A bit o/t, please bear with..
Being the cheapskate that I am, I went browsing online the other night for
the most inexpensive software based dj mixing application that I could
find.
I downloaded the freeware dj mix program Tactile 12000, which appears to
have been around for a while now (late 90's or so). A neat little piece of
freeware which enables one to beatmix mp3 and aiff/wav (pitch adjust to +/-
8, as on turntables) although it does have it's many limitations (wishy
washy pisspoor scratching/limited creativity with crossfader) and I will
have to split my G4's stereo output to enable "proper" headphone
monitoring, resulting in a shoddy mono mix with which to impress any
innocent bystanders ("Don't worry Gran, it's only Merzbow")..... Keyboard
shortcuts to all the controls APART from the headphone monitoring buttons
(what the kcuf were they thinking???) round out this functional, if
limited, little toy.
Getting my mits on Ableton or Traktor is something to aspire to in the long
run, although for now, what with saving for a decent laptop my priority,
the best possible cheapo alternative will suffice for my needs.
I'm sure that this has been discussed at length by the board previously,
but seeing as folk are discussing Ableton Live, could people ever be so
generous as to offer their recommendations/experiences of using any of the
shareware/freeware DJ mix tools available online, particularly for a Mac
running OSX Panther ?
Keep it country,
bp
n3wjack
<n3wjack@gmail.co To: idm@hyperreal.org
m> cc:
Subject: Re: [idm] Promotion & Beat Matching
15/06/05 11:11
Please respond to
n3wjack
On 6/15/05, wallace winfrey <wally@booyaka.com> wrote:
quoted 3 lines On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Z Moser wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Z Moser wrote:
>
> >quoted 6 lines Zach:
> >
> > Zach:
> >
> > How will this help me? Or are you showing by doing?
>
> Ableton Live 5 will beatmatch for you. Some people use Ableton Live to
DJ.
quoted 3 lines You set warp markers and Live's granular timestretching does the rest
> You set warp markers and Live's granular timestretching does the rest
> (more or less). Live 5 apparently improves this facility by an order of
> magnitude, and throws in MP3 support (something it's never had) as well.
I've heard DJ sets from peeps using Ableton 4 or earlier (I think),
but after giving the demo version a try I wonder how they really do
this.
Do they sample & cut all the tracks to WAV to be able to play them in
Ableton?
That's the only way I saw it possible...
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