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I'm becoming interested in mixing and matching music for parties around town. Anyone can recommend anything that is fairly user friendly, and also free? Or if not free, easy to crack? Thank you and thank you. |
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PS I promise to change my avatar if I get any help. |
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Ableton Live? |
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i had a go with Ableton for the first time last night, i couldn't get the tracks to stay in time for longer than 16 bars... so i hit the bottle and gave up. i will conquer that bitch this weekend though, a Surgeon mix is my destiny. |
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DJ Software would be a stupid moniker for a DJ to have. |
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Haha. I actually am looking into "virtual DJ" right now and its proving to be very easy. Hell, I'm picking this up better than I did making music in FL. Ableton will be my next shot. |
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Middle-aged pub DJ's use Virtual DJ, it's great! |
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I aspire to be one of those myself ! |
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traktor, deckadance and ableton |
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in Ableton, you need to warp the tracks before they will mix well. in other words, you pre-pocess them - loadsa tutorials online about warping |
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once you get your head around ableton the beatmatching is a piece of cake (after about a year of consistent use i can properly warp a track in a couple minutes). the biggest tip i could give in that arena is to zoom in as far as it will go, find the first beat, then zoom out, check the beats to make sure they are somewhat in time, then find a really distinct beat later in the track and zoom all the way in again and match it to that track. obv. electronic tracks are easier to match than ones played live. start with some simple house tracks (or anything with a steady thump thump thump) then work your way from there. |
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Is latency important, because I noticed while pressing play on one track before making it fade in from the previous, they are slightly off, even though when I click with my mouse it seems on time. Perhaps I should speed up my computer somehow before trying this? |
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Yay new avatar. Good job guys. |
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It was all a scheme! I'm not really interested in DJ software actually! Thanks for helping me overcome my problem. |
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any tips for warping dancehall beats? |
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or dubstep in general |
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Not a clue. |
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you should check out Traktor, its not bad, i think it's made by Native instruments, and its not so exspensive, but i'd say its medium difficulty |
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Native Instruments is a really good company from my past experience with Reaktor. So I might give this a shot as well. I trust their stuff. |
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yeah i heard Traktor too, but that was ages ago, i don't know if its still the thing. i don't keep up. i think i'd have to be DJ Hunger Strike. |
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buy some turntables, there is no substitute for the real thing if you want some real enjoyment from it. I'm using Serato Scratch Live, it's given new life to my decks, best thing since sliced bread IMO. But when I'm not on the turntables I use Ableton. |
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i just discovered ive lost final scratch by upgrading traktor to 3.3 its a shitter. |
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are you using traktor/stanton scratch? I was gonna go with traktor because I'm familiar with it but was convinced to go with serato after seeing it in action. |
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yeah loves the traktor |
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nice, is that a torq midi controller? |
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long time since i've seen the stanton 500s got these babies today |
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those are next on my list, or the M44-7's |
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i was a diehard ortofan, but i'm shurefire shurefan now |
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HOT. Thinking about one of these when I'm on the PC When my mixtick starts to bleed I'm getting one of . |
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i like Rane. for the moment im not buying anymore gear,should be set for a good few weeks. :D |
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haha |
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holy cow!!! |
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hahaha, they're supposed to last forever, good way of testing |
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Ha! mothafucka gotta Skam frisbee. you are are my brethren. |
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i have 2 homeboy,other one is in my stash of greatness wrapped up like a new born baby. |
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I don't really want to ask but I'm having trouble finding any successful torrents. Any help on this tip? |
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****ABLETON USER HELP NEEDED!!**** i completed my first ever mix and the resulting file is 450mb! that's freakin huge for 45 mins, so my questions are thus, is that normal and if not how do you keep the file size down? should i just digout the old minidisc and record it or what? |
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for a wav that sounds about right, however, if you look in your ableton folder, there's gonna be a wav for every single tune you've imported, so if you notice you lost a bit of hd space, you might wanna delete some of those. |
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yeah did that already cheers. is there a better way than this or should i just record it via another source? |
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you can just encode the rendered wav to mp3, keep that and chuck the wav in the bin |
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righto. ta very much for the help. |
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after using ableton i was watching someone use traktor and thought why are you doing that? liek u can only play 2 tunes and the pitch is wrong and u hav 2 keep them in time with your hands and brain lol |
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4 tunes. |
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4???????????????? ok y thats much better, keeping 4 tunes in time lol |
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piss easy |
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Hanal, only just clicked that midi beast is the Allen & Heath. How are you using it in your setup with the decks going into the mixtick? |
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A&H for midi Vestax for vinyl and Final Scratch |
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I have the M44Gs and I love them! I like to use 1.5g pressure and 2-antiskate for general bump pressure up to 2.5g for scratching. Mine are mounted right at the front of the headshell. They look better without the needle protector though...take that thing off! |
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