But a good number will just reject it out of hand because people are people.Īnd it’s this mass of unquestioning accepters to tentatively interested users that eventually drag the naysayers and haters more towards their way of thinking. Others sit back and wait for the tech to mature, because there’s really nothing wrong with what they use now. Some human guinea pigs are curious and have a dabble. A few lemmings just automatically accept without question and use it from day one. Like all new technology, it hits an initial human barrier of reluctance. Instead, I feel it’s the people who have changed. And if you haven’t taken the time to prepare your tracks, checked the BPM, key, and beat grid, you’re still likely to create a cacophony of chaotic car crashing. BPM analysis is 95% accurate, and depending on the music finding the one isn’t bad either. Instead, as people have found out, the sync button will at best beat match, and not always on the one either.

It never has, and most likely never will. It was assumed that you pressed the button and your gear immediately read the crowd, picked the best track for the moment, chose the right point to drop it into the mix, applied just the right amount of EQ and effects, and knew precisely how long to run the blend for. It’s certainly not the technology, which has remained largely the same, and still requires a reasonable level of DJ skills to get it work close to the way many think thought. In the whole scheme of things, not a lot since I wrote my own opinion piece all those years ago. Granted, they might not be converts, but I’ll happily settle for not hating. It’s just his choice to practice the craft of DJing in a traditional way but using elements of new tech.Īnd I’ve seen this over and over, where successive generations of media purists and technology haters have untwisted their knickers, removed their blinkers, and actually tried the thing they’re blindly hating on, rapidly followed by picking up all the toys they’d previously thrown record distances from their prams. He’s never been an enemy of the sync button - indeed he’s an active advocate of using new tech to create and play music.

But uncharacteristically he forgot his headphones, leaving him in a bit of a pickle, one that saw him do something he’s generally shied away from - use the sync button.Īnd he liked it. He’s a really nice chap - a turntable rocking DVS user who plays out on the wild all the time. Last week, a friend of mine posted something of an epiphany on Facebook.

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