Comments on: Numark Scratch Deck Preview http://hiphopproduction.com/production/numark-scratch-deck-preview/ Beats, videos, tutorials: Every aspect of Hip Hop Production can be found here. Digital to Analog, Samples to Synths. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:31:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: admin http://hiphopproduction.com/production/numark-scratch-deck-preview/#comment-48 admin Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:14:42 +0000 http://hiphopproduction.com/?p=291#comment-48 Emir: I agree 100%, but at the same time I think this is a step in the right direction - for example, even when the first Tony Hawk came out on Playstation, there was a less popular, and much harder game called <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/ps/sports/thrasherskateanddestroy/index.html" rel="nofollow">Thrasher: Skate or Die</a>, which was more focused on the actual techniques. This sort of evolved into the newer games, Skate and Skate 2. There is of course one huge difference between this and Tony Hawk - in any sports game, you are just translating real world skills into pressing buttons (and swinging your arms around, if you have a wii). Even Guitar Hero has a better alternative, called <a href="http://www.guitarrising.com/" rel="nofollow">Guitar Rising</a>, which uses a real (your) guitar as the input. A turntable and drum machine are different though. Imagine being able to play this game, or even go through tutorials by using pads, or a turntable. Both of these things can be translated into input devices easily. I'm thinking in time (5-10 years), you could release an interactive album, where you can play along with a keyboard, drum machine, mic, mouse, whatever. I see your point, that it will create thousands more myspace pages filled with bad music, but I don't think a game will be to blame for that. Emir:
I agree 100%, but at the same time I think this is a step in the right direction – for example, even when the first Tony Hawk came out on Playstation, there was a less popular, and much harder game called Thrasher: Skate or Die, which was more focused on the actual techniques. This sort of evolved into the newer games, Skate and Skate 2.

There is of course one huge difference between this and Tony Hawk – in any sports game, you are just translating real world skills into pressing buttons (and swinging your arms around, if you have a wii). Even Guitar Hero has a better alternative, called Guitar Rising, which uses a real (your) guitar as the input. A turntable and drum machine are different though. Imagine being able to play this game, or even go through tutorials by using pads, or a turntable. Both of these things can be translated into input devices easily.

I’m thinking in time (5-10 years), you could release an interactive album, where you can play along with a keyboard, drum machine, mic, mouse, whatever.

I see your point, that it will create thousands more myspace pages filled with bad music, but I don’t think a game will be to blame for that.

]]> By: DJ Emir http://hiphopproduction.com/production/numark-scratch-deck-preview/#comment-47 DJ Emir Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:30:53 +0000 http://hiphopproduction.com/?p=291#comment-47 It looks sorta cool, but there should be an actual section of the game focused not so much on the drum pads as actually learning t scratch by teaching the actual scratch paterns with the clicks and record control hand movements. Then theres the issue that is happening too often with today's youth... yes it's good to learn through games but these days, games is all they do. They sit and play Tony Hawk Skateboarding games rather than actually go out and skateboard, they play Guitar Hero and Rock band rather than learn how to play the actual instruments. With Serato and other vinyl emmulation programs and CDJs there are already a ton of DJs surfacing in the industry that lack the real knowledge and real control necessary to be great DJs. Now with the game there are going to be even more fake DJs that think they can do something and when they try it live it's probably still going to be a disaster, there is a difference between reality and VIRTUAL REALITY. Something that is virtual is fake, meaning yeah they can rock the crowd on the video game, but in real life they will most likely bomb. It's like the south park episode of "Guitar Queero" Randy pulls out a real guitar and rocks the same song much better live but the kids are still only interested in the game version LOL. Hopefully this will inspire some great DJs of tomorrow rather than make some DJs lazy. - DJ Emir www.djemir.com Real DJs Do Real Things <a href="http://www.djemir.com" rel="nofollow">DJ Emir</a> <a href="http://www.djemir.com" rel="nofollow">mixtapes</a> It looks sorta cool, but there should be an actual section of the game focused not so much on the drum pads as actually learning t scratch by teaching the actual scratch paterns with the clicks and record control hand movements.

Then theres the issue that is happening too often with today’s youth… yes it’s good to learn through games but these days, games is all they do. They sit and play Tony Hawk Skateboarding games rather than actually go out and skateboard, they play Guitar Hero and Rock band rather than learn how to play the actual instruments. With Serato and other vinyl emmulation programs and CDJs there are already a ton of DJs surfacing in the industry that lack the real knowledge and real control necessary to be great DJs. Now with the game there are going to be even more fake DJs that think they can do something and when they try it live it’s probably still going to be a disaster, there is a difference between reality and VIRTUAL REALITY. Something that is virtual is fake, meaning yeah they can rock the crowd on the video game, but in real life they will most likely bomb. It’s like the south park episode of “Guitar Queero” Randy pulls out a real guitar and rocks the same song much better live but the kids are still only interested in the game version LOL.

Hopefully this will inspire some great DJs of tomorrow rather than make some DJs lazy.

- DJ Emir
http://www.djemir.com
Real DJs Do Real Things

DJ Emir
mixtapes

]]> By: Dutch http://hiphopproduction.com/production/numark-scratch-deck-preview/#comment-46 Dutch Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:01:16 +0000 http://hiphopproduction.com/?p=291#comment-46 "Giving your hands the 'true feel' of Hip-Hop." WOW. Still looks cool though, I hope it doesn't cost a fortune. As far as production goes how exactly does it help you make beats? “Giving your hands the ‘true feel’ of Hip-Hop.”

WOW.

Still looks cool though, I hope it doesn’t cost a fortune. As far as production goes how exactly does it help you make beats?

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