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Feb 16, 04
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Paul van Dyk drops vinyl forever!
Wired" magazine, Feb 2004
The freewheelin' DJ, by Adrienne Day When Paul Van Dyk goes on the road, he leaves his collection of vinyl and CD's at home. The popular Berlin-based techno Dj has gone entirely digital: He carries 1,000 select songs with him on a 60 gb Powerbook G4 that runs a harware-software tool called FinalScratch. He says he didn't like FinalScratch at first because it was designed mainly for mixing MP3's and other compressed audio files. "I'm a sound freak, "he admits - the quality wasn't high enough for him. So Van Dyk stores his tunes as uncompressed AIFF files instead, and for added refinement, he gives every track an extra smoothing for the dance floor. "Everything I play goes through the mastering setup of my studio," he explains,"so everything you hear sounds even better than the original record." Here is a peek inside his sound system: PVD scratches songs using a FinalScratch dummy record that looks and spins like a regular 12". "It's just like playing a real record," he says. The dummy record is placed on a deck connected to the scratch amp, which tells the Powerbook what part of the song to play and how to play it. The computer sends the music signal back to the scratch amp, which translates it from digital to analog and feeds it out to the club's sound system. Using a CD player, PVD can play a song into FinalScratch's memory buffer, then mix up to 3 iterations of that same song into each other. :smoke1: 
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Feb 17, 04
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PVD is a fag and his style sucks.
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Feb 17, 04
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count me in
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Feb 17, 04
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I love vinyl, but yeah, it's going extinct for all but scratch DJs probably. All of the big DJs are playing things pretty much exclusively off of CD-R because it just takes so bloody long for tunes to get pressed. A few of the guys I know on TA that have gotten signed are waiting upwards to a year to see their tunes actually pressed and distributed.
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Feb 18, 04
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it's not final scratch that crashes, it's the laptop.....running osx on a powerbook is virtually crash free, as a-sides pointed out to me when he was down at the lotus playing off of a powerbook and final scratch last week. that said, he still carries records just in case and had to use them on the current tour when his stanton 890 needles (designed specifically for fs) both blew on him. regardless, you still need turntables and a mixer to run fs on, and i can't see to many people learning to dj by buying a decks, a mixer, and then not buying records and instead skipping to the roughly $4000 or more for fs and a laptop.....
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Feb 18, 04
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^'zacly
plus i've heard from some scratch DJs that FS has latency problems that make precise cueing difficult... again that's more likely a problem with the computer, than the actual software i can see the benefit for someone like PVD of not having to travel with 100 lbs of vinyl.... 1000 songs in AIFF format on a 60 gig hd though? that seems like a stretch. Can't see FS replacing vinyl though, as Auto said, who would buy turntables and a mixer just to use FS? may as well just buy the laptop and get Traktor... or get some good CD decks. i'm still of the opinion that Vinyl will endure, though - it's lasted this long, and i think it appeals to people on many levels that these newer formats don't.
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