The Smooth DJ

Digital DJing Lecture 4: Using non-MIDI controllers and designing your own Instruments

Another great class - we covered a lot of new stuff today - DJing with Wii Drums, game controllers and iPhones. The tools and techniques covered were very technical and we don't expect you to master them right away. We just scratched the surface and it will take some time for you to get comfortable with it. For now, work through the tutorials posted on the download sites (TouchOSC and junXion). If you have a Mac, you already have Quartz Composer (QC) on your machine. Here is the QC user guide from Apple - remember, it's built for video (which we'll cover later), but you can also output MIDI signals. And keep working on those mashups! They are sounding really good.