Real Djing is not really relevent in indian context because mostly people just want to dance to their favorite or currently popular dance songs. So most of indian DJs just play the popular songs and change the song just by rotating the jog wheel. They don't use DJ console like an instrument. They are not musicians. They don't have that sense of rhythm. That is why many of them even don't mind using laptop's soundcard for DJing, which has a lot of delay. Of course DJing is more than that. Some commonly used DJ tools and effects are listed below.
as Basics, we know what for the DJ Controller is. Normally it is not just a Controller but also an external Sound Card with very low latency. That menas it reacts to the Actions on the console very fast, without delay. In fact it is a double Sound Card, one for the audience and one for the DJ himself. Both have individual volume controls. So the DJ can listen to different track than audience and make it Ready for them to listen, or match the beats and slowly fade it in.
The commonly used Tools are cue Points, fly loops, slicer, rolls (also called flux mode by native Instruments and bouncer by Apple), tremolo (exists in Ipad Apps but mostly not available in commonly used colsoles).
Normally it is useful to let your collection put in analyse mode in your DJ sofware which detects the tempo of songs and updates the mp3 tag information with BPM. You can actually see the mp3 files changed in file explorer. Then you can sort the collection in DJ software (like Serato) according to BPM and play the songs in increasing or decreasing order of tempo.
As 6/8 time signature is also very popular in indian context, but most DJ don't and can't differentiate between 4/4 and 6/8 songs. They just mix them as per demand. But it is recomended to keep 6/8 songs in a seperate folder, and play them seperately according to the mood.
as Basics, we know what for the DJ Controller is. Normally it is not just a Controller but also an external Sound Card with very low latency. That menas it reacts to the Actions on the console very fast, without delay. In fact it is a double Sound Card, one for the audience and one for the DJ himself. Both have individual volume controls. So the DJ can listen to different track than audience and make it Ready for them to listen, or match the beats and slowly fade it in.
The commonly used Tools are cue Points, fly loops, slicer, rolls (also called flux mode by native Instruments and bouncer by Apple), tremolo (exists in Ipad Apps but mostly not available in commonly used colsoles).
- Cue points (usually from 4 or 8 points) can used to trigger the song from some particular point without delay.
- fly loops can be used to put the song in a loop from the current playback point. the length of the loop can be altered in the count of beats.
- roll is used to repeat the current point in rhythm but in background song continous to play further. That means when you release the roll button, the song jumps to the normal playback point. the speed of roll can be altered in count of beats.
- Tremolo is not available in most of the consoles, but is a sound modulation with a square wave which switches the amplitude alternately between zero and full in count of beats. It is actually the best DJ effect, but only iPad offers it till now.
- Then there are other effects like phaser, flanger, low pass filter, high pass filter and so on which can be used anytime. Then there is a sampler to trigger samples.
Normally it is useful to let your collection put in analyse mode in your DJ sofware which detects the tempo of songs and updates the mp3 tag information with BPM. You can actually see the mp3 files changed in file explorer. Then you can sort the collection in DJ software (like Serato) according to BPM and play the songs in increasing or decreasing order of tempo.
As 6/8 time signature is also very popular in indian context, but most DJ don't and can't differentiate between 4/4 and 6/8 songs. They just mix them as per demand. But it is recomended to keep 6/8 songs in a seperate folder, and play them seperately according to the mood.