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dj'ing with ableton?
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| chesco |
Right o, I've recently purchased ableton live, but I need help with a few aspect of dj'ing.
I've got all my tunes set up in the mixer, set my start points and loops. But what I really need to know is:
1. How do I hear the tune I want to mix in through my headphoens(this may be a stupid question but I'm stupid)
2. How to I trigger the tune at exactly the point I want, right now I'm hitting the little play button and sometimes the new tunes don't start playing till about 2 to 4 beats after I want them to.
3. Is there any secret to beatmatching? When using it to mix more complex tunes it would appear I can't beatmatch tunes in live. How is it done?
As I say I'm not to bright when it comes to this sort of stuff, so small words and pictures if you have any.
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| Soliman |
Next to the faders there is an S button press it
As for beatmatchin u have to set your warp markers at the start of the first beat |
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| ivanbee |
| i wish i knew. that has to be the hardest program ever created |
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| TheInnominate1 |
1. don't know, only used ableton for production.
2. change the global quantization. the default value is one bar, which is why there is a one bar pause.
3. as said above, use warp markers. |
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| DJ 00 Tommy |
What setup do you have?
Two soundcards? One soundcard with two outputs?
Do you have an external mixer?
For my question...
What is a good way to pitch bend?
I want to match up songs in ableton with vinyl.
Ofcourse i can just raise/lower the pitch and put it back but that kinda sucks doing it that way. |
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| Nic |
| quote: | Originally posted by chesco
Right o, I've recently purchased ableton live, but I need help with a few aspect of dj'ing.
I've got all my tunes set up in the mixer, set my start points and loops. But what I really need to know is:
1. How do I hear the tune I want to mix in through my headphoens(this may be a stupid question but I'm stupid)
2. How to I trigger the tune at exactly the point I want, right now I'm hitting the little play button and sometimes the new tunes don't start playing till about 2 to 4 beats after I want them to.
3. Is there any secret to beatmatching? When using it to mix more complex tunes it would appear I can't beatmatch tunes in live. How is it done?
As I say I'm not to bright when it comes to this sort of stuff, so small words and pictures if you have any.
:o |
1. depends how your soundcard is connected to your mixer/headphones/stereo
2. this depends on the global quantization (or clip quantization) for example if you have it set as 1 bar, you have the whole of the 1 bar before where you want the track to come in to click the play button
3. you need to learn how to set warp markers, your tunes arent properly warped |
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| Nic |
| quote: | Originally posted by ivanbee
i wish i knew. that has to be the hardest program ever created |
*shrugs* i find it easy, after going through the inbuilt tutorials its pretty straight foward, a lot more straight foward than other audio programs ive used |
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| Nic |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ 00 Tommy
For my question...
What is a good way to pitch bend?
I want to match up songs in ableton with vinyl.
Ofcourse i can just raise/lower the pitch and put it back but that kinda sucks doing it that way. |
The method i use is first press the tap button to get rough bpm. Then use the up/down keys on the keyboard with the bpm selected, holding shift while doing this changes the bpm in .1 increments. |
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| Clovis86 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Nic
*shrugs* i find it easy, after going through the inbuilt tutorials its pretty straight foward, a lot more straight foward than other audio programs ive used |
Yeah I was gonna say the same. |
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| IKKI-ZUVK |
| quote: | Originally posted by chesco
Right o, I've recently purchased ableton live, but I need help with a few aspect of dj'ing.
I've got all my tunes set up in the mixer, set my start points and loops. But what I really need to know is:
1. How do I hear the tune I want to mix in through my headphoens(this may be a stupid question but I'm stupid)
2. How to I trigger the tune at exactly the point I want, right now I'm hitting the little play button and sometimes the new tunes don't start playing till about 2 to 4 beats after I want them to.
3. Is there any secret to beatmatching? When using it to mix more complex tunes it would appear I can't beatmatch tunes in live. How is it done?
As I say I'm not to bright when it comes to this sort of stuff, so small words and pictures if you have any.
:o |
1. You'd need a good soundcard oran interface
2. Set the qua... at none (it's usually set as Global)
3. Warp the track manualy
Just read the manual |
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