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PVD Talks About Ableton Live & Serato..
Found this on another board. Sounds kinda confusing.
| quote: | Trance.nu: When you are DJ-ing, you’re using Ableton Live a lot. What do you like so much about it?
Paul van Dyk: I’m not just use Ableton Live, I use a combination between Scratch Live and Ableton. I have 2 computers with me and I’m basicly using Scratch Live with time coded CD’s. That signal actually goes into the interface of Ableton Live. Within Ableton Live I have the possibility then to do the craziest things, because it’s a combination of a DJ program with a sequencer program. That obviously enables you to sort of re-arrange the whole track. It’s much more actually like playing live then rather DJ-ing in a normal way of how some people understand it. It’s crazy all the possibilities you have and the options of being creative they are just endless! Electronic music has always been about breaking the boundaries on the creative level as much as on the technological side. And by using those elements of course and these programs and computers and stuff, you can actually push the boundaries again! It makes something even more special. Because of the set up, I can never ever play a track the same way, because it’s always somehow different, it’s always a different thing. That makes it even more unique on one hand, but it also makes it more special to the actual event itself. For example, I can take elements of the track away and just play the strings, the drums or whatever.
Trance.nu: So you have special CD’s for that, since you can remove some parts?
Paul van Dyk: No, it’s a DJ program and it works a bit the same as Final Scratch. With the older systems you had a beeping noise, a time code, on the vinyl. That time code was actually translated through an interface. So the computer program knows exactly where the time code is. And then you hav a program, like a window, where you use something like a virtual card slot. So you can load a track into it. That is similar with Scratch Live, but instead of using analog vinyl, I use a CD with a time code. And that goes into the one computer, usually on my left side. And then this signal, instead of going into the mixer to be mixed, goes straight into the other computer through another interface that’s connected with the other computer on the right side, which drives the Ableton. It’s quite a tricky set up, but it’s great! It’s an amazing way of doing what I do now! |
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