I have to say that a lot of this discussion about Ableton´s sound smacks of the DAW falling victim to its own success. It's only attracted all this attention because so many people choose to make music with this program. And therefore, music made with Ableton is bound to sound more generic.

Sh¡t, this thread has taught me a lot, never thought the answers would be found in Berghain techno

Yeah, get a mic and record some dude. Or search fcking google. I found 4,000,000 results in 2 seconds. I did record some real cool shaker sounds recently. I ate a poppy seed bagel and when I was done, set up my recorder and recorded the seeds rolling around on a paper plate. I thought you were goin...

IME, clubs will take the lead in ceasing to supply equipment (eg "yeah, we sold the technics because nobody used them and they just kept getting trashed"), but if you want to convince a club owner that he should buy a new piece of gear, he (or she) is gonna need some pretty hard persuasio...

What an arse, music is becoming commoditised

Hmmm. I can see CDs being phased out by laptop, but not by USB drives... club owners (especially small clubs) will be keen for laptop DJs since it means less equipment to maintain. CDJs are hella expensive to repair when people spill drinks on them. Any shift in technology would be 90% dependent on...

Yeah, I know there's the whole traktor scratch thing as well, which again I don't really understand unless you want to pretend to play vinyl. (Having said that, I have DJed a bit with it and it's pretty good fun). Well, it's all the advantages of laptop DJing without the lack of tactile control. It...

Yeah, I know there's the whole traktor scratch thing as well, which again I don't really understand unless you want to pretend to play vinyl. (Having said that, I have DJed a bit with it and it's pretty good fun). What I'm advocating is like a CD deck but one that uses USB drives instead of CDs. To ...