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[ableton] Creating a mix in Ableton Live

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Bubba:
This is a good tutorial to teach you the basics of how to start mixing with Live. It's for v5 but you can still follow it for v7.
http://www.rbgrn.net/blog/2007/07/how-to-make-a-dj-mix-set-using-ableton-live.html


And this one goes into a little more depth covering looping, etc.
http://vinkalmann.com/VINKALMANN_Guide_to_Arrangement_View_Mixing.pdf

Also see the Ableton tips pages: http://www.ableton.com/pages/tips/home

andy_e:
Good knowledge, ta.

Houdini:
Crumbs, that arrangement view mixing seems so OTT.

I mix w/ a MIDI controller: seat-of-the-pants, making it up as I go along, easing tracks in and out w/ bass, middle and treble knobs.

It seems strikes me as being a healthier way to learn; mistakes being inevitable.

andy_e:
How do you get things in time? the snares are always out or something. How do you bump it into place?

Bubba:

Yeah, almost all the tracks I import need the warp markers moving or the start point changing. Once you've done that then you could happily mix with them but it wouldn't work well without that initial stage as Ableton sometimes gets it horribly wrong.

It probably depends on the music though - i've only been playing with Dubstep so far; I imagine that Techno tracks get imported with the markers set more correctly due to their (generally) more obvious kick drum.

Anyway, i've had years of traditional mixing, it's quite interesting to do something which feels is a little more like production :)

I wonder if any of the other software such as Traktor/Torq/etc would be better for live DJing?

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