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...is pretty sexy.

I've been too busy with work / school to really dig into it, but I dig the new sequencer and have spent hours playing with Thor.

Planning on Rewiring it into Live this weekend. My new frankenstein PC should be able to handle the load, but we'll see...

Anyone else tried it yet?

When I was first toying with the idea of DJing in live, I had my Axiom rigged so the 9th slider adjusted the tempo in a specific range. For example, I had a bunch of tracks with around the same tempo, 127-132 BPM, so I'd pick a minimum of 125 (MIDI 0) and a max of 135 (MIDI 127). When I was on Live ...

Guy with beard looks almost exactly like the mugger from 5th Element:


GIMME DE CASH!!!!

If you going to pay money for a piece of software, don't you think you should have done your research to ensure its right for you before shelling out?

I was almost ready to give up until I explored these forums and found all kinds of great tutorials and tricks. No offense to ableton, but the ...

Link anyone?

My ex-roommate suggested starting with vinyl to better learn the flow of the DJing art-form. This is a guy who can pull a Jeff Mills playing on three decks at once. I'm glad he sugested it because I find it more intimate this way (it's the touching :wink: ).

When I go clubbing, the DJ in me can't ...

there are vista threads all over the forum....

I've had trouble with onboard sound lagging out on laptops, even Macs. If you want it to run reliably, invest in an external card. Go FireWire if your laptop has a 6 pin port. Otherwise, RME makes a nice and reasonably priced CardBus interface.

It happened to me last year. I was (and still am) running a custom built PC with a P4 3.0 GHz, ass-loads of RAM, etc. I had about 8 tracks going each playing a seperate 24-bit sample, a couple of the built-in comps. Added a 3rd and it blew up at 800% CPU. Scared the crap outta me, I didn't touch the ...

This is my first post too! how appropriate 8)

Here's as non-technical an explanation as I can come up with:

PC keyboards are really, really simple. a keystroke to a computer is as natural for it as us breathing. MIDI passes through additional layers of hardware and software before it does ...