Ableton Live DJs

I heard that Paul van Dyk uses 3 laptops running LiVE when DJing, quite interesting isn’t it

I’m still a Cubase addict tho, but rumour says that I gonna have a look on Logic too in the future hehe, that was very off-topic I know

I have Ableton Live Lite 4 and it’s colorful Steinberg Remix counterpart. the concept seems simple enough, but I haven’t gotten anything worth listening to out of it. anyone up for explaining some good uses of it a bit? Personally, I like doing my mixing on ACID or Mixmeister beforehand and work from there. Ableton Lite came with my M-Audio MobilePRE USB card. I’ve tried it, but I’m not about to blow $400 on a program that I still haven’t found worthwhile to me…Any help from the Ableton swear-byers?

[quote quote="rishi":1jrwncwt]..

I have been using Ableton to do remixes and absolutely love it! Like Teejay, I have just got an Ozonic, for greater midi control of faders, and effects etc.

I am interested in the DJ’ing aspect but dont really see that it is that simple. Where can I get some tips? I understand warping but its the cueing and visibility of EQ’s etc that I dont like so much.[/quote:1jrwncwt]

Ableton Live 5.0.3 + Ozonic and a plethora of quality vsti + samplecdz is my set up. Been with Ableton Live since version 3 and the Ozonic simply replaced an ageing Evolution MK-149 midi controller which like any good woman was completely knobless..

Dj’ing (well having a go at emulating would could be described as a mix from my bedroom) is something that I’ve been doing in between finsihing tunes and starting new ideas.. it’s a really nice welcome break from just dealing with the songs side of things it really is.

You asked for help/info. but really shy of saying just check out aswell as reading and experimenting yorself by following the “Dj’ing with Live” Walkthrough provided I can’t really comment as i’m pretty fresh to it all myself.

Be sure to let us know though if you find some really cool tips ok?

acapella.

[quote:3nns793k]Good spot immoralist.

I too bought that from WHSmith’s about a month ago and I too was very interested in having this nicely laid out and formatted guide . Always a nice way to just see if there’s anything in there that we could all just pick up and use.

I was interested in the Dj’ing article in Ableton Live 5. But overall it was more for a live dj mix environment which was cool but what I was interested in more was the recording of it and tweeking from there on in.

Got there in the end though – I just took time out weekend just past and managed to come up with quite a stonker of a mix.

If anyone’s interested you can grab it . It’ll will be aired on in a couple of weeks time and it will be forever engraved over on website as part of a feature mix for my house music project, [/quote:3nns793k]

Live 5.2 brings native support for Apple’s new Intel-Macs. Live 5.2 will be in beta as soon as the new Intel Core Duo-equipped MacBook Pro is available and is expected to be released in February. Early MacBook Pro buyers will be able to run Live immediately and enjoy substantially higher audio performance than on today’s fastest Mac notebook.

Live 6, scheduled for release in Q3, will bring – among other features yet to be disclosed – support for multi-core/multi-processor architectures, to the benefit of both Windows and Mac OS users. This feature will bring users of Intel Core Duo-equipped Macs another large increase in audio performance, and Windows users will be able to fully exploit the speedup potential of the various available multi-core/multi-processor hardware solutions the market offers.

Live 5.2 is expected to be available, as a download, in February 2006.

I’m a LapJock, I have a fairly regular night here in Vancouver at the Bayside Lounge (Denman & Davie) on the second and last friday of every month (not the 10th of Feb tho’), my friend Andrew (who spins vinyl) is the resident and plays every friday, deep, dub and tech house, with lashings of funk (would love to play more electro/tech but it’s a lounge )
I used to spin CD’s about 8 years ago, then focused on production for the last 8 years and just started LapJocking at my wife’s birthday in September, now I play out at least three nights a month (if my head can take it) and getting $$ too (icing on the cake, almost covers what I spend on music)
Also having more fun with music than I’ve had for a long time, not beating my head against production problems (lazy) and performing DJ style carries way less stress than doing Live PA does for sure.

Nice Thread
Peace
Luke

PS to the vinyl purists, of all the DJ’s I know (many) the only ones who have ever said anything but "nice tune’s… good set" are the ones with nothing going on, all the DJ’s I have any respect for have given respect.
it’s not DJing you’re right I Like LapJock personally or Laptop DJ if you must, but give respect where respect is due, it’s about the music not what you use to play it.

just got ableton a few weeks back.. Still trying to learn it propperly when i have time

i’m an ableton convert 100% – sold all me vinyl to concentrate on it.

i still use a cdj1000 as well but thats mainly for scratchin effects, pella’s and intro’s etc.

i use faderfox controllers (mk1 LX1 and LV1), and efx1000 and efx500 and a djm1000 mixer, sometimes use a codanova vmx to trigger ableton effects but use the efx1000 more now.

the stuff you can do amazes me and if you spend time gettin it right, it sounds awesome in a club…………

[quote quote="Lide01":2t8ly5w4]I now own Live about a year. First i really liked live but was not able to work fine with this prog on stage without a controller. After checking the market i didn´t find any controller that fits my needs. So I decided to create my own controller. Here you can see it:

The controller is created out of a kit of several modules that can bought/seen on the midibox.org website. By the way that is a great site too!

No that i can control all my functions i need via midi it really kicks ass on stage! The last 3 months i worked on a set for a live gig and with my controller this works definitely fine for on-stage-remixing!

Greetz, Lide[/quote:2t8ly5w4]

DAAAAAAAAM Son… that is the business right there…

If you don’t mind me asking, how long did it take you build that controller & what are the main expenses????

I’ve been using Live for a little over 8 months now & just started to incorporate it into my deejaying with an UC-33e & a Trigger Finger…. but that is an adaptation on what i would really like to do… which is have total control one one midi output which will help me start performing my own stuff live….

BTW… what kind of sound cards are you guys using… I’m on the Audiophile FireWire… but wanted to get some feedback on what others are using….