Ableton Live DJs

Yup, just ended a veeery long session of recording part of my vinyl into ye old powerbook, beatmatched most of it. I must say, for beat oriented electronic music this would have been done in a jiffy, but now I’m figuring out how to treat the soul, disco, funk and other stuff that where recorded with instruments. Puting the markers in the right place can be a problem, also varying speed in one song is something I have to give some thought on how to do it in the best manner.
However, Live combined with my BCR2000 is a blast, really, and with ten tracks only I find myself playing around for hours on end. Lots of fun, I tell you!
Got four tracks set up as mixer, the other buttons are assigned to effects, like triggering the Reversinator vst plugin on each track and whatnot.
Ofcourse, the first live performance went haywire , being not prepared enough. Tracks I forgot to save didn’t show up correctly, but hey that’s part of the fun & better luck next time lol.

I love ableton to bits, but I’ve never tried properly dj’ing out with it. I’ve made up a few mashup mixes with it that have been played on local radio shows tho.

I use everything, ableton is pretty much the only computer based program i use to mix/remix, bar a small wave editing program.

i find it works for me great, i even attended a tutorial by monolake – the guy who created it.

went from cd to vinyl then all cd then all Ableton and now I’m using all three which seems to be the best medum

[quote quote="Milkman Dan":2krqpo6z][quote quote="Lide01":2krqpo6z]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:2krqpo6z]

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….[/quote:2krqpo6z]

I second that!!! one of the nicest laid out midi boxes I’ve seen, nice one!
Ableton is definitely a great program–I use it as a live looper for bass, keys, guitar, and drums with the session view, and do more "studio" stuff in the arrager view. Live 6 has introduced some pretty cool features.

Does any one know how to cut vocals from a Wav Track…. I’m using ableton Live 5…. on mac….
I Hope someone could help me….

I use ableton aswell but only for production. Other than that I use vinyl and soon will by a cdj so I can play my production tracks live. Ableton is good cause, you can rewire FL studio, Melodyne,reason and Cubase right into Ableton to make it a monster program.

wats an albeton dj and wat program u guys use

I may have to check out Ableton. looks like a hugely recomended program. also that controler on the first page is awesome.

Ableton is the program what got me into production to start with. I’ve worked (and still do now and then) with nuendo and pro-tools…
Perhaps it’s my lack of pro-tools knowledge, but I can’t build a drum-track (loops, timestretched and everything) within 15 minutes… In ableton live I can…