[_] [OT] Anyone using Ableton Live?
Stef Goodchild
stefan.goodchild at realworld.co.uk
Mon Aug 14 13:34:24 BST 2006
Easy peasy...
Live is fine for DJing if you like DJing the way live works.. I
still use vinyl and mixers and other such dated nonsense as I find it
more fun :-)
You will probably have to fix some autowarp glitches but most of the
set building you can do either by hand by dragging and dropping into
the arrange timeline or by doing it "live" in the session view and
recording your actions to the arrange page...
You can also edit these "live" mixes after the fact.. Not that
there'll be much wrong to edit as it does all the lining up for
you.. Just hit play on a clip less than a bar before and as long as
the warp markers are all correct it'll all be technically in time..
It might still sound a bit wonky as tunes tend to have a groove to
them so things like snares might be early or late or whatever so you
might have to mess with those warp markers again to get it all
sounding right.
One thing to watch is the option for how it time stretches the audio
to get it in time... For a DJ set you'd want to use "pitch" (old
school higher pitch as it gets faster type) or "complex" (nu school
granular cleverness that can sound good or rubbish) depending on what
you are trying to achieve.
You can make much more interesting mixes as long as you don't go
overboard on the layering and effects...
Less is more and all that :-)
Good luck...
Stef
On 14 Aug 2006, at 13:18, Pete Fairhurst wrote:
> Big up the [_] massive (or something),
>
> I've been a bedroom DJ for about 15 years now, but haven't ever felt
> confident enough to release something to the world... until now.
>
> Would Ableton Live allow me to build up a set like you'd build a
> tune in
> Acid, then dump the finished thing as a single audio file? It
> certainly
> looks like this is possible, according to the DJ
> showcase<http://www.ableton.com/pages/live_6/showcase/for_djs>on the
> Abtleton web site, but I may be wrong.
>
> I've tried using Acid for this in past, but found the software too
> limited
> in scope for this particular kind of thing--much hair-ripping when
> it comes
> to start frames and subsequent transitions between tracks.
>
> Thanks in advance, tipsters.
>
> - Pete F.
> ________________________________________________________
>
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Live is fine for DJing if you like DJing the way live works.. I
still use vinyl and mixers and other such dated nonsense as I find it
more fun :-)
You will probably have to fix some autowarp glitches but most of the
set building you can do either by hand by dragging and dropping into
the arrange timeline or by doing it "live" in the session view and
recording your actions to the arrange page...
You can also edit these "live" mixes after the fact.. Not that
there'll be much wrong to edit as it does all the lining up for
you.. Just hit play on a clip less than a bar before and as long as
the warp markers are all correct it'll all be technically in time..
It might still sound a bit wonky as tunes tend to have a groove to
them so things like snares might be early or late or whatever so you
might have to mess with those warp markers again to get it all
sounding right.
One thing to watch is the option for how it time stretches the audio
to get it in time... For a DJ set you'd want to use "pitch" (old
school higher pitch as it gets faster type) or "complex" (nu school
granular cleverness that can sound good or rubbish) depending on what
you are trying to achieve.
You can make much more interesting mixes as long as you don't go
overboard on the layering and effects...
Less is more and all that :-)
Good luck...
Stef
On 14 Aug 2006, at 13:18, Pete Fairhurst wrote:
> Big up the [_] massive (or something),
>
> I've been a bedroom DJ for about 15 years now, but haven't ever felt
> confident enough to release something to the world... until now.
>
> Would Ableton Live allow me to build up a set like you'd build a
> tune in
> Acid, then dump the finished thing as a single audio file? It
> certainly
> looks like this is possible, according to the DJ
> showcase<http://www.ableton.com/pages/live_6/showcase/for_djs>on the
> Abtleton web site, but I may be wrong.
>
> I've tried using Acid for this in past, but found the software too
> limited
> in scope for this particular kind of thing--much hair-ripping when
> it comes
> to start frames and subsequent transitions between tracks.
>
> Thanks in advance, tipsters.
>
> - Pete F.
> ________________________________________________________
>
> "A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured
> and then quietly strangled." -Sir Barnett Cocks
> ________________________________________________________
> --
> underscore_ list info/archive -> http://www.under-score.org.uk
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