The Future of DJ Kit Is No Laptop!

0:00 Technology and how it's changed

Alright guys, so, let's have a talk about technology and how it's changed the way we DJ. Let's go back 20, 30, well actually 30 years. All you had was vinyl turntables. Alright, yeah, CDs were just about, they were there, but not many people used them.

1:08 It may not happen for six months

10, 12, 15 years, laptop, and everyone jumped on the bandwagon there. They thought it's the best thing since sliced bread, but let me put this little thought into your mind. Where there's a weak link, technology tries to get rid of that weak link so you don't have that break or the possibility of that break. Now, if you think about a controller and a laptop, there has to be some form of connectivity and you're relying on the controller working and the laptop working. And that little bit, whatever it is in the middle joining the two together being completely fail-safe. But of course as we all know as DJs laptops fail. There are just, there's always something, there seems to be something, an update or a

Crash or a loss of a file or it just freezes. Now you can't have that in a gig. You can't all of a sudden be halfway through a gig and have the laptop freeze and just stand there going well and say it's not my fault, in a way it is because you have the choice to use that laptop and plug it in. So this is what I can see happening now at the moment we're in April 2018. It may not happen for six months. It may not actually happen for three or four years, but I am pretty sure the way technology is moving forward. It's going to happen. We will get to the stage where there will be all controllers, not just one, two, three, but everyone will have a controller with no laptop. Everything will be inside that box that you need.

2:11 We're sort of getting there with some of the bits of kit

There will be SSDs, lots of them maybe or two or three at least a terabyte each. There will be a big touchscreen. There will be connectivity. There will be Bluetooth. There will be wireless, but there will be no need to have an external source with all the information because what needs to happen? And I'm sure what will happen is that weakest link will disappear. So when you turn up to an event, where you go, that is it. Now we're sort of getting there with some of the bits of kit. I have that right in front of me with the RX from Pioneer, RX1 now the RX2. Okay, you can still use a laptop with it, but you can also plug in CD players. Now they could fail, but you can also plug in your small thumb drive, also known as a stick drive.

So, you know, we're breaking down all of these ways how it can fall apart to something that should be theoretically fail-safe. So take my advice and just remember this video because I am adamant in the not so distant future, you will turn up with a controller that will do everything. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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