Toontrack EZdrummer
An Incredible Drum Sampler For DJ Productions And Computer Musicians.
- 7000 sound files at 16-bit / 44.1kHz
- Access to more than 8000 drum patterns with prelistening, quick browsing , drag and drop functionality.
- Same extensive layer depth on all drums and cymbals as in EZdrummer’s big brother - SUPERIOR.
- EZD ranges from entry level usability to pro handling
- Features multiple microphone control
It’s a virtual instrument, VST plugin into your host applicaton. The “default” drum beats are great, just for starters.
There is no end to what you can do with this software. And if you are tired of using drum machines that sound, well machine like, then this is it !
This is a sampler of real drummers (almost). Ezdrummer has good quality drums and very realistic sounds. But it eats up quite a bit of memory if you use more than one track, so be prepared for lots of ram, maybe about 250 megs for a track.
There are a lot of expansion kits for a whole lot of different styles even Jazz!
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Laptop DJ’ing
Laptop DJ
The key to running a successful software based DJ system, is to buy a dedicated laptop for the task, and to only run the operating system and DJ Software on there, and never allow it to run other applications or even connect to the internet.
This way the installation runs and remains clean and largely error free, will rarely have a corrupt file, and won’t get infiltrated or bogged down with several other applications.
This advice is given by DJ’s including me who have been using software and PC’s for many years, and have found this method of DJ’ing to be just as reliable as conventional DJ’ing from CD’s.
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With large laptop internal hard drives, you can store thousands of 320-bit MP3s though a lot of DJs use CD-quality WAV or AIFF files instead.
Video files take up much more space , so an external hard drive is necessary.
Sending video signals also uses more bandwidth than audio, so while a USB 2.0 drive is good for audio, FireWire 400 or FireWire 800 are better connections for video.
For video drives, pay attention to drive speed (7200 RPM is essential) and the chip set.
The 500 GB external drives have fallen to low prices now, and terabyte drives are coming down in price.
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Italian DJ Giuseppe Ottaviani playing live with two Apple Powerbooks running Ableton Live & Tracktor, two keyboards, two different mixers and an effects machine during Crasher Hyper Royale night at Gatecrasher One, Sheffield 2007, Picture by ©BrianOMahony.net .
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And here a more recent video
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