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Originally posted by Nemesis44 I played with Mike about 3 years ago on two occassions, first time he used a laptop and after that vinyl and CDs. To be fair he actually rocked it but he didn't live up to my expectations, not sure if that's a reflection on him or me... What made the room empty when he played this time? Cheers Nem

to be fair dave pearce was playing a pure uplifting set finished with a real high energy track then m.i.k.e came on and played electro house. mixing wasnt bad, he didnt do much interacting but in the circumstances he didnt have many people to interact with.

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Originally posted by sterilis he did rock the crowd as i said "rocked the place". he doesnt over do it like fuckin tiesto acting a maggot behind the decks. i hate over the top djs that think their popstars.

LOL, you would freakin hate me then, I go pretty apeshit, but more in the same way Eddie Halliwell does. Otherwise I can't really connect with the music. Comes form having played musical instruments for a long time I think.

Dave Pearce is one of those DJs who can have a horrendous slelection sometimes but is technically actually a better DJ than a lot of people give him credit for.
Although, I can understand why MIKE cleared the dancefloor playing electro house after that.

Cheers
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Originally posted by Nemesis44 LOL, you would freakin hate me then, I go pretty apeshit, but more in the same way Eddie Halliwell does. Otherwise I can't really connect with the music. Comes form having played musical instruments for a long time I think. Dave Pearce is one of those DJs who can have a horrendous slelection sometimes but is technically actually a better DJ than a lot of people give him credit for. Although, I can understand why MIKE cleared the dancefloor playing electro house after that. Cheers Nem

dont get me wrong i get into it myself but some people take interaction to extreme. when im djing at home i tend to go a bit mad been caught dancing about the place a few times, quite embarassing.

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Originally posted by agentdansmith I'm really not into all this just using laptops - I know it's the future but I haven't seen a DJ rock a crowd using laptops. I don't mean the music doesn't get the crowd but the DJ him/herself doesn't get the crowd going when using lappys. As for PvD, I've seen more charisma in a sausage roll.

me neither i dont mind and actually suport using them with hardware and decks and if it depends on me i will kep all the young ones from doing so, i will not allow it

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Originally posted by agentdansmith You missed my point - I have also seen PvD at Cream in Ibiza and yes, his set was very good but my point was he didn't rock the crowd, like say Eddie H or Carl Cox would. All laptop dj's have to spend so much time staring at their screens that they don't have the time to interact with the crowd. Please prove me wrong if you know anyone who does....

That doesn't mean you can't get into it while mixing off a laptop.

In this case, if you're using a Xone 3D to control Ableton, you're still using a traditional mixer (of sorts) to mix. Just about the only thing missing there would be watching the DJ crouch down and hide for a minute or two to select a new CD or record, and then beatmatch and fine tune the mix (which looks awfully boring when a proficient DJ does it, since they do it so quickly and effortlessly).

Any DJ making proper use of Ableton to its fullest potential will be entertaining to watch. Go see Hawtin spin some time--his hands move a mile a minute on the mixer alone.

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Originally posted by agentdansmith You missed my point - I have also seen PvD at Cream in Ibiza and yes, his set was very good but my point was he didn't rock the crowd, like say Eddie H or Carl Cox would. All laptop dj's have to spend so much time staring at their screens that they don't have the time to interact with the crowd. Please prove me wrong if you know anyone who does....

You just contradicted your self because Carl Cox also uses Ableton!



This was last year when he came to LA.

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Originally posted by DjWoody Not anymore. He needs CDJs or Turntables for Serato. He uses a Synth on one mac and Ableton on the other.

Well in this recent interview he states he uses serato & ableton for dj gigs..

http://dancemusic.about.com/od/remi...InBetween_2.htm

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Originally posted by DjWoody Here you go sir! It looks like he actually has two copies of Ableton running.

it's exactly as someone said before, one ableton is managing the set mixing...the DJing...

the other one is there for synthesis...seems like he has one of Arturia's synths open there (not sure really)

the setup (I would imagine) works the way, that he uses one lappy with ableton to mix the set and the other solely for synthesizing the sound of his (improvised?) solos...

I'm just guessing here but it definitely is something liek this

although, I don't think he needs two laptops to do that, because I've done the same thing and had no problems with stability/latency or whatever...

might be the fact that the lappy I used for that was a dual-core beast lol

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Originally posted by DjWoody Not anymore. He needs CDJs or Turntables for Serato. He uses a Synth on one mac and Ableton on the other.

Actually, you don't. You can actually mix in Serato without CDJ's. It's tough to do though.

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When Paul uses Serato, he uses CDs. Paul doesn't mix in Internal Mode which is what you're talking about. Trust me on this one. Paul used my CD's last November at Vanguard in Hollywood.