Played the 1st hour with mp3s and the last 30 minutes live. Got to CRANK the sound for a couple hundred people outside. The 800 delivered perfectly - it was a nice change of pace and I landed another DJ 2 hour gig from it Wow - it sure is fun to play LOUD for a change.

Hi Zuki,

I've done a couple of similar gigs lately. It really opens up a whole new horizon. Rock on!

Joe

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Songman55
Joe Ayala

I have a very similar outdoor gig over the holiday...the first night I do my typical (lately) type of gig..a combination of DJ-ing and playing my G70..The following night for the same group..I perform with my band...Just about as diverse as it can be for this 2 day advent..

BTW, all my mp3's midi's and wav's are on my Ketron MidJay. I wouldn't leave home without it.

Joe

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Songman55
Joe Ayala

Joe,
I was wondering if you can tell me more about using the Midjay for DJing. I've done about a dozen weddings, playing the PA800 and midi accordion for cocktails and dinner and DJ equipment for dance music.
How do you load the Wave files into the Midjay? I have all of my wave files and mp3's on i-tunes and it's easy to burn disks from i-tunes but I don't know how to get the files into the Midjay.
How do you arrange the files in the Midjay for quick continous plays etc? Thanks.
Ciao,
Jerry

The mp3's that most of you play, do you download them from the internet (Limewire), or do you buy them?

The ones that I use are all downloaded from the internet. Some of them sound good and some seem to have some distortion on them.

there is a great little program called mp3 gain it really cleans up the mp3 files, takes out the distortion. And will do a batch of files in a folder or even a whole hard drive.

"Tired of reaching for your volume knob every time your mp3 player changes to a new song?
MP3Gain analyzes and adjusts mp3 files so that they have the same volume."

"MP3Gain does not just do peak normalization, as many normalizers do. Instead, it does some statistical analysis to determine how loud the file actually sounds to the human ear.
Also, the changes MP3Gain makes are completely lossless. There is no quality lost in the change because the program adjusts the mp3 file directly, without decoding and re-encoding."
http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/

Did I mention it's free

[This message has been edited by mikeathome1 (edited 05-22-2008).]

mideathome1

Thanks for posting MP3 Gain. That's terrific.
Just what I needed.

Jerry,
You just plug the USB cable from PC to Midjay. The MJ appears as an external drive for the PC. Just copy the files to the appropriate folders.
DonM

If there is actual distortion in the MP3, as opposed to it just being louder or quieter, but still clean, MP3 Gain won't be able to help that.

Simply search again for the song, try to download a different (preferably higher bit-rate!) version of it, and see if someone else did a better job of ripping it... (if you are comfortable with the piracy )

I've noticed fluttering and distortion when the pitch is changed. I wonder if that can be corrected ?

MP3 gain will tell you if there is clipping present and let you remove it. It solved 98% of my distortion problems.
Select the option don't clip when doing track gain.

Ya sometimes it's just a bad recording that needs to be replaced.

WTG Zuki...Mix it up baby

Jerry, Don already covered it. It's real easy to download files from the computer to the MidJay.

Joe

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Songman55
Joe Ayala

Last night I had the SD5, Midjay and PC all hooked together. I could take a pattern from the Midjay, which appears as an external drive to the PC, and load it onto the hard drive of the SD5 without ever saving it to the PC.
I was able to control the MJ from the SD5, though I can't see a benefit for that unless you want to incorporate loops or WAVs with the SD5 style.
Just experimenting.
DonM

DonM,
Please give me your opinion as to if I would be better with a Midjay instead of a Sd3 module? I have keyboards already. In another post you suggested the Midjay as a add on to my setup.

Please tell me this based on wanting to add it to my Tyros 2 or PA2XPRO.

Thanks,
Lee

Don and Joe,
It looks like I may have run into the proprietary i-tunes format problems. The Midjay won’t read the files. When I attempt to convert the files to mp3’s, it actually converts to the mp4 format that the Midjay won’t read. My Denon disc player reads all formats automatically
Ciao,
Jerry

iTunes can read MP3 and AAC formats. But if you bought the tunes from the iTunes store, they will be PROTECTED AAC (which you can't convert to MP3 with iTunes).

Look inside the iTunes Music folder for the actual files, and see what kind of file they are...

If they are not protected, Quicktime will convert them to MP3 for you, at least.

Thanks Diki. Almost everything I have is from i-tunes and protected. I'm sure by now, someone has come up with a conversion program to make the i-tunes files convert to a general standard for use with the Midjay et al - I just haven't found it yet.
Ciao,
Jerry

I was just checking my mp3's on my laptop with a pair of headphones. I previously stated that some of them were distorted, well it seems that none of them are distorted, at least the ones I checked.
On a gig I connect my laptop the my PSR3000 which goes into my amp which goes into my speakers. That's when they sound distorted.
I tried adjusting the volume on the laptop and my 3000 and they're still coming out distorted.
Would anyone know why this is happening?

Did you try to run one of the distorted ones through MP3 gain? Maybe the signal is just too hot?
Did you try running the distorted ones through just a mixer and an amp, in other words leave the 3000 out of the mix and see if that helps.
Are all your mp3s acting that way or just some?
I would see what the gain is on the ones that aren't distorted as compared to the gain on the ones that are.
MP3 gain will tell you if there is clipping present and let you remove it.
Select the option don't clip when doing track gain.
I'm not an mp3 gain "fanatic" and, of course, it won't solve all problems, but I'd check that first.

I did a job last night and there was no distortion at all on none of the mp3's. The only thing I did different was I didn't use my laptop output booster. I have this little output booster that I bought at Radio Shack that you plug into the output of the laptop, which happens to be the headphone output, that gives a little boost to the output of the computer.
On my next gig I'll try using it again and if I get distortion I'll know that that's the problem.
I'll keep you posted.

Thanks.