so this past weekend I dj'd for a concert at my church... we completely revamped the place for a club night and had five bands come in from all over and play.. for the downtime between bands they had me djing...
I had been djing with traktor for a while, but being this was a primarily rock show, I felt that I had to step up my game a bit and try using ableton. So I brought my laptop, trigger finger, and my bcd2000 as backup to use wit htraktor (never touched it.
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So I get to the gig and help setup and start setting up my gear... get everything together and start warming up with some progressive tracks... I start jumping around my tracks just mixing it up with clips set for different start points in the tracks... mainly every track I broke up into four parts... beginning, then about 32-64 bars into the track, then the first breakdown, then some part towards the end but not the outtro... Start having fun with that, then I start to play with my juggle slots that I have setup for just putting short loops or just onehits in... start looping an acapella ontop and just playing with that... now I'm realizing how much I can do without really worrying about keeping stuff in sync...
After the first band finishes their set, I start my next set... playing some breaks... eventually I get into playing tresice - reflections, and using rapid evolution I see that an underoath track is relative bpm and key... I decide to try a live mashup... drop the track and things just start playing perfectly!! Started just mixing between the two and hten started triggering dummy clips and effects galore... finally someone comes up to me and says, "Isn't that underoath???" "Yeah..." "Man that's awesome!"
The rest of the night went off without a hitch dropped a lot of great music and had quite a few compliments on how well it went... I took dunamis' advice and just played what I would normally rathre than trying to guess what would work and a lot of kids came up to me and said that they normally don't like music with no words but waht I was playing was awesome...
Of course to finish off the night after eveyrone had left and it was just our group setting back up for church, I had to drop Lecrae - Jesus Muzik... (a favorite of our youth group)'
In summary, I have to say I haven't even tapped the beginning of what is possible with ableton and I can't wait to start using it much more to do a lot more live... I still will continue to use traktor for some of my more laid back and hiphop sets, but when I really wanna get hands on, I'm gonna use ableton
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