl. It would be usfull for smaller mobile DJ's who do parties but bigger international DJ's who only do events where people pay up to £75 for tickets and over that for travel. thesee people want to hear vinyl not some imitation. You can argue all you want but it will never change my mind.