Serato vs. Ableton or BOTH?

[quote quote="elektrodisiac":s2km88l5]im gonna throw a generic one out there? theres pros and cons for both. pulling of a live show of genuine mashups is a pretty difficult. Im thinking what of the possibility of using the live element of serato wth a combination of your preset mashups from ableton with standard tracks/instrumentals/acapellas to keep a live set going???

comments?

could be cool, could be overload. im not proficent with ableton at all yet, so im wondering, am i jumping the gun and ableton can do everything that my heat desires? i think it is the superhero program, but i do miss the turntables. Dont miss carrying them. Is the grass always greener?

i heard of guys using primarily serato live and accenting with ableton. but what about scratching with ableton direct feed?[/quote:s2km88l5]

Serato all the way … that alone already pushed the boundaries of turntablism to the next level. Accenting with ableton would either be too much (unless you have 3 or better yet, 4 arms) ….. or for someone to mess around with who can’t DJ yet.

elektrodisiac wrote:

but can you multi layer tracks on the fly with serato? my goal is mashup live, if that is even humanly possible with one set of arms

Of course it’s possible. You need to prepare (warp) all your tracks in Ableton first though, and at least have an idea of what you want to play… what will keep your crowd rocking. In that the only thing that helps unfortunately is the actual experience of being a Dj.

And since you’re only using one channel for your laptop which runs multi channels through Ableton, you can hook up a turntable for scratching on the second channel of even a small 2-channel mixer… or rewire through Ableton. I’m using M-Audio’s Torq instead of Serato, but I should’ve gone with Serato instead.

The main thing is to have an idea of what you want to play before you get to the gig… oh, and a MIDI controller helps too.

This topic (as great as it is) is really borderline being shoved in ‘AudioChat’

As yet I’m undecided.