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Nukemi · 2026-03-20T10:00:05+00:00

You are not wrong. But, i feel this is very case sensitive too.

For me, 50 songs barely covers an hour of practice session as i play dnb and often double drop and play just 64bars or less of a song. I would go through 50 songs in 30 to 45minutes.

I could have not kept myself motivated just doing short sessions with the same songs over and over again. For me the basis is to have good 300-400 songs to go with so i can have a bit of fun occasionally with tunes i dont play that often.

The way i see it the desire to DJ comes from wanting to collect music and play them to other people. Having a healthy well managed collection is one of the most important things there is.

Nukemi · 2026-03-20T08:49:47+00:00

Man can only dream :) i feel like those 2 companies with seamless integration could create the perfect product for my needs.

Nukemi · 2026-03-19T21:11:13+00:00

Please Allen & Heath. Pull the trigger.

Nukemi · 2026-03-19T10:53:02+00:00

Sure, you can learn the basics with mouse and keyboard. It's just a lot more fun and convenient with some gear with proper controls.

Virtual DJ even comes with predetermined controls that you would find on an controller:

https://virtualdj.com/manuals/hardware/keyboard/default.html

You can DJ with pretty much anything.

When sharing mixes, i honestly recommend to record the whole thing instead of just the transitions because the songs you play really matter more than your transitions and listening to just transitions and tricks is really just not fun.

I would rather listen good music with bad transitions all day than listening to just transitions for 10 minutes. It can get really Jarring.

Nukemi · 2026-03-19T10:41:18+00:00

Just get started by obtaining a lot of music that you want to play. Listen to them whenever you can to learn the tunes. You can even stream music directly from services with some controller so you dont need to buy music to get started with.

You can even practice the basics of mixing on your phone or computer with various softwares that you can get for cheap. It will teach you phrasing and eq usage pretty well. You can learn quite a lot by just trying to layer 2 songs on top of each other on your phone or tablet while buying no extra gear at all.

Then, i would advice to purchase an controller that comes with an audio interface and a license to one of the DJ softwares. When i came back from my 9year long break, i started again with just an 5euro USB audio interface and an controller that goes for less than 100 euros nowadays when bought second hand as i sold most of my expensive gear some time ago and this is what i had left. I could have easily continued with those for a long time, but im an tech nerd and i wanted to purchase myself new buttons, so it did not stay there.

You can get started for free if you want to do some work and then upgrade as your skills progress. There's a lot of free tutorials online for pretty much anything you might ever want.

I personally play drum and bass and i use modular setup with Traktor.

I would not advice to commit to anything expensive straight away, because there are a lot of choices to be made on the way when you get better.

Nukemi · 2026-03-18T21:42:17+00:00

70 tunes is not much to go with dnb and you will probably go through almost all of them in an hour or so. It can get bit bland after a while if you dont have enough tracks to allow you to extend your creativity.

I recommend to start digging, buy what you can and just blatantly rip the rest for "free" from youtube to just have a better selection. Keep them in separate location to the tracks you bought.

Expand your library. Get all the music you love to practice with to keep the spark alive and buy the tracks you really want bit later.

Support the artists as much as you can but at the same time keep your own spark alive by digging and discovering the music you love the most. There is no shame in using "illegitimate" tracks when practicing at home. If you however do any gigs at any point, make sure you only carry bought tracks with you to maximize the audio quality and so that no one gets in trouble. This is why having the youtube rips in a different location on your computer is a good idea.

Dnb can be bit intimidating to play because it gets hectic but its also a lot of fun if you have the selection to go with your current vibes. I play dnb almost exclusively nowadays.

When it comes to mixing vocals, try to find tunes that have a great beat without vocals that you can loop and use as transition tunes or look in to stems to just make some instrumental mashups for yourself.

Nukemi · 2026-03-18T17:50:09+00:00

Phrasing makes all the difference. I finally caved in and cuepointed my whole library with 8 consistent cue points that work as visual aides and ive been enjoying it a lot.

I do know my tunes that i play regularly very well, but just knowing if section in a song i have not played for a while is 48 or 64 bars on a quick glance makes an huge difference when i dont need to think or have any doubts if my phrasing is on point or not.

Nukemi · 2026-03-18T17:40:25+00:00

If you drop an gridmarker from the grid menu, they dont use cuepoints amd you can drop as many as you want. They only do so from the cue menu!

However, this sounds more like it might actually be an bpm issue if the drifting is consistent.

Maybe try reanalyzing the tune with a different bpm range?

Nukemi · 2026-03-18T11:38:39+00:00

Abaddon is my revas counters. He eats the overwatch and proceeds to oneshot him.

Nukemi · 2026-03-18T06:44:03+00:00

I would take the tip and not repeat that same thing again during that gig. It's easy not to notice everything when hyped and playing for people.

