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Mixing with Ableton (pg. 4)
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| quote: | Originally posted by jahnlay
Jeez, some of you guys can speak BS!You can mix it in the arrange window without recording it live. Do a search on www.abletonlivedj.com for a tutorial on warping then just drag your tracks into the Arrange page in order that you want to mix them, alternating the track and then you can automate the crossfader on the master track by double clicking the line and dragging it across. It's so easy it's like paint by numbers. |
Hell yea! I'm gonna try that out today thanks. |
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| G-Con |
| quote: | Originally posted by jahnlay
Jeez, some of you guys can speak BS!You can mix it in the arrange window without recording it live. Do a search on www.abletonlivedj.com for a tutorial on warping then just drag your tracks into the Arrange page in order that you want to mix them, alternating the track and then you can automate the crossfader on the master track by double clicking the line and dragging it across. It's so easy it's like paint by numbers. |
Thats pretty much what I've just said |
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| The 3am Junkie |
I'll be using it on a desktop, so I guess i can also use a pci sound card. The minimum thing sound card needs to have in order to be able to cue is for it to have multiple channels ? or is there something else, well midi would help but it isnt absolutely necessary or is it?
I just want to have the uc-33e or the bcr2000 and a basic sound card (30$) at least for now. Later I might upgrade to the M-Audio. |
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| ianco |
Do what you will but...
I tried going down this route, it gave me an idea but eventually I invested in some really old, cheap, used Gemini CDJs off ebay, a bottom range mixer and nicked a pair of dud headphones from my father-in-law.
Not including the price of 10 blank CDs, within a month and for U$300 I was beatmatching. The hands on feel is incomparable. DJing is pretty new down here (south Brazil - MKIIs are the price of a small car!!) so I was doing live sets at small parties within six months - not good live sets but ones that nevertheless paid for my upgrades.
Can you get U$300 together? In my view it would be worth it. If you really are a DJ (i.e. not necessarily good but just LOVE the feeling of spinning tunes) eventaully you'll find a way to get a little more cash together, sell your existing stuff on and move up to better gear. In fact, it'll become your mission in life.
P.S. After learning to beatmatch with dud headphones, using studio ones is a cinch and I can't wait to find out what I can do with MKIIs. |
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| JBDreamerie |
anybody know why when i try to put in a song in ableton, it says "could not decode the file using available codecs" ? it won't do it for all the songs, just some, and it doesn't have to do with the format, because it'll work sometimes for one, and another, but then not another song of the same file extension.
any ideas? or on how to fix it? |
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| davemolina |
| quote: | Originally posted by JBDreamerie
anybody know why when i try to put in a song in ableton, it says "could not decode the file using available codecs" ? it won't do it for all the songs, just some, and it doesn't have to do with the format, because it'll work sometimes for one, and another, but then not another song of the same file extension.
any ideas? or on how to fix it? |
I think you might be trying to load a VBR MP3. What version are you running? |
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| JBDreamerie |
| quote: | Originally posted by davemolina
I think you might be trying to load a VBR MP3. What version are you running? |
5.0.3.
VBR MP3...not sure what that is...is there anyway to check whether it is, or to switch it some other readable form? |
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| jahnlay |
| a variable bit rate mp3, just convert it to wav and then load it into Ableton |
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| DJ Dinz |
Hi guys,
first of all i dont want to start another ABLETON thread...
i have a question.. im using Audiophile 192... i have try everything, reading the manual etc... but i cant seperate the Headphone cue n the track that is play?
is it Audiophile 192 is not proper for ABLETON?
Pls anyone :D :D :D
i have a big headache here hehe |
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| superglo |
| quote: | Originally posted by ianco
Do what you will but...
I tried going down this route, it gave me an idea but eventually I invested in some really old, cheap, used Gemini CDJs off ebay, a bottom range mixer and nicked a pair of dud headphones from my father-in-law.
Not including the price of 10 blank CDs, within a month and for U$300 I was beatmatching. The hands on feel is incomparable. DJing is pretty new down here (south Brazil - MKIIs are the price of a small car!!) so I was doing live sets at small parties within six months - not good live sets but ones that nevertheless paid for my upgrades.
Can you get U$300 together? In my view it would be worth it. If you really are a DJ (i.e. not necessarily good but just LOVE the feeling of spinning tunes) eventaully you'll find a way to get a little more cash together, sell your existing stuff on and move up to better gear. In fact, it'll become your mission in life.
P.S. After learning to beatmatch with dud headphones, using studio ones is a cinch and I can't wait to find out what I can do with MKIIs. |
cool.
thats the exact road i'm taking.
i started off with just a desktop. then upgraded to a laptop. then bought a cheapo mixer too hook up to my laptop. managed to get myself a couple of gigs using the laptop and now i've finally got enough to get myself 2 cdj200s (which are on the way..) and upgrade my mixer.
wooohooo ! |
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| davemolina |
| If you have no aspirations to produce, then stick to CDs by all means. I prefer to immerse myself in Ableton so I can create mixes and then use the skills I learned while mixing to produce. |
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| The 3am Junkie |
Just to give an update a bought the following:
M-Audio Audiophile Firewire
Behringer BCR-2000
Sony MDR V500
The package should arrive in about two weeks. And btw I'm definetly planning on eventually producing on ableton after taking some piano and music theory lessons. |
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