Ive blown the dust of my 90ties techno vinyl,
and are now enjoying the uncompressed dynamics of pre-2000 masters.
And hey: Its a lot more fun then DJing digitaly. The audience seem to love it too!
However, some of the old techno vinyl are pretty dry or flat,
both in the composition layout and with effects and buildups.
Where I come from, we used to fix that with 3 or 4 vinyl decks.
Back to current time: How about using the iPad for that?
Basicly I need "nudge" to cue the bpm, just like Live,
and it obviously have to play my own wav files.
When (or if) I start to get serious cash from this,
(its going to be a regular event) I might set up trakor or serato
and use 1 or two extra vinyl players to do this kind of stuf,
with timecode vinyl.
Its not that I need to stop using auto sync,
its just so much more fun to play without!
When I mastered keeping 4 vinyl decks in sync in the late 90ties,
the next step was to mix even more tracks: using Ableton Live.
Nothing wrong with that, but after 8 years of digital,
I have to admit that geting back to vinyl, theres something
with beat mixing it manually ("analog") that resonates in harmony with my soul.
To my suprice, after 20 years of club and rave experience
with vinyl techno, (2002 - 2011 CDs and Live)
geting back to it feels like its an instrument ive been playing progressivly
since the beginning. Even though I havent used vinyl for the last 8 years.
Its not like starting at point zero, it feels like the last years of
digitally performing with CDs and Live has actually improved the overal skill.
Edit: oh, and im looking for some kind of easy sampler
that can sample short clips from the master output,
so I can make rolls with the kick or percussion on the fly, from the vinyl.
One slot with lowpass filter and 8th note delay for the kick sampling rolls,
And one with highpass filter and 16th note with delay for the rest.
(Basicly mini Live for iPad)
It feels great playing vinyl again.
Now that would be something.