Re: [acid-jazz] Scratching digitally (from New York Times)

From: Jason Witherspoon (arzachel@speakeasy.org)
Date: Wed Dec 04 2002 - 01:48:02 CET

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    At 4:28 PM -0800 12/3/02, Ridu Moya wrote:
    >Among a whole lot of other things, it's the difference between actual talent
    >with using vinyl...and reading the User's manual on the other.
    >
    >Love,
    >Ridu

    This is almost exactly like all those "the turntable isn't an
    instrument" arguments made by guys selling guitars at your local
    music shop.

    There's no talent to setting live loops? Manipulating those live
    loops once set? Beatmatching? (identical skill to vinyl, unless
    you're using one of those auto-beatmatchers, which are pretty rare)
    "Scratching" on a CDJ1000 via the big jog wheel?

    You guys *are* die-hard romantics-- 

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