There's a good tutorial about djing with Live at the ableton website. One
way to get around having to set warp markers for every track is to do a
setup with Live in addition to a DJ. That way one person can do a
traditional mix and the Live person can sample breaks and loops live and
create synced re-edits on the fly.
Once you sync up the sequencer with the tempo tap button to an external
signal, like the DJ or a singer or instrumentalist, (just press to the beat
five times which will sync the loop start and the tempo) you can lock down
the sample triggers to whole or half bar increments (to start with at
least) and with practice its fairly effortless to sample seamless loops
live consistently which always play back in sync ( or always not in sync,
however you set up the loop points) with the mix.
Live is different than most sequencers and software samplers I've seen
because you control a relatively few number of parameters (i.e. the
interface is fairly sparse, setting tempo, loop points and triggering
clips) but that gives you a big amount of room for flexibility and
experimentation. But you still have the option of going in and tweaking it
in any number of ways. Setting up warp markers for every track wouldn't be
time consuming for thumping techno and house files. You could set up two
warp points for a track, and if the tempo doesn't change it should sync the
whole track up roughly. That could be done during a mix once you were
pretty comfortable with the software I imagine.
But if you aren't bothered about beatmatching you should just use Winamp 2
with the crossfader plugin. Or even just open two copies of the quicktime
player.
At 06:28 AM 11/10/2003, Kent williams wrote:
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, john harvey wrote:
> does anyone know what the best software is for DJing mp3s/wav files.
> i'm not too bothered about beat-matching, i just need to be able to cue
up a
> 2nd mp3 and fade out/in.
>
I've been a big fan of Traktor. It does everything you want and mostly
avoids things you don't want.
Ableton Live also has great potential -- as proved by Ectomorph, but it is all
about synchronized playback, and you have to go through every track and set
warp markers if you want them to sound good. On the other hand, it can
square up notoriously hard to mix material, like disco done with a live
drummer.
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