If people want to keep it genuinely old school and a real artform though, then they're going to have to adapt the stance of the likes of DJ Format and Mr Thing, who skillfully play and scratch up their 7'' funk records for a few hours to really impress me, or be a more traditional turntablist, or some other way of being really creative with their mixing and tune selection. The whole experience feels a lot better and more natural and I know they've put the hours in to get to where they are. I know i've cheated, first by buying Scratch Live and having thousands of tunes at my disposal, then by using the cues, then looking at BPM's, then buying Dicers and now Serato DJ just seems to me to be a natural progression and if sync speeds things up just a little bit quicker still, then where's the harm.ĭon't get me wrong though, I love and prefer to watch DJ's using the old methods of mixing. Even if people don't use that feature (I didn't even know about it until last year) it's still there along with a whole host of features that helps you cheat, or actually get creative if you look at it the right way. Scratch Live users (keeping it real) could just hit the space bar, see the bpm down to a tenth and lock the incoming track into the same bpm in 2 seconds, if they wanted to, so anyone can know instantly if they have both tracks at the same tempo. I know avoiding the sync button is seen as the last bastion of keeping it real (shit, i've had that old school mentality of ''Keeping it real'' myself), but If people are using vinyl emulation, then they're cheating on the original artform anyway, maybe even far more than they realise. Sync is becoming less of an issue now, for me anyway.
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