djing with ableton

plaster · Post by **plaster** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 11:48 am

could someone please explain how to use ableton as a tool for making mixes?
last time i was watching ganik perform with it and it's looks pretty nice and varies with possibities.
what is neccesary to beat match tracks...i heard from him that you need to set the locators and stuff like that...what is that for?

there was this paper on ableton's site half a year or so which explained the whole thing,but it seems i can't find it anymore!

thanks

patrick bateman · Post by **patrick bateman** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 12:18 pm

http://www.ableton.com/index.php?main=t ... b=tips0404

http://www.ableton.com/pages/support/tu ... _Apr04.pdf

You need to set alot of warp makers, so that the tracks will match in beat, when you mix them...

not that hard, but pretty time consuming IMO..

plaster · Post by **plaster** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 12:51 pm

patrick bateman wrote:

You need to set alot of warp makers, so that the tracks will match in beat, when you mix them...

not that hard, but pretty time consuming IMO..

i think i got the whole thing once you told me that i need to set a lot of markers.

so,i just gotta mark every beat in a track and thats basicly it?

patrick bateman · Post by **patrick bateman** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 1:24 pm

plaster wrote:
patrick bateman wrote:

You need to set alot of warp makers, so that the tracks will match in beat, when you mix them...

not that hard, but pretty time consuming IMO..

i think i got the whole thing once you told me that i need to set a lot of markers.

so,i just gotta mark every beat in a track and thats basicly it?

That's what I did when I tried it out a year ago, yes... But I don't think you have to mark every beat through the track, most tracks should be so accurate in the beat, so you just need to mark the beginning and ending of the track... I think

plaster · Post by **plaster** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 5:10 pm

well,i thought things will go smooth,but i can't mark two tracks to go perfect in time...after like 20 seconds they start to fall appart?

i was going exactly like the tutorial said,but things fall apart...what did i do wrong?

audiophile · Post by **audiophile** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 6:21 pm

you should contact Surgeon on this one...he seems to have it down to a science!!!

good luck plaster...

cheers,
vlad

adam · Post by **adam** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 7:04 pm

Why would you play whole tracks? Break 'em down, get gritty and break all your tracks into as many loops and elements as possible. Put them together again when you play, in order if you must but if you are using a technology like that, why would you just play 'em the same boring old way?

Have some fun with them. I've fantisized about using ableton to "dj" for awhile, just haven't had time to do the work. Maybe it's just personal preference but I certainly wouldn't want to just "play" tracks..

plaster · Post by **plaster** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 8:57 pm

audiophile wrote:you should contact Surgeon on this one...he seems to have it down to a science!!!

good luck plaster...

cheers,
vlad

you mean, the techno artist Surgeon?