ABLETON - Can you actually DJ "Live" as u would with decks?

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ABLETON - Can you actually DJ "Live" as u would with decks?

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I have a basic understanding of what Ableton is about and its uses from forums such as this, however, I was talking with a gentleman about Ableton and he told me that when you see a DJ in a club "DJing" with Ableton they are not "DJing" in the the way you would with vinyl or CD's. What he was basically saying was due to the way Ableton works you cannot suddenly on the spur of the moment decide the current pace is going well and instead of playing the next record that has been set up in Ableton suddenly play a totally different record. If you were playing with vinyl or CD's, you could simply remove the record you longer want to play and beat match and EQ the the new track and then mix it into the track that is currently playing, whereas with Ableton you couldn't do this.

Is this nonsense?
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It's nonsense, yes.
Delete the track, load a new track, cue/monitor and mix..
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Re: ABLETON - Can you actually DJ "Live" as u would with dec

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i thought it was nonsense he was talking.
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Re: ABLETON - Can you actually DJ "Live" as u would with dec

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It can definitely be done, but as a rule I'd say there's not much point in Ableton if you're wanting to do "old-skool" DJing. Using decks is much more fun for that, Ableton only really comes into its own when you're doing more fancy stuff with loops, live remixing and so on.

The "fancy stuff" doesn't necessarily have to be pre-planned though, it can certainly be done on the fly. It's just a different type of DJing.
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