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sounds like live is the tool for the job you want to do. for remixing on the fly, there's no better software

house us about feeling, mood...

find sounds that communicate it

I'm running Live 3 on a 12" alu powerbook, with 1ghz, 512k ram, terratec phase 26, and an external lacie 7200rpm hardrive. very pleased with the results. i use it live for theatre work, and it's a rock solid setup. Panther works smoothly and effortlessly for this type of work.

Screensize is fine ...

I'm in St Andrews. Using Live 3/Powerbook setup, mainly for theatre and film work, but also for some DJing and putting together pure instrumental tracks for a CD at the moment.

Have worked in music tech (mainly in San Francisco in the 90s). Doing a PhD now. Would be interested in colloborations and ...

i've been using live extensively in theatre work, both to sequence music and cues, and also for the performance itself.

you can set up each cue to trigger from the keyboard, or use combinations of cues by using scenes. either way, this allows you to work with very flexible timing and volume in ...

seems like you need to look for a musical solution rather than a technical one. what musical options are open to you when things won't sync up? some kind of transition which isn't beat oriented perhaps...

ACR

does anyone actually talk about MUSIC on here, or simply about gear? who cares what you use, it's what your making with it that counts.

yeah, i use a mac...

Gear:

Mac g4 Powerbook, 1ghz, 512mb, OSX 10.3
Terratec Phase 26


test results - on battery power

1: 6%

2: 28%

live runs fine on my pb g4 1ghz, 512, panther, even with top notch reverb and nine, ten tracks, still only peaks out at 60%cpu.

ACR

i'm also using audacity, which is pretty flexible and seems stable for a freeware editor.

ACR

i haven't ever mixed with cd decks, but one thing i've been getting live to do pretty sweetly recently is to deliberately tweak warp markers so that two or three tracks kick drums phase slightly. it reproduces the old vinyl trick which was always really tricky to pull off consistently. that's the ...

live is completely capable of being your only sequencing environment, but it requires you to think differently about the musical components that you're putting together, since you can't "program" sequences. instead you have to start listening to the audio that each clip contains and tweak each part ...

i've been playing around with numerology, but so far only to generate some clip audio to tweak in live. will get around to sync-ing when i have more time to spend.

numerology seems like a good compliment, since it can generate unusual stuff. i'm not into the usual sequencing gear, since i'm trying ...

Live is without a doubt the most interesting tool for those of us who have always seen DJing/collage as a radical part of serious music composition, and not simply "entertainment".

A DJ forum is an excellent idea...as long as it doesn't descend into genre wars!

ACR