Anyways,

1) CDJs provide you with a sense of reliability and flexibility and great tactile feedback, but there are limitations creatively with what you can do with it.

2) Running Ableton doesn't provide you with tactile feedback, flexibility in playing your shows and you often resort to a very preprogrammed type of show but it opens up a whole slew of options with clips/loops and effects and synths.

3) IMO, doing some sort of traktor/ableton hybrid gives you both the flexibility and creativity to do something really unique, although what is at question is really how reliable can you trust a laptop to run all that stuff in an environment consistently and reliably.

4) A last option which seems more feasable is doing a cdj/mixer combo with some sort of midi syncronisation feeding into a laptop with ableton and maschine, with the output going to a mixer. You could even connect MIDI keyboards and other instruments and have a pretty reliable setup. However, the amount of equipment and space you'd need for such a setup is pretty massive.

i meant have a cdj back up when shit goes south. Programs will crash. And the more things you do such as using two programs, the problems multiply. Have 1 track where you edit some sort of intro where the crash can seem almost like you planned it. Like a vocal that says something like we are having some technical difficulties then do some sample manipulation with the vocal and a minimal track that has a good bassline that won't kill the energy but won't stick out either, Basically something that can go anywhere.

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why not have 8 cdjs only? fuck computers.

I always thought it'd be useful to have some experience doing stand-up so when your shit crashes you can walk up and do really lame "SO WHATS THE DEAL WITH DEADMOUSE" typed comedy, like for an audience of cracked out e-tards at 4 am I'm sure it would go over really well

"SO I WENT TO SEE PAUL VAN DYKE THE OTHER DAY AND WOULDN'T YOU KNOW IT HE DOESN'T LOOK ANYTHING LIKE A LESBIAN!"



"..."



"..."



"fuuuuuck yooou!"

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Originally posted by dj_alfi Yeah? Just got a Launchpad, and I'm pretty happy with it so far. Does what says on box, and more. Was contemplating getting an apc40, but just got a nanokontrol2 for knobs and faders instead.

How is the nanokontrol 2? Is it plug and play out of the box with ableton. Do you have map it manually or is it already mapped to fader\volume\etc.

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Originally posted by meriter I always thought it'd be useful to have some experience doing stand-up so when your shit crashes you can walk up and do really lame "SO WHATS THE DEAL WITH DEADMOUSE" typed comedy, like for an audience of cracked out e-tards at 4 am I'm sure it would go over really well "SO I WENT TO SEE PAUL VAN DYKE THE OTHER DAY AND WOULDN'T YOU KNOW IT HE DOESN'T LOOK ANYTHING LIKE A LESBIAN!" "..." "..." "fuuuuuck yooou!"

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well well, look who decided to drop by

Life gave me lemons when I was already choking on a steady diet of whale-shit.

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hope you are ok.

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Originally posted by Looney4Clooney hope you are ok.

I'll just say that after some of the things I've experienced, in the past two months, I'm through with being rude to anyone on the internet; no matter how much I disagree with them. These are things I've experienced, first hand - not through some on-line interaction. It is a little shocking what some people do to others and I don't want any part of that, in anyone else's life, on line or off. I'd elaborate but it concerns another person whose confidence I'd violate with the details and I don't want to derail this thread any longer.

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i've been having a similar type of self appraisal. In that i am a real swell guy and way too many people think i'm a dick on the internet. Although i don't think my attacks are how do you say continuous and predestined but it is annoying having to deal with the same 4-5 people you slighted and they can't get over it.

since you've been gone, system j said something i said was genius. I teared a bit. And then i defended his Batman critique. ITs like we are almost friends. Next on the list is Russel. And then orgesto. I must be beloved.

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