How Does Timecode Vinyl Work? (Pt. 3)

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Aug 31, 2025, 1:07 PM UTC

Animats wrote: post #9

luma wrote: post #8

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I feel you're being dismissive but it maybe TFA would make more sense if the use case was more clear. The typical vinyl DJ setup is a pair of turntables, mixer, and PA. This adds a laptop and one or two of these encoded records to the mix (pun intended). Some signal routing between the laptop and the mixer allows your encoded records to work just like regular vinyl - you can have an analog record on one deck with dig…

I think of this as belonging to the same class as electric cars with software-simulated clutches and transmissions.[1] BYD makes a driver training car which is an EV with a totally simulated stick shift and clutch.)[2] The trainee can try grinding the gears and stalling the engine, but it's all a software-generated illusion. [1] https://driving.ca/column/motor-mouth/toyota-stickshift-ev-m... [2] https://blog.tmgps.or…

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Post by mb7733 » Sun, Aug 31, 2025, 1:11 PM UTC

Animats wrote: post #9

luma wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel you're being dismissive but it maybe TFA would make more sense if the use case was more clear. The typical vinyl DJ setup is a pair of turntables, mixer, and PA. This adds a laptop and one or two of these encoded records to the mix (pun intended). Some signal routing between the laptop and the mixer allows your encoded records to work just like regular vinyl - you can have an analog record on one deck with dig…

I think of this as belonging to the same class as electric cars with software-simulated clutches and transmissions.[1] BYD makes a driver training car which is an EV with a totally simulated stick shift and clutch.)[2] The trainee can try grinding the gears and stalling the engine, but it's all a software-generated illusion. [1] https://driving.ca/column/motor-mouth/toyota-stickshift-ev-m... [2] https://blog.tmgps.or…

That's not a good analogy. Mostly shows you don't understand the problem being solved.

It's not "faking" an analog system within a digital system. (If anything, that's what a full digital DJ set up is.) It's an adapter between the two.

As such a purist, would you prefer that digital music is never used? Or that digital music must only be used with digital controller? In that case DJs that use both types of music have to lug around two separate controllers.

Re: How Does Timecode Vinyl Work? (Pt. 3)

Re: How Does Timecode Vinyl Work? (Pt. 3)