M-Audio makes nice external interfaces. Go Firewire over USB if your machine has a firewire port. I use the M-Audio Audiophile Firewire.

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Originally posted by JBDreamerie as said before, external sound card seems necessary if you want to cue up tracks and listen to what you're doing. but does anyone have any recommendations for it? so it looks like: ableton+UC33e+(sound card) is all you really need to mix live with just a computer. sweet.

aight; sweet; that looks like it'll work pretty well.
but i'm a little confused.
i found this:
http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_...phile-main.html

for both ableton and the M-Audio card for 349.95

but then, i found this:

http://www.future-micro.ca/db/product.php?productid=322

for just the card at 369. plus ableton for another 499.

anybody knows what's going on? or know of a place where they might bundle all three of those things to make it cheaper?

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Use froogle.com to search for the interface, you should be able to find it for under $200.

M-Audio used to bundle Ableton "lite" with the interface. If they still do, you can use that to "upgrade" to the current version for $250.

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Originally posted by JBDreamerie aight; sweet; that looks like it'll work pretty well. but i'm a little confused. i found this: http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_...phile-main.html for both ableton and the M-Audio card for 349.95 but then, i found this: http://www.future-micro.ca/db/product.php?productid=322 for just the card at 369. plus ableton for another 499. anybody knows what's going on? or know of a place where they might bundle all three of those things to make it cheaper?

So far I've been using Ableton without the luxury of an external soundcard to cue tracks. But then again why do I need to cue tracks if I don't need to beatmatch them. Muwahahahahaha!

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Originally posted by Zild So far I've been using Ableton without the luxury of an external soundcard to cue tracks. But then again why do I need to cue tracks if I don't need to beatmatch them. Muwahahahahaha!

haha; so i'm guessing ableton does the beatmatching automatically, or what? splain please

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Would this work?

http://www.ableton.com/index/shop



Includes Live 5 and the M-Audio FireWire Audiophile! The M-Audio FireWire Audiophile is a compact, FireWire-compatible audio/MIDI interface that is perfect for DJing and remixing with Live 5. The FireWire Audiophile retails for 349.95 USD (MSRP in the US). When you order the Live FireWire Audiophile bundle, you will pay just USD USD 189 for Live - rather than the MSRP of USD 499 - and also receive a free T-shirt and mousepad!
Two stereo outputs, with A/B headphone switching between assignable sources, allow you to take advantage of Live's previewing and cueing feature to perfect your mix. You also get zero-latency hardware direct monitoring and 1 x 1 MIDI I/O to accommodate your recording and sequencing needs.

All bundles include an exclusive Ableton T-shirt, an Ableton Mousepad and Free Shipping!

The following optional articles are available:

You can save 30 USD on the Operator instrument by adding it to
your order now for only 119 USD.

Optional (add 29 USD): The Ableton padded bag (world).

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yes indeed; that would be pretty damn good; thanks!

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It's still cheaper if you can buy ableton for a $250 upgrade and get the M-Audio for under $200. But that depends on IF you can still pull off the upgrade

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Originally posted by davemolina Would this work? http://www.ableton.com/index/shop Includes Live 5 and the M-Audio FireWire Audiophile! The M-Audio FireWire Audiophile is a compact, FireWire-compatible audio/MIDI interface that is perfect for DJing and remixing with Live 5. The FireWire Audiophile retails for 349.95 USD (MSRP in the US). When you order the Live FireWire Audiophile bundle, you will pay just USD USD 189 for Live - rather than the MSRP of USD 499 - and also receive a free T-shirt and mousepad! Two stereo outputs, with A/B headphone switching between assignable sources, allow you to take advantage of Live's previewing and cueing feature to perfect your mix. You also get zero-latency hardware direct monitoring and 1 x 1 MIDI I/O to accommodate your recording and sequencing needs. All bundles include an exclusive Ableton T-shirt, an Ableton Mousepad and Free Shipping! The following optional articles are available: You can save 30 USD on the Operator instrument by adding it to your order now for only 119 USD. Optional (add 29 USD): The Ableton padded bag (world).

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Originally posted by Ryan0751 It's still cheaper if you can buy ableton for a $250 upgrade and get the M-Audio for under $200. But that depends on IF you can still pull off the upgrade

whoa, zuh? what is the upgrade?
are you talking about the upgrade from 4 to 5? so it just requires finding ableton 4...is that what you mean?

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Well I bought my Audiophile interface for like $179 a while back (like a year ago). At that time it came with a copy of Ableton 4 "lite" (which wasn't very good). I used that copy to upgrade to the full copy of 5 for $249.

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Originally posted by JBDreamerie whoa, zuh? what is the upgrade? are you talking about the upgrade from 4 to 5? so it just requires finding ableton 4...is that what you mean?

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Originally posted by Ryan0751 Well I bought my Audiophile interface for like $179 a while back (like a year ago). At that time it came with a copy of Ableton 4 "lite" (which wasn't very good). I used that copy to upgrade to the full copy of 5 for $249.

ah ok, gotcha.
still looks like froogle is the way to go though. you can get an audiophile for a lot cheaper there, and a UC33e cheaper too. the only thing that really won't change in price that much is ableton.
UC33e: 169
audiophile: 125
ableton: 399

but if you get that 349 deal of audiophile with ableton, that saves 175 bucks.

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