So, basically what meriter said, then? It's Ableton that I should be looking into?

I'm still definitely going to experiment with the programs you linked me to in order to develop and hone those skills, but I ultimately want to become most familiar with whatever is most capable of producing the desired result.

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Originally posted by CalvP ...the transition clashes harmonically...

Perhaps you two have already settled this but apart from minor harmonic dissonance, likely related to overtone delay/reverb-tail coloring in the beginning of the transition, there really isn't any clashing of the sort that detracts from the example. Once the string section comes in at its natural volume, it sits quite amicably in the bed of the first track.

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i use Sony Acid 7. i use my ears to mix harmonically -- if you can't do this now, you'll pick it up fairly quickly. this is usually not the problem anyway when you are mixing drones or upping the energy into downtempo. there, it usually lies in a given section being either too long or too short, and editing helps only sometimes. track selection makes these sets, more than anything else.

treat these likes productions and large samples. if a mix sounds off because this one track has this annoying/impossible-to-mix section, then you either have to cut the track or choose another one entirely. the onus is on you, mixmaster-trackselectah.

basically do anything you like to come up with something you like.
don't go overboard on production techniques. 90% of the mixing work i do is just volume adjustment, and as you adjust to mix one into the other and into the 3rd or fourth track, the mix will suggest to you points of editing and adjustment, where arrangments can differ and what directions you can go.

more later, at work now.

edit: that's all. i used to mix in Nero's shitty 1-track editor which came free with nero 7. so ya. just go for it man.

Last edited by pozz on Aug-28-2011 at 16:30

oh yea, hardware. forget it, unless you are good with using mixing boards or wanna do live gigs eventually. then you are going to have to figure it out. i point and click and with high speed myself.

Ableton is a good choice to integrate hardware especially, and is much easier to beatmatch with. the reason i stick with Acid is because i know it so well that switching would be a waste of time. and the interface is nicer. it's a bit like picking a DAW that way, switching programs is difficult later on.

that said, check out

Audacity
Soundforge

neither is recommended if you wanna do live gigs. for live gigs, the minimum you'll need is an external soundcard and maybe a midicontroller if that's yur style. for the bedroom, this stuff is really extra. nice toys, but not necessary.

Hey
I would like to make a mix with tracks from very wide bpm range (start from 80 up to 130) is there any option to make it work?? Does Ableton give some tools making this possible?

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Originally posted by drogtech Hey I would like to make a mix with tracks from very wide bpm range (start from 80 up to 130) is there any option to make it work?? Does Ableton give some tools making this possible?

you can use warp points creatively in ableton, but don't rely on the beatgrid to guide you through. you will tear your hair out (i tried before, tore my hair out, went back to Acid). being able to mix like that depends on track selection more than anything else.

also depends how slow fast you wanna do that kind of progression. over the course of an hour? over a few songs?

you gotta experiment, man.