Hello,

I use to mix with serato since a year and half. Most of mixer in nightclub where i spin is rodec mx180, so no effect and no send/return.

I want to do per serato deck : serato -> ableton -> mixer. At the moment, i only want to use effect, perhaps more later.

I know that serato and ableton are working together on some product, i did email serato, i got a classic answer : we don't know when we will release something, this is not our politics to leak info ...

I did test chaining on one deck using internal sound card of my macbook pro, that works fine but I have some questions :

- when i use effects, level is growing a way too much. a friend told me to put a limiter, but it limits the whole sound and the main thing is that i want to keep signal as pure as i can when i dont use effect.

- i did use line input from laptop to test, signal was at 0 on ableton track but signal was fully red, does it come from the sound card ? will it work better with a decent sound card ? do i have a chance that ableton will modify the original sound by getting too much high input signal ?


So i'm about to buy a sound card, i stopped my look on :

- tc electronic konnekt 24d, got 2 friends using it with live.
- edirol fa-101, a friend which release tracks on bonzai use edirol as home studio soundcard.

I don't want to put more than 400 euro on a soundcard as long I spent 600 on sl-3 last month.

Ps : i know i could probably do :
- use only ableton live but im not a big fan of warping track.
- use traktor, i don't like the gui, and more important for me, the waveform, some times i spin track i got 3 hours before gigs, and got a colored waveform is perfect for me.

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