Video: DJing on an iPad

Ouch my ears hurt. That music is awful. I would have walked off the dancefloor during the tacky "DJ Kutski" intro.

Nice demo of the X1 though. Jury's out on the iPad.

this demonstrates the X1 more than it does touchOSC (no crossfader in touch OSC ????) plus, the music is godawful.

I saw James Zabiela in old street a month or so back and he used an iPad in his setup, although for a different reason. He was mixing the songs through standard CDJs, but then triggering samples using a program on the iPad. I would've gotten closer and taken a look but I was fairly intoxicated and I didn't actually realise at the time, I only saw the video my friend took afterwards, I'll try and get it off him.

iPads will never take over the DJ industry, they're just too small to display the right amount of parameters and to allow the user to adjust them at the same time. The touchscreen (say, if you had three iPads - two decks and a mixer) doesn't offer good feedback or any feel of vinyl or even the feel of the wheels on my Xponent. I prefer to use my turntables and mixer, but the Xponent is so much easier to carry around that I keep the turntables at home most of the time to have fun with. The Xponent offers more digital effects anyways. The thing is, that's already stretching it - scratching with anything digital? Forget it! And that's just the beginning of it. The iPad's audio out doesn't offer much so it's not really an all in one solution, and respectable DJ's such as myself are not content with the added technical aspect - just one more thing to have to troubleshoot if anything goes wrong! Forget the DJ industry application for the iPad, it won't happen because there's not really a market for it.