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Let me know what you guys think! and feel free to post your sounds for feedback or a listen also have a happy new year! https://soundcloud.com/os_mosis/you-never-kept-your-promise https://soundcloud.com/os_mosis/prohibited

sick beat man! drums are dope

sick tracks man! love that chill lo-fi sound in them!

the only headroom i care about is out the back of my strip joint nahmsaaayyynnnnnnnn zzzziip PEACE

Agree the midi controller foot pedal is going to hard to manage for pitch shifts. One of those large multi-button ones would probably work better than a wah type pedal. Flexinoodle, it's just one of those things that I think you have to put some thought into from a turntablist's perspective. The best way for me to explain it is to break the pitch changing down to a very basic level. You've got the "beep, ahhhhhhh" sample. A turntablist is going to want to flip that as many ways as possible. The "beep", being more musical, is going to have lots of noticeable variation when the pitch is changed and is going to sound best in a musical scale. Loading up some kind of DVS setup where you load different "beep" samples at different pitches is doable but not really as practical as being able to take that "beep" and be able to flip it into different notes using a turntable. Using a 16 levels MPC type of sampler to flip the pitch will work, but you can't scratch the sample then. A scratch DJ is goinig to want to be able to not only flip the pitches but also maintain control over the sample for scratching and bending and all the other stuff turntablists do. A pitch shifting turntable is just easiest way to get from point A to point B. Now, you can use your imagination to expand beyond what you can do with "beep". You can apply the above logic to any sample on wax or your DVS. You can have your scratch samples tuned to the underlying track. There are many more possibilities when making musical tracks that are composed directly off the turntable. We can argue all day over whether "scratch music" sounds good or is not the best way to make music but that's really just opinion. I could just as easily argue that sample music in general is stupid because the sounds can be played by "real musicians". The bottom line is that scratch DJs have legitimate and valid reasons for wanting pitch shifting turntables. It's not a pointless exercise.

It worked out pretty well for Lord Finesse (his mum and dad called him Lord Finesse even when he was a baby.. ) but not so great for Lord Haw Haw..

On a related note, I purchased LordJHouse.com awhile back (haven't done shit with it yet) as JHouse.com and other ideal variations were taken. Just wondering though, is it bad that: 1) This title hasn't been bestowed on me, I'm just runnin' around callin' myself Lord JHouse, muthafucker??? And 2) I'm American, but almost pure English according to my grandmama???

Wicked vibes man.

We are turntablists, not pad mashers. I have infinitely more control over a record than a sampler... Think about how much more stuff you can do in real time with a single note on a turntable than you can do with that single note on a sampler. Now if you have pitch control, you can multiply all of those possibilities by how many different pitches you have. Probably the most relevant example recently is Brace using both the controller one and fretless to do a bunch of different styles of melodies that would probably be tougher to achieve otherwise, and nearly impossible to re-create identically:

Love the part @ around 07.24 ish on the Untitled 16 one Nice chilled vibes all round dude...

Thanks gangster

If we are having a new title, it's gonna be MasterBeater surely ?

Hey DV fam, heres a neat version of my IDA set I wished I was able to perform at the finals (bloody adrenaline) Apart from wanting to get a neat take of the routine on the net I Included screen grabs of Traktor to highlight how I use RMX decks to build routines.

I might get a pair of these for my other half... Anything that can completely eliminate her foghorn of a voice barking instructions at me would be a real bonus!