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Dave Richards
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« on: January 15, 2007, 10:43:14 PM »
If I said Ableton Live were like a Swiss Army Knife you might expect this article to be a laundry list of features.  So, I’m not going to say that.  A plethora of features doesn’t win the day.  Functionality and usability do.  Live is an elegantly designed audio program, built in such a clever way that it does a number of things well. Digital DJing is one of them.

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« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2007, 10:29:09 AM »
I've got the Live 5 Digidesign Edition. I haven't explored it properly yet, i think i will now tho!

btw, galadriel is a nice name for a hard drive. My xbox is called Evenstar (its got UV led mods in it). though i name my hard drives thus: Lyddonica (system), Repuplic (external), and County (memory stick), etc... relative to their size.

Really good article. Will be trying it out soon - and maybe i'll be able to post the results here somewhere!
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« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2007, 05:34:38 PM »
nice article for beginners Cool
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« Reply #3 on: January 18, 2007, 08:46:06 AM »
Full marks to DJ Dual Core!
Really enjoyed reading, one of the best articles on the digital djing side of ableton. Bought a magazine recently which skiimed over the djing bit. This article is much more detailed.

Learnt some new things

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« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2007, 04:52:36 PM »
I am a passionate live 6 user and I loved that article. Smiley Thanks for the stuff Dual!
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« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2007, 12:51:28 AM »
Quote from: Imhotep on January 16, 2007, 10:29:09 AM
btw, galadriel is a nice name for a hard drive.

Cool!  Thanks for noticing.  I made the mistake of naming one of my servers at work Isildur.  The only other people who "got it" didn't use it so I had to give it a second, boring, name as well.

Like your scheme too.  Always more fun with a pattern.

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« Reply #6 on: January 20, 2007, 12:54:03 AM »
Quote from: djdunamis on January 16, 2007, 05:34:38 PM
nice article for beginners Cool

Yep.  Gotta start someplace...
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« Reply #7 on: January 20, 2007, 01:06:08 AM »
Quote from: djvicar on January 18, 2007, 08:46:06 AM
Full marks to DJ Dual Core!
Really enjoyed reading, one of the best articles on the digital djing side of ableton. Bought a magazine recently which skiimed over the djing bit. This article is much more detailed.

Check out the December SOS piece on warping.  It covers some pretty foundational stuff that I did not address.  Sound On Sound and Music Tech Magazine both run quality how-to articles on Live and other apps regularly.  The MTM ones often have acompanying tutorial files on the cover disk.  MTM also costs $15 an issue, but that's probably OK for a paper magzine that comes with 3GB of digital content on a DVD.

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I'm really glad to hear that! 

...it makes me think after all is said and done, I _was_ right to cut those hundreds of lines of humorous anecdotes about my dogs and stick to writing about Live. Smiley
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« Reply #8 on: January 25, 2007, 05:22:28 AM »
I really enjoyed the article but will probably stick to spinning cd's for now.
Would I get bored "warping" every track? And no headphones? They make me look so cool!

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« Reply #9 on: January 25, 2007, 07:48:34 AM »
Quote from: Dj Du Nord on January 25, 2007, 05:22:28 AM
I really enjoyed the article but will probably stick to spinning cd's for now.
Would I get bored "warping" every track? And no headphones? They make me look so cool!

You are right.  Headphones are a key piece of DJ chic. 

You could keep using a standard mixer but add a laptop as a thrid source or replace one of the CD decks with the laptop. 

If you have two audio outputs on the Live setup you can still cue to headphones without a mixer.  It's just that if you know how the clips are going to sound/behave before hand you don't need the headphones.
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« Reply #10 on: January 25, 2007, 08:10:09 AM »
To me... you STILL HAVE TO HAVE HEADPHONES. Unless you know every track and every mix of every track in your collection, you will want to preview a track prior to mixing it in. It would really suck if you thought you were mixing in a hard electro breaks track and it turned out that you grabbed the ambient mix instead.

but yeah... since I abhor beatmatching... I'm all for ableton. I'm all flash and no skillz.
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« Reply #11 on: January 25, 2007, 10:30:24 AM »
Quote from: Dave Richards on January 25, 2007, 08:10:09 AM
I'm all flash and no skillz.

 laugh we knew that already... Wink j/k j/k  laugh
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« Reply #12 on: January 25, 2007, 11:40:24 AM »
Quote from: Imhotep on January 25, 2007, 10:30:24 AM
Quote from: Dave Richards on January 25, 2007, 08:10:09 AM
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 laugh we knew that already... Wink j/k j/k  laugh

I thought he used Joomla......

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« Reply #13 on: January 25, 2007, 11:48:12 AM »
Quote from: godlovesmaggots on January 25, 2007, 11:40:24 AM
Quote from: Imhotep on January 25, 2007, 10:30:24 AM
Quote from: Dave Richards on January 25, 2007, 08:10:09 AM
I'm all flash and no skillz.

 laugh we knew that already... Wink j/k j/k  laugh

I thought he used Joomla......

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oooh, good one, thought about that one - but the personal 'attack' seemed better Wink
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« Reply #14 on: January 25, 2007, 11:53:38 AM »
Personal attacks are fun! Especially when they involve Dave on the receiving end. Or 404, for that matter! Grin

By the way, Dave, I have a 2-hour layover in Atlanta on March 19. Wanna wave at me from the other side of the security maze? Wink
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