{"id":752,"date":"2015-05-01T21:19:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T21:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5722.temp.domains\/~audioor1\/djs-and-the-sync-button-right-or-wrong-2\/"},"modified":"2018-12-11T18:03:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T18:03:01","slug":"djs-and-sync-button-right-or-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/audioordeal.co.uk\/djs-and-sync-button-right-or-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"DJs and the Sync Button – Right or Wrong?"},"content":{"rendered":"
For those of you that don’t know, the art of DJing is essentially moving from one song to the other to create a constant flow. It can be as simple or as complicated as that. One of the main tools is called “beatmatching” the songs, this is where you play the two songs at the same speed so the beats don’t clash and it sounds like a trainwreck. DJs are able to beatmatch by controlling the speed of both songs so that they match and can then be mixed, traditionally with turntables or CDJs, this had to be done manually with a pitch slider, nowadays however, there is the technology for software to analyse the tracks and at the push of a button (sync), the songs are in time.<\/div>\n
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This has caused division in the DJ industry as to whether the sync button means people can really call themselves DJs if that is all they use to get the songs in time. It makes sense, people spend years learning a tricky skill and then the newer DJs are able to come and take their gigs while letting the computer do the work. <\/div>\n
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It should be said however, the end result to the audience will always be the same. Whether from a well executed manual beatmatch or from a computer process, the music stays in time and everyone keeps dancing.<\/div>\n