The future of DJing?

The future of DJing?

27 August, 2008 | 10.38AM

• Section: Music News Topics: Technology
• Written by: The Last Real DJ Alive

Feast your eyes on the world’s first touch-screen decks.

No, these aren’t the product of a major corporation like Vestax or Technics, they are in fact the brainchild of a design student in Dundee, Scotland.

Someone certainly has been eating their haggis, because this is a work of genius.

Most students have the same idea at the same points in their lives: “I’ll do something for my final year that I can use to get me a job”.

It usually ends up like rubbish, right?

Those boozy, druggy nights seem to get the better of the normal man.

Not Scott Hobbs.

If Beatportal had all the technology and tools to make touch screen decks, and a million years of time, we still couldn’t get halfway.

“With the TT you can see and touch the music,” Hobbs told the press.

“It shows where all the beats are, which gives you complete control of the song in a mix.”

Hobbs’ touch screen creations are supposed to be used in a traditional turntable configuration, with two of them connected to a mixer via a line-out.

A laptop harbours the MP3 or audio tracks that are then manipulated via the touch screen decks.

Hobbs even wrote the damn software: “I have plans to develop it to work with other DJ software,” he exclaimed.

“The TT would make an amazing Midi controller, as well as just a standalone unit, so DJs can use them as they wish.”

Check out this cat’s creations at www.scotthobbs.co.uk.

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