The video just proves that you can have all the flashy tech in the world, but it still wont make you a good DJ.

The problem is that there are already better ways of doing the same thing, be it actual records or any of the digital hybrid solutions.

The turntablist crowd will be let down I’m sure by the latency of the touch screen and the lack of precise control over the record.

The techno/house/dnb crowd have slightly different needs in manipulating the record, mostly nudges to keep them in sync and you dont *need* a touchscreen for that if you’re playing digitally.

However, for traditional DJs, this is not particularly great. One of the greatest things about vinyl is you get tactile feedback. For instance, you can drag your finger on the edge of the vinyl to slow down the playback–and you can feel this without looking! Many DJs won’t move to CD decks because of this. The reason why CD decks (since the first, the Pioneer CDJ-1000) have been trying to emulate the vinyl feel is to give back some of that feedback to the DJ.

I used to DJ (trance, not hip-hop/scratching/etc), and I’ve used vinyl, cd decks, and hybrid solutions like finalscratch. Vinyl is expensive, doesn’t hold much audio, and is bulky. CDs are great, but they don’t give you the same kind of tactile feedback as vinyl does. The only negative of finalscratch/etc is that the playback is still affected by bumping the table, etc.