If you get comfortable with preparing audio files with Ableton live, you can
do it all in an evening. Or use Acid Pro, whose beat matcher works if you're
willing to drill down to sample accuracy to set the file tempo and downbeat.
I used the latter method with the 2002 mix at:
http://www.psychiatry.uiowa.edu/~kent/chaircrusher/
I have a whole bunch of disco and early house records I want to mix in Ableton.
Sure there's not the same spontenaity as working with turntables -- or CDs with
pitch control.
I find that it's quite easy to mix with the DENON DN 2000 which is quite old.
I find the downbeat and then recue and pitch the new track until it's tight and
then drop it in. You don't have to refind the cue-point each time the way you do
with vinyl.
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, philippe-petit wrote:
quoted 40 lines Okay, listen to this- when I make a mix, I turn
> Okay, listen to this- when I make a mix, I turn
> all
> of the relevant mp3's into wave files. I tap out the
>
> BPM on a freeware counter then I use Goldwave to
> quite
> crudely pitch adjust. Since the pitch adjust usually
>
> sucks, I isolate one drum loop from the next song,
> paste-mix to the previous song, and that minimizes
> the
> "trainwreck" effect when BPM's go out the window.
> Use
> Nero to take out the 2 second pause when burning to
> disc and BAM- a continuous mix hotter than
> Oakenfold.
> You talk about cheap! Sure, it takes me a month to
> make one mix and is about as fun as mowing the lawn
> with scissors, but it does the job. Basically, if
> you
> have a computer and a shitload of free time, you
> could
> do a reasonable mix using freeware only.
>
> Counts
>
>
>
>
>
> hmm, so you arrive somewhere in a club/bar... with your mix ready.
> how do you adapt to the present situation, react / communicate with the
> listeners, improvise...
> ???
> philippe
>
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