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Mixing in the Future! (pg. 4)
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| quote: | Originally posted by A.DJ
We currently have 5 people working on this in house. One programmer one graphics designer, one stylist(female), one marketing manager and me in charge of administration/PR/Business Relations(female). |
lol, are u doing stuff other than telling people on internet forums abt it?
| quote: | Originally posted by A.DJ
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| A.DJ |
| Our word is spreading, because we are only recruiting beta testers for now we are mainly comunicating via the internet. |
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| Dervish |
| quote: | | Originally posted by Nemesis44 I have to say that some parts in the mixes are harmonically horrible but I think that emphasises the power of this tool in the hands of someone who knows how keys work together. |
Actually when I think about it, if you got the thing to find the key of tracks that would be handy and solve thouse problems.
You could create a night profile(key progressions maybe or just a curve of the night) and just get the system to work it out using the records. (not very "DJ" but for the carpet and chorme replacement it would work better)
Especially if it recalulated the key as the pitch is changed accurately. Not something I know enough about to do myself but surely do-able. |
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| Dervish |
One issue though, your handing out your program to any random who signs up over the net what sort of IP protection are you using?
Otherwise I could say sign up and put it straight on my website in international waters and you'd be screwed.
I know this sounds gay but I'd design it broke (as in restricted, think you said something on the site about not, but I would). Or remove some major functionality.
Btw your company sounds like it has too many Chiefs and not enough Indians (as in programmers actually making it). :p |
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| A.DJ |
We are not handing our software to just anyone who signs up. We select the people we would like to have on our team for it is a lifetime ADJ membership. We have protected ourselves very well.
There always will be the hacker cracker or software ripper who would try. As far as we are concerned our software is safe. :) |
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| quote: | Originally posted by Dervish
Btw your company sounds like it has too many Chiefs and not enough Indians (as in programmers actually making it). :p |
Yeah, when i saw 1 programmer, this guy must be DAMN smart or just works extremely hard or you guys have been working on this for a LONG time. i havent seen your program but 1 programmer means this thing is gonna be small and its functionality can't be too large.
You just cant make a very good program with one guy, who has he go to bounce ideas off? who says "hey thats a good plan" or "not thats a bad idea", no-one it seems, your code/program/application is gonna be buggy as hell, i know this is what the beta testing is for, but i hope this guy is one hell of a software engineer to pull all of this off by himself!!! |
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| Nemesis44 |
| quote: | Originally posted by A.DJ
We are not handing our software to just anyone who signs up. We select the people we would like to have on our team for it is a lifetime ADJ membership. We have protected ourselves very well.
There always will be the hacker cracker or software ripper who would try. As far as we are concerned our software is safe. :) |
All signed up, hope I don't fall into the just anyone category he he. ;)
Cheers
Nem |
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| Dervish |
What about getting everyone to sign an NDA and encoding each .exe at compile time with a unique number built (make no other referances to the number in the program though) in so you can prove who it was ?
And also only sending to an actual address rather than over the net.
So you'd have proof of who did it (if they rip it off) and where they live. Still weak but way better than having a simple key based protection only.
If you use that the dialogue boxes asking you for the key have a big string in them which you can search the assembler code for to get to the right place to start cracking.... alledgedly.... ;) |
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| b i n k u n |
Personally, I don't want to go to a club just to hear someone pick tracks and let it play, however well mixed or not. that's only 1/3 of what a good DJ is in my book. the other two, 2) technical skills and 2) "stage" presence to me matters a lot.
in regards to 2), part of what makes a DJ good and a night awesome is how the DJ mixes his tracks and how he brings it in. Not sure exactly if your program can do this, but if it does, I don't see how it is any different then MixMeister, Traktor, etc. I love it when a DJ "teases" the crowd and drops a sample from somewhere and so forth, the spontaneity of the night is what makes a night awesome. sure, a DJ could sit up there and pick tracks as he reads the crowd, but somehow it just doesn't seem the same. a good DJ has control of his crowd through his technical skills, ability to work the mix, the eqs, etc.
in regards to 3), i don't care how good a tracklisting a DJ puts together...watching a DJ play with a computer just isn't the same. and as a DJ, i don't think i can really get into a night performing if I'm stuck behind a computer pushing buttons. I've played with ableton, and the only reason I've accepted it is the live element it has and that you can still have external control of what you are doing. don't know if your software has any midi control, but if it doesn't, i'm not interested.
just my two cents. *shrug. i'm all for combining digital technology with existing technology though, it does open a whole lot of horizons....but the "auto" part of it just is a total turn-off. all the same, good luck with your product though, the mixes do sound spot on. props to your programmer...curious if it has time-stretching abilities though, because that's one problem even the bigboys (protools, logic, etc) have difficulties with.
Nemesis: i agree, skin-faithfulness is damn hard to mix. it has an off-beat bass drum or something right after the main kick. or something like that, can't exactly remember, but it took me awhile to get it down. |
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| Nic |
| what exactly does this program do that ableton live dosent do? aside from lighting of course |
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| Desty Nova |
BUGGER OFF YOU SHYSTERS! This sort of spamming really gets up my nose. Everything's turned into a giant effing money run. |
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