Dj Soops NeoSoul: Pioneer DDJS1 with a Macbook Pro or Windows laptop?

Thursday, 15 December 2011

Pioneer DDJS1 with a Macbook Pro or Windows laptop?

I recently swapped out my Sony Vaio (2.2GHZ Core 2 Duo, 4GB Ram) for a Macbook Pro (2.4GHZ Core 2 Duo, 3GB Ram) as I thought it was time to upgrade. Now, don’t get me wrong, the Sony vaio has held it down since I bought the DDJS1 9 Months ago and I have done quite a few parties with no problems or issues whatsoever. The only thing I would say, is that I didn’t feel 100% confident in putting the Sony vaio under pressure in a club/party environment (using effects, loops and scratching all at the same time). So it was time to switch, and I can really see what all the noise is about, when it comes to these Mac’s. This thing is stable as hell!! I put this machine under pressure and it yawned back at me. I even had a few windows open (Internet, Word and Photoshop) and the Mac still didn’t show signs of fatigue, my Sony vaio would have been coughing up a lung by then. At the end of the day, I guess your budget determines what you’re going to DJ with and these Macs are definitely not cheap (even the used ones!). But I just think that if I’m going to be solely reliant on a laptop when I’m DJing in public, I need to be 100% or 99.9% certain it’s going to be stable.

Heres a quick video I did:

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trav17 December 2011 22:30
you ever tried the the ns6
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Funk Erdinç1 February 2012 10:00
Cool video Soops, also a nice smooth flavour, makes me want to buy the S1 even more.
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What is Neo-Soul?

Neo soul (also known as nu soul) is a musical genre of the late 1990s and early 2000s that fuses contemporary R&B, 1970s style soul, classical music, jazz, and elements of alternative-hip hop. It is the third major sub-genre of contemporary R&B, after the new jack swing of the late 1980s to early/mid 1990s and the hip hop soul of the mid to late 1990s. The "neo soul" term, originated by Kedar Massenburg of Motown Records in the late-1990s, is sometimes looked upon with disdain as nothing more than a marketing specialization of contemporary R&B instead of an honest revival of soul music. This is because most of the people who record in the genre and listen to it tend to be anti-mainstream preferring that the music favor underground credibility and soulfulness over mainstream popularity.

Early works

The genre is considered to have originated with the work of Raphael Saadiq's band Tony! Toni! Toné! in the mid-1990s, but the term began to surface after the release of singer Joi's debut album Pendulum Vibe which contained elements of early 70s style arrangements along with Rock style elements. it resurfaced with D'Angelo's 1995 LP Brown Sugar. Brown Sugar featured elements of classic soul, inspired by artists such as Stevie Wonder and Donny Hathaway (both keyboardists, as is D'Angelo), that had not been regularly seen in modern African-American mainstream music since the mid-1980s. Also, in 1995 came the work of a duo called Groove Theory, which included the members Amel Larrieux, the singer and Bryce Wilson, the rapper/singer/producer/actor. In 1997, Motown artist Erykah Badu released her debut LP, Baduizm, the success of which paved the way for new Motown chief Kedar Massenburg to shift the direction of much of the company's output towards Badu's style, which he dubbed neo-soul. The first soul revival artist to make a major impact on the mainstream was Lauryn Hill, whose 1998 The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill LP was a critical and commercial smash and garnered five Grammy Awards.

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http://www.paxstereo.tv/neosoul.htm

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Pioneer DDJS1 with a Macbook Pro or Windows laptop?

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