"Digital is the future." said Uwe Schmidt. ...and I subscribe to that point of view! :-] Per-Olof Karlsson wrote:
Did you never ask yourself why DJs play vinyl and not CDs? Because they want the audience to dance, of course. You don't dance to a CD, 'cos there's no rock'n'roll in them.
Richie Hawtin plays only CDs and digital music files when djing. Go and see http://www.finalscratch.com Soleil Lapierre answered:
I know the answer to that. Because vinyl is far easier to scratch and beat-match. But that will change eventually. Actually I know a DJ who is working on hardware and software to make it even easier to do DJ tricks with MP3 files than it is with vinyl records.
Take a look at HPDJ: http://www.hpl.hp.com/news/2001/jan-mar/hpDJdemo.html DATABEAT: http://www.databeat.com Per-Olof Karlsson also wrote:
Music is analog, no matter how it was produced. The end result is sound, and sound is an analog phenomenon.
My mobile telephone's ringtone sounds only digital. BTW, are human ears also analogue? :-p Oh Jay wrote:
so HOW on earth can ANY "DIGITAL" medium EVER be "better" than ANY "ANALOG" medium then , eh ??? :-o well ... if u prefer A_CLONE or A_COPY to THE_ORIGINAL , then it can , but otherwise it simply COULDN'T_!!!
What comes from a digital synthesizer is a digital and original sound. DER AUTOMAT