DJ Sara cuts better than you, and on a controller too

DJ Sara once again steps up to the scratch plate to demonstrate skills beyond her years. But this time, it's on a Reloop Beatpad 2 controller with djay Pro.

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DJ Sara is no stranger to these pages. We’ve followed the progress of her and her younger brother Ryusei (check them out aged 8 and 5). Now having established that she can school a great many of us on turntables, she’s busting out her skills on the Reloop Beatpad 2 with algoriddim djay Pro for Mac.

There’s nothing more to add. It’s just pure skill driving technology that has matured and can smash a solid performance. Well done DJ Sara, and well done Reloop and Algoriddim for working hard on such a great combination of hardware and software.

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Mark Settle
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The old Editor of DJWORX - you can now find Mark at WORXLAB

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    • I bought an S2 mk2 the other day for travelling, and trying to scratch on it is taking some real adjustment… but then Sara’s better on the reloop than I am on vinyl anyway… ;)

    • So you haven’t seen all videos dude! You should have seen DJ Shortkut killin’ it too! It’s all about training. This is what i will do both on my turntables and controllers. Several rigs, one man = many skillz to flex!!!

  6. Hey Mark have you done a review of this software, I haven’t paid much attention to it, but from what I read Algoriddim has Flexible beatgrids?
    There was no distortion in the sound. And a very quick response with the cues and such, I’m no pro, and terrible at scratching. But too me that was not typical of a controller and digital scratch, mainly because it sounded so clear?
    But anyway amazing skills and sound quality.

  8. Actually Sara can’t cut better than me so stop using that played out linkbait blog post title of “ABC IS BETTER THAN YOU AT XYZ SO WATCH THIS VIDEO RIGHT NOW YOU PIECE OF $#17!”

      • DjCity : ” 4 Year Old Boy Plays Piano Better Than Any Master”
        DjCity : “This 7 year old dances hip hop better then most adults”

        for example

    • she can’t cut better than me either, not even when she’s 20 but give the poor kid a break, she struggled a lifetime to collect all those records behind her, i would say she “paid her deuce”

      • This comment was not even about her. DJSara is amaaaaaaaaazing. I just can’t stand beyond belief tech blog posts that constantly use that plaid out linkbait headline “jon / Jane doe is better than you” or ” J/J Doe is better at x than you at anything you have ever done” so watch this clip! I see that on tech blogs literally once or twice a week. Just make a headline like “watch DJ Sara crush it on a controller” instead of clickbait that tries to make your audience feel like ish about themselves.

        • Clickbait or linkbait headlines are written in such a way that that they offer just enough words to make people curious enough to click with outrageous promises, but never gives the complete story. And they generally link to sites blathered in ads, popups, and other nefarious tracking where you’re encouraged to share on social media or even sign up before viewing content.

          I might be wrong, but in 13 years, I don’t think we’ve every run a listicle. But I can however write clickbait headline like a boss:

          • Young girl steps up to DJ — what happens next will change your life
          • You won’t believe what happened when this teen has a go at DJing
          • This child will make you rethink your whole DJ life
          • 3 reasons why this girl is better than you at DJing
          • You can be as good as this child DJ with this one cool gadget
          • The one thing you need to scratch digital music better than a pro

          With every one of those headlines, there are yawning gaps in information designed to get you to click.

          The original headline however tells the complete story. DJ Sara (a well known child scratch prodigy) is scratching a controller, and for a great many readers, she can scratch better then them. It’s positively bursting at the seams with facts. It might not speak to everyone directly, but when does anything that’s ever been posted in the history of writing ever?

          The “better than you” part is pure literary whimsy, and simply implies the skill level being used with technology often thought not capable of such things. Hell the headline even rhymes. You don’t get that anywhere else. :)

        • i don’t think she’s amazing actually, but better than most female DJs i have seen, i was just being sarcastic

          now wouldnt it be great if we saw her cut on the upcoming Technics 1200G…that would blow any controller out of the box

        • Not clickbait. Clickbait is actually something we all fall for because it sounds interesting, but then pop ups and sometimes even nasty cpu clogging background stuff makes it almost hard to even read or look at. Not to mention titles like “These young acters died too young” with a picture of Wolverine.
          That’s clickbait.

      • Sure! Let’s all regress to the 90s and repeat what thousands of people have already mastered, when all this wonderful technology out there could allow us to do future shit no one’s ever done. Righto! I’m selling my laptops, 3D cameras, motion sensors and controllers. This shit ain’t #realDJing. LOL

    • Are we? I still think it’s dumb. Regardless if Sara or Shortkut and whatever experienced tablist can cut on one.
      I used a Pioneer ddjsx on the weekend, my cuts did not correlate to what I do on a regular turntable. I’m assuming there is a learning curve which I could probably overcome after some time.
      But in no damn way am I going to choose ‘good enough’ cuts on a controller over the real deal.

      • Sounds like you are not good enough. This lady here seems to be getting on just fine. So for you, I’d stick to turntables. But everyone else is getting along just fine. You know what they say about blaming equipment?

        • Sara is a very accomplished tablist who started a long time ago. Along with Shortkut. But last time I checked Shortkut isn’t using a controller.

          I do blame the ddjsx for not having moving platters and not having the function to play vinyl. It’s just DUMB!

          Scratching on a controller is dumb if you don’t have the fundamentals which started on a turntable. You don’t learn to scratch on a controller, you learn to scratch on a turntable and then you scratch on a controller.

          If you don’t agree with this please show me proof that a newb can excel and be an accomplished ‘scratcher’ aka turntablist/not controllerist learning on a controller (not a Numark) vs someone who has learned on a turntable.

          • I can’t argue against your points. I started out on vinyl. :) Even the main controller I have now has moving platters. There’s still work to do, because my last unit (Denon 3900) suffered from sticker drift. Not bad… but enough to notice if you are scratching the same sample for more than a few bars. My Numark NS7III is better and good enough for my talent level.

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