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there are a few different ways to use ableton, depending on the situation. For DJing here's what I do:

you leave the main-view in the clips window - and trigger the tracks from there

when you load in tracks, you do a "beat-mapper" type thing, where you put hit points on the beats (think ReCycle). This way all of your tracks are pefectly BPMed (depending on how well you did the hit point stuff) to the master tempo.

Personally I resisted moving from vinyl until I saw Ableton Live 5, and then everything clicked into place. The decision was made for me once I saw what you can do with ableton and the potential once you add a HW interface.

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Ableton is really powerfull piece of sw but using it removes the need for practicing beatmatching and even worse, it removes the chance of making errors(as i get it).

I like errors, if you remove erors it's like there is noone onstage just a cdplayer with

studio-made perfect mix.

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way I see it - if you want to beat mix, use vinyl, there is nothing like the feel of a 1200/1210, anything else is like kissing your sister.

there are lots of ways to use ableton, sure you can program it to do a set for you and stand there and pretend, or you can use it like having 200 decks all at the correct pitch, plus all your your VST plugin are available at your finger tips, and lots and lots of other very cool tricks.

and of course you can mess up a mix on ableton! I use the quantise at 1/4 usually and it entirely posible to make mixes sound awful.

But if you look at the new possiblities given to you by ableton it's a whole new way of performing.

Besides, really and truely I don't think anyone has cared about mixing for years, the only time you ever hear anyone comment on a mix is if it's done badly. Last time I hear someone say "wow, this guy's mixing is amazing" was about 5 years ago. Truth is the kids in the clubs aren't impressed with long flawless mixes anymore.

But having say all that, I still love getting on my decks and I still use a few bits of vinyl in my sets, I like vinyl, I always have, I love decks, I love scratching, but times have changed and it's not practical to lug boxes of records over hill and dale. I haven't seen many international DJs who are still using vinyl anymore (Normal Cook et al aside), this fact was 1st brought home to me a few years ago giving vinyl to various Djs and them all asking for it on CD, I make sure there are CDs in all of my Vinyl promos given to DJs now....

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The day I see a digital device you can juggle on, and I mean really juggle, what with those awesome harmonics you get if you cross it just right... That's when I get out the wallet...

I wouldn't say noone cares about mixing though... I do know what you mean about nobody talking about it any more, but IMO that's because the music industry is 95% driven by either money or hiring your mates, which means the decent DJ's often can't get heard over the cliques and commercialism. It's not that people don't care, it's just that they don't know the difference any more, it's just a sea of beige DJ's....

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but IMO that's because the music industry is 95% driven by either money or hiring your mates, which means the decent DJ's often can't get heard over the cliques and commercialism. It's not that people don't care, it's just that they don't know the difference any more, it's just a sea of beige DJ's....

agreed Mr Stryd, that and the advent of DJ Mixed Compliation Albums has definately changed things up.

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Ableton is really powerfull piece of sw but using it removes the need for practicing beatmatching and even worse, it removes the chance of making errors(as i get it).

I like errors, if you remove erors it's like there is noone onstage just a cdplayer with

studio-made perfect mix.

You can't say bad beatmatching is the only way to express yourself on stage.

And certainly it isn't an important way to do so. Or a good one at all.

If you say that, you shouldn't be a DJ.

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