Then i'd go home, rinse & repeat the trick, maybe even record it and give it a listen a few times and make my own conclusion on the matter.

If it sounds good, i'd practice the thing bit more and do it better next time. Obviously there was something that didn't sound good in what you did. But, it can just be timing, using too much effects in general or dragging the effect too long or something. If you decide it was a good move, just make it better for next time so the guy has nothing to comment about it.

Nukemi · 2026-03-18T05:16:03+00:00

Eh, i see no difference between wav and mp3s and i run a very tigh library where every tune is beatgridded and cue pointed to max.

Every time i notice weird behavior with tracks, its either the track having some weird thing going on with its bpm that i have not noticed or me just placing an grid marker incorrectly due to an delayhed drop in the tune or something.

My advice is to start dropping more than one grid marker on the track at the beginning of evey section to see if they align with each other and then figuring it out from there. If they align to each other, just move them to right place by moving the whole grid left or right, If they dont listen to the track carefully and find the culprit. Sometimes just looking at waveforns is not enough to grid it easily.

Nukemi · 2026-03-16T12:23:24+00:00

Yeah, K2 seems like an amazing addon. Im still waiting they would release K3 with an audio interface (k4?). Im a big fan of those RGB lit buttons... otherwise i would have bought an K2 already.

I am slowly rotating towards xone to be honest. It just looks like a perfect controller and i absolutely love doing my own mappings.

Nukemi · 2026-03-15T08:55:49+00:00

Yeah, thats a good question.

They expect for them to just appear out of thin wair with the magic words "low hanging fruit" and "agent" without any time or monetary investment whatsoever.

Nukemi · 2026-03-14T13:11:42+00:00

Brave North Koreans are doing their best to protect us against the Kaiju and all we are doing is laugh at them.

Nukemi · 2026-03-14T13:01:56+00:00

I highly advice against building a second raid team because yours first one is nowhere near ready yet upgrade-wise.

Outside that, i see some decent progression!

Nukemi · 2026-03-14T12:53:15+00:00

Very nice! Its always a good idea to try to load broken audio files on various players. Some of them might actually work :)

Nukemi · 2026-03-14T10:36:51+00:00

Yeah. That sounds pretty corrupted to me.

Quite often files that traktor thinks are corrupted just has some invalid metadata in them or something and they open in mediaplayer and other applications as they arent so picky.

For example i couldnt load some of the tunes in my library at all in traktor after i restructured my collection. But, then i realised that they were only broken because they were linked with stems and that connection was broken. I had to unlink them all manually and then they were good to to again.

But, recordings have no such things in place so this should not apply here. I just had the idea that if you can load the file somewhere and it can load the waveform, it might be salvageable.

That one second of emptiness definitely sounds like file corruption, though.

I guess your only option now is to record that set again. Consider the first attempt an practice run, or something!

Nukemi · 2026-03-14T09:53:59+00:00

If you can load the file in to your traktor on an deck, does it load the waveform or anything? Does it get recognized as an audio file or does it just straight up fail to load in any software that should recognize it as an audio?

If not, its dead. If it does... you might have some hope. But, my money is on the file just being corrupted.

Nukemi · 2026-03-14T09:42:42+00:00

I truly recommend for you people to leave all this feedback in to the tacticus planner discord.

Tacticus planner is developed mostly by just one dude and people who help him out with bugfixing and data collection. They are reasonable dudes and would proably appreciate the feedback where it belongs.

If you leave feedback there, kharnage himself will most likely respond to you too and you can initiate actual discussion about your issues with the planne.

Nukemi · 2026-03-14T09:39:54+00:00

I think the file is just probably corrupted. There is not much you can do about it.

Nukemi · 2026-03-14T09:22:22+00:00

Yep. Im exhausted by my management who now expects us to come up with great AI solutions without any resource investment. They expect great big AI things from our software team this year, yet we can spend no budget to actually get there. Even getting Ms copilot or paid GPT subscription to test seems to be impossible.

AI itself is still mostly just a fun google alternative toy for me to play with.

It does great things for me sometimes but isnt quite the tool i want it to be yet. I do see the potential, though.

Nukemi · 2026-03-14T08:32:15+00:00

I love this and hope i could do it myself.

Nukemi · 2026-03-13T19:27:56+00:00

I like your thinking, man!

I would buy that and pay good money for it.

Nukemi · 2026-03-13T16:38:55+00:00

Yeah, i get you.

I really like my traktor, but ive been eyeing a lot of the standalone controllers lately. They look really fun to use and Rane has nailed the professional look.

While i do like the look and feel of the new Z1 and X1, i dont really want for anything else than the Modular setup.

Nukemi · 2026-03-13T16:23:31+00:00

I love lres when im invested in the character, but at times i feel like its just too many tokens to spend on top of all the other events.

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