The gear and the thinking
Some of us think better with our hands on a knob than with a finger on glass.
What’s been interesting to me in both of these is the gap between wanting something and making it happen. When that gap gets shorter, the work starts to feel different.
Both are still ideas. I’m starting from how the work feels in the hands, then working out what would sit underneath.
DJ gear that drives a page
Touchscreens and mice don’t give much back to people who think with their hands. There’s a real satisfaction in turning a weighted knob or pushing a fader. A lot of us find our way by muscle memory, not only with a fingertip on glass.
Your DJ gear plugs straight into a page on your own computer. The jog wheel scrolls back through what you did, and the knobs and faders become the page’s own controls.
A set planner on your own computer
Looking at five thousand tracks can freeze you up. You don’t want a system to play the music for you. You want a sparring partner that knows your library well and suggests things from an angle you wouldn’t have tried.
A helper that runs on your own computer, with an AI model you keep there. It reads your track details on your machine and works out the transitions there, with no waiting and nothing sent away.