Could you go into prewarping and syncing for us total newbies? I was considering getting into Serato mixing because of how it color codes parts of tracks to line up phrases easily. But I see in ableton the waveforms are monochrome and wonder if there could be a way to integrate a waveform analyzer into ableton for this purpose. But I also have no idea how you prewarp/sync your tracks. Thank you!
I also use Ableton Live to DJ, it's very convenient. Have you ever had any caching issues? I remember it first coming up as my tracks increased which I remedied by upgrading to an m.2 ssd for the cache (source files are on a regular 2.5" ssd) but loading still takes a while. How are your tracks loading so fast? Clips always have to load into cache on startup, is there any way to have the caching folder be permanent? as It always erases when Live is closed. Someone else brought this issue up on the Ableton forum saying the problem of the cache erasing on quit came up in the recent Live 12 update. What are your settings? Is there something one needs to do to optimize Ableton for DJing with thousands of full track clips? I want to make sure I never have caching issues again which has led to audio dropouts for me.
Hi! Really love the video and it showed up fist but.. I don't understand when people work with sound and the sound of the video is really really bad. It really makes your time you put in such a shame. If you any any help with set up, plugins for buzz or mixing let me know. Even if you have a shitty room you can still do alot in the end. Keep it up!
Maybe I missed it....but what CONTROLLER are you using to do all this? Are you just using keyboard on laptop and mouse? Or are you running a midi controller / controllers … if so which ones ?
This is pretty amazing - both the tool itself as well as your willingness to share your impressive knowledge. As a Traktor user, there are a couple of features that I’ve not seen you cover in these vids - and they all to do with the Traktor browser. Namely, the ability to search or filter your large music collection, and displaying key matching or harmonically compatible tracks. Does your tool have these features somehow? Or do you have a process in your workflow for this? (You may well cover this in a different video, so my apologies if I’ve not yet found that.)
Wow really interesting video and software, i noticed that once it detects a beat it holds the note, is there a way to release and then play when the next note comes by??
Dude, I don’t know if you even look at these comments, but I hope you see this. It has been my first month of actually working with any music software (a few days with FL Studios years ago) and I have learned so much. I feel blessed to have started with Mr Bill’s courses and when he mentioned you in Season 1 I looked you up to understand what your techniques are. I started incorporating your call and response from the video you made for Ableton and discovered this family series. It has made so many things make sense and fall into place and I feel like I’m getting an awesome foundation because of you. Checked you on Spotify too and love your music, Corner of Madras is so good. Thank you for just being and if music brings us to cross paths I owe you a drink good sir.
hang on a second, i remember you, i bumbed into you at the rockshop a couple years back when you were picking up a controller or delivering a gig poster and you said i should come check out your show at dark room, said i was DJing at deja vu so i couldnt make it, i was messing about with the new denon prime SC 5000 i think... at the time. we must catch up again soon
I assume the reason why you have this setup rather than just making playlist folders mapped in the 'Places' section is because you've adjusted the tracks with settings that Ableton would need to save in the project for it to be reflected. Otherwise, you can just drag and drop from any of your content folders without loading up other tracks. It will work fine either way because Live is really good but it seems like you could replace all the clutter with just making some folders in your content management and then just drag them in. I can see this view being useful for a short time but if you're playing every few days for a year or two, you end up with hundreds of tracks, which is unwieldy. If you play a couple shows a year, then sure, you're good for a few years.
