Of course in the previous posts on this topic (gestures) I’ve identified the basic atomic ideas in a piece of paper by observation of certain systems (multitouch and dj decks)… this was just a primary attemp to understand the gestures used among this approaches, but a more indepth look is mandatory when it comes to the gestures used by DJs in two objects:<\/p>\n
a) mixer <\/span><\/strong>(particularly knobs, switches, v-faders and x-fader*)<\/p>\n b) <\/strong>turntable <\/span>(needle position, record movement, power button, pitch slider, rpm)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n The next posts will give some references and studies that also looked on this “DJ gesture” topic.<\/p>\n Of course in the previous posts on this topic (gestures) I’ve identified the basic atomic ideas in a piece of paper by observation of certain systems (multitouch and dj decks)… this was just a primary attemp to understand the gestures used among this approaches, but a more indepth look is mandatory when it comes to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[61,207,204],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plopesmusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plopesmusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plopesmusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plopesmusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plopesmusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/plopesmusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3416,"href":"https:\/\/plopesmusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions\/3416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plopesmusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plopesmusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plopesmusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}*x<\/span>-fader<\/span><\/strong> is a typical slang for cross fader, which is just a regular fader that is usually positioned in the horizontal on the Dj mixers, alowing to mix the mixer’s channels. Usually, as far as scratching goes, the x-fader uses a logarithmic response curve to mimic an on-off effect – required for the techniques of turntablism\/scratching.<\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"