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With all the technological advancements in the dj world. Do you think we hit the wall?

it was in the mid 60's the first dj mixers were invented and then early 1972 the famed Technics 1200 was introduced and the rest is history. We have moved on to cd players and now midi controllers. Personally I don't see any other big advancements coming in the future of how we play music, I feel that midi is here to stay and will only improve in time. Speakers are lighter, compact and more powerful, equipment that took up a whole table now fits in a bag. I think the "WOW FACTOR" is drawing to a close. Perhaps in 10 years there will be another game changer?
 
Posted Thu 11 Jul 13 @ 9:09 am
I think the next game changer, for VJs anyway, is going to be glasses free 3D displays. It'll probably take a while for the music & software companies to implement it once the displays hit the market, but it has awesome potential.
 
 
 
I'm waiting for speakers to become obselete. Instead they will use microwave signals to beam the sound directly to your brain. I can't see dj technology progressing much further from here, the industry will probably turn to production very soon.
 
JayMSY wrote :
xcakid wrote :
Remote DJ'ing.

http://www.remotedjs.com/


What happens when there is an internet outage? Dead AIR!



Yep, LOL. They're still working on that.

Idea is pretty cool though. Imagine having Armin Van Buuren or some other well known DJ producer spin at your club, without have to pay for his flight, hotel, and per diem. All you have to do is pay him/her performance fee. That would save thousands of dollars right there. For the DJ you can spin at dozens of venues all over the world in a week without having to travel.
 
I actually had a business idea in the late 90's for something similar but using Satellite...even go so far as to having a "booth" with a camera for the club goer making a request and also cameras showing the dancefloor. The idea quickly vanished when I thought it out a bit more and realized it would be extremely difficult to be able to see the age of the crowd...without having that information it is hard to program correctly. Another part of the idea would have been syndication...well each crowd is different so that would fail too.
 
On stage, full size holographs of the artists performing their tunes, getting Britney off stage to let on Pink might cause a problem though... and at last I'll get my holographic groupies. By then it'll be lights out for me, so who cares, lol.
 
remote dj'ing. isn't that called radio?

but I know what you mean. I was in the hospital earlier this year and was sitting there thinking that with a good strong broadband connection both ways I could have done the night from my bed with a couple laptops and a USB headset with webcams set up in club to read the crowd.


unfortunately I see this as being problematic for our profession. think about it. club owners only paying one guy for multiple venues while other dj's get shut out of much needed gigs. opens up a whole new level of competition and issues.
 
wildcountryclub wrote :

unfortunately I see this as being problematic for our profession. think about it. club owners only paying one guy for multiple venues while other dj's get shut out of much needed gigs. opens up a whole new level of competition and issues.


Clubland follows Radio footsteps! haha. That would be a sad day...just as Voice-Tracking killed the local radio announcer.
 
tayla wrote :
On stage, full size holographs of the artists performing their tunes, getting Britney off stage to let on Pink might cause a problem though... and at last I'll get my holographic groupies. By then it'll be lights out for me, so who cares, lol.


This is where I was going to go. But more 3D or VR sets. It will just end up being a computer running the whole thing but through a helmet on or by that time the new Pioneer Oakley's or Ray-Ban's will be out. A simple pair of gloves for the control and the CDJ2000's will look like a floppy disk drive to us now. Search the world for songs from Satellite or whatever and you don't even need to stay in the club you can walk down the street with music playing around you ALL the time.

Brendan
 
I'd like to dispense with my laptop screen, replacing it with a head-up display built into a pair of shades, a la Google Glass. Not in an attempt to look cool, but to beat those trainspotters you always get round the DJ booth, watching everything you play on your lappy.
 
If someone is going to go party at a club and pay cover charge, high priced drinks, plus tip the wait staff...then they should be seeing a live DJ! If they wanted to see one through a screen then they could save their money and stream it at home.
 
the only constant in this world is change. :) so i think no no wall yet :)
 
they could always include actual video preview displays on a controller (sweet) or even a master alone. alot of is video dj out there would dig it
 
djsherz wrote :
I'd like to dispense with my laptop screen, replacing it with a head-up display built into a pair of shades, a la Google Glass. Not in an attempt to look cool, but to beat those trainspotters you always get round the DJ booth, watching everything you play on your lappy.


That may already be possible with Google glasses. It's still in beta, but the technology is out there. It's basically a heads up display and web cam. May take a bit programming with regard to linking it to your laptop, but it just may be do able.



http://www.google.com/glass/start/what-it-does/
 
djsherz wrote :
Not in an attempt to look cool, but to beat those trainspotters you always get round the DJ booth, watching everything you play on your lappy.

Shazam e.t.c. will find almost anything these days...
Until you heads up display idea is actually a common reality one won't need to look at your display... Shazam this, Shazam that... Done!
 
PhantomDeejay wrote :
djsherz wrote :
Not in an attempt to look cool, but to beat those trainspotters you always get round the DJ booth, watching everything you play on your lappy.

Shazam e.t.c. will find almost anything these days...
Until you heads up display idea is actually a common reality one won't need to look at your display... Shazam this, Shazam that... Done!


True, to a certain degree.

I play a lot of Top40 remixes or just remixes in general. When you try to Shazam that track, it will give you just the name and title, not the actual remixers name.

IE: Guns and Roses - Sweet Child O Mine (DJ Nickel Rework) || on Shazam it will just Show: Guns and Roses - Sweet Child O Mine
If the remix has a drastic change in key or BPM, it will not recognize it. I have a Selena Gomez - Come and Get It transition to Trap that Shazam does not recognize.
 
 


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