Either way, a laptop was essential to my set-up. So I had a big festival performance a month ago, and leading up to it the unthinkable happened: My MacBook Pro Retina display cracked, so I didn’t have a laptop to DJ with. I would’ve been game to use a pair of CDJs, except that I was performing a few songs live with a vocalist and we needed Stems playback and control, so I needed my Traktor Kontrol S8, or the Kontrol D2 at the very least. What follows is a warts-and-all recount of what can happen when you do…) (Spoiler: You should never ever try to switch laptops days before a gig, let alone an entire operating system. I committed one of the biggest I’ve ever made recently, and I wanted to share it with you. So it’s a bit embarrassing when we end up making massive, gig-stopping errors ourselves. OK, so here at Digital DJ Tips, we teach all the best practices in DJing to help you get the most out of your digital DJ gear and avoid the pitfalls that await the unwary. Find out what and how this happened in this article…
I fell into a trap that meant not only could I not use my laptop to DJ… but even a reboot couldn’t help me.
