sigh…nevermind…every fucking time I get ready to buy some shit like this a ‘crisis’ hits. SMH. At least I had this one partially budgeted, it just came out twice as much as expected.
Best option is to download a tracker program and watch a few tutorials on youtube. Milky tracker isn’t too complicated. I don’t care for it as my main sequencer, I use modplug, but I create all of my samples in Milky tracker. You might also want to look into lsdj, it’s a tracker program for the gameboy. I haven’t had a chance to use it myself, but it seems like most of the chiptune guys use it. If you have a nintendo DS, the Korg DS-10 synthesizer is alot of fun, but it’s not really for chiptunes, it’s a bit too good for that.
Check woot.com out daily, they had a USB vinyl record player there for like 40 dollars a few weeks ago.
Music
Cool, Music thread…i’ll post links and provide knowledge soon 
i’m dropping an album for free this friday (July 3rd)…i got a couple tracks up on my page:
lemme know what you think guys.
This thread makes me so angry sometimes.
why?
It should be a lot more active than it is, and nobody hardly ever provides feedback on the next mans stuff.
Kinda sad.
As far as I’m concerned, occasionally I’ll try to get some feed back here. I’m quite certain more people in this thread are into hip-hop/rap production rather than dance music production, so even when I do post some material I’m not confident that anyone will listen to it, and tbh I don’t listen to many others either for the fact that it’s mostly rap/hip-hop and wouldn’t give decent opinions on anyone’s material.
unreal, i dunno what to say except that you need to figure out what you need a turntable for…
like, if you are gonna scratch like mad and take it on the road if you do gigs than you definitely need to invest in an industry standard like a numark or (obviously) a technic
I have a USB turntable my dad got me as a gift and honestly it just sits there with dust on it. I don’t have a preamp to hook it up to most of the time and the output it has is a joke if you run it through a shelf system or mini stereo. if you wanna run it thru your comp it’s kinda useless because the only program it came with was audacity and you can’t really just listen to it through your computer speakers without recording it at the same time… regardless of whether or not you are going to keep the recording. doesn’t seem like a big deal until you wanna fall asleep to a record or something and then it just keeps recording and you wake up to a 3 gig file in your temp reg. bullshit.
anyway, taking a break from making a lot of music (check it out at www.myspace.com/adubbeats ) to DJ a lot more. I’ll post up a link to a DJ mix for you.
http://www.zshare.net/audio/61724502ea7fb47e/
but yea this thread makes me cry a lil bit too… tryin to be a professional dj/producer over here… hah.
definitely chill, was grooving out to this and checked my itunes to see who it was, only to remember i opened it in another tab and itunes wasn’t open.
It really depends on a bunch of things, yes what you want to use it for is pretty important, but just as important is what software your going to be controlling it with.
i think that the price gap is so huge that if you were going to buy a professional turntable instead you would already know how to use it and have inputs for it.
is there any other cool usb turntable software? i’m dyin to put mine to some use for something…
Ugh you have to manually stop it? :wasted: Nail In Coffin.
It serves no point then, I can hook up any turntable and record into Cool Edit if need be.
My MAIN goal is simply sampling…digging thru the crates, I’m no DJ and have no want to really be one, my taste aren’t ‘matched’ with other’s taste. So for just sampling an el cheapo with moderate controls will do fine, but then I’m thinking about the ability to scratch on record and it becomes tempting to go a step up. But the more I think about it, the less likely it is for me to scratch the old records I’m buying.
shrug
Ironically I’m going to go pick up a couple crates today.
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There are at three big name DVS’s (that I know of anyway), Serato Scratch Live, Traktor Scratch Pro and relatively new Torq.
I’m not a great DJ, so I got an X-session pro (a midi controller) and use a trail version of Torq to mix tracks together with.
hahaha. i’m so pumped to be releasing this album finally…i’ve been working on it for way too long.
Musagi is a good one. But it’s not really true chiptune. It’s a sequencer with some really good NES and other chip emulators. But you can drop VSTs into it to.
Tutorial here.
Tweakbench plugins are pretty awesome, too. Peach, Toad, & Triforce= NES. They are sample-based synths. The rest of the plug-ins are pretty awesome, too. All of them are VST plugins, so you’re going to have to use a sequencer.
Hope that helps. That’s about all I’ve ever used for chip, since I pretty much stick to VSTs.
oh no i know all about those, i meant is there any software worth looking into for USB turntables, not turntable software that used USB.
anyway, i love torq and everything, but if you are a working DJ than you use serato because that’s what all the clubs have. i know it’s the most basic one, but i tell you, if you just read the shortcuts and learn a couple things, all the other DJs are gonna go “damn, you can do that with serato!?”
“because that’s what all the clubs have?” Who DJs seriously without their own equipment?
heh, my bad I don’t use USB turntables at all, I just know of them.
Torq is good software from what I can tell from the Light Edition. I’ve even thought about getting an xponent if they go down in price a little bit. And before i used Torq, I used Traktor, which was good too. I have never used Serato before but yea I hear it’s probably the most commonly used especially with hip hop DJ’s.