Armin van Buuren Explains How He Syncs Live Visuals With His Live Sets He Mixes On-The-Fly [VIDEO]

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Posted by TheDanLevy on Aug-31-2012 16:32:

Armin van Buuren Explains How He Syncs Live Visuals With His Live Sets He Mixes On-The-Fly [VIDEO]

Armin decided to make a video explaining how he does his live sets mixing in tracks and their visuals all on-the-fly and in real time as a response to 'his colleagues' who claim it is impossible to do and say they need to have things set up in advance.

I think it is a pretty cool video and just goes to show why he is one of the top DJs in the world.

According to the description:

quote:
Armin van Buuren explains how he syncs his live visuals on-the-fly with four Pioneer CDJ-2000s and a DJM-2000 mixer using just SMPTE signal and fader start functions.

http://youtu.be/m96MbRMzdHQ

Surprised I didn't see this posted anywhere here yet as its own thread (I looked, so forgive me if it was and mods please delete).

Posted by Prometheus Xex on Aug-31-2012 20:37:

That was pretty cool.

Posted by bcope on Aug-31-2012 20:48:

the thing thats always struck me as being so retarded about that "story", the people who tell it (and, to an extent, the people who believe it) is that like..since the dawn of time people have been shooting off pyro and lightshows at rock concerts....rock concerts are as live as live can be..how is it possible that millions of rock shows can pull it off but that a few swedish house mafiosos cant?

makes 0 sense

Posted by Katsu on Aug-31-2012 22:52:

This puts the nail in the coffin for the swedish mafia

Posted by jchung52 on Aug-31-2012 23:22:

Cool

Posted by kotsy on Aug-31-2012 23:38:

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Originally posted by Katsu
This puts the nail in the coffin for the swedish mafia

yup
maybe they'll break up over it

Posted by hardcore trancer on Sep-01-2012 01:40:

Now here is a proper setup.

Posted by GGM on Sep-04-2012 19:55:

Huge props to Armin for making this and I love how he snuck in a couple soft jabs along the way. If anyone has experience with festival shows using pyro/laser/display sync it's him.

He needs to start sporting a "I'm a trance ganster" shirt. I think it's time for a Sneak and Armin collab.. lol

Posted by bucky on Sep-05-2012 01:29:

quote:
Originally posted by GGM
Huge props to Armin for making this and I love how he snuck in a couple soft jabs along the way. If anyone has experience with festival shows using pyro/laser/display sync it's him.

He needs to start sporting a "I'm a trance ganster" shirt. I think it's time for a Sneak and Armin collab.. lol

I noticed the jabs as well and loved them. He basically says he rules and proves it without saying it.

Posted by legendary_waz on Sep-05-2012 02:44:

Its great to see how technically involved Armin is in knowing his setup and how everything works. Props to him for that.

Posted by Euphorica on Sep-06-2012 00:32:

very cool.

its funny how people go on about djing being easier than it used to be...well ya it can be but its not like joe blow is gonna walk up and have this go down smoothly. lol
theres a lot of tech going on these days.

Posted by Yohan on Sep-06-2012 19:18:

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Originally posted by Euphorica
very cool.

its funny how people go on about djing being easier than it used to be...well ya it can be but its not like joe blow is gonna walk up and have this go down smoothly. lol
theres a lot of tech going on these days.

Not that most DJs are going to bother using all the capabilities of a CDJ... still pretty cool vid

Posted by ezodus on Sep-06-2012 19:58:

best part of this video

"So my set is not programmed in advance,i know not before hand what i'm gonna play,depends on the people,so I'M ACTUALLY STILL DJING"

Posted by cb_32 on Sep-17-2012 00:51:

i bet deadmau5 watched that and cried himself to sleep because this literally debunks fucking everything he said in that "they all press play" blog entry