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the new echo indigo firewire boxes also look great...

http://www.echoaudio.com/Products/FireW ... th_big.jpg

Sqook, the presonus firebox looks great! How do you have this setup when you DJ? Output directly from your laptop? Or do you have it setup like I mentioned earlier and use a traditional mixer?

Also, do you have the BPM meter in Live mapped to a controller, and beatmatch that way - how do you do ...

I heard the M-Audio's only really had a problem with Macs? And that they worked fine with Windows..?

My understanding for the best way to setup a laptop with Live for DJ'ing (correct me if I'm wrong), is to route each channel from Live into a channel in the mixer. That way would can use the mixer for your typical DJ effects and headphone cue'ing..

So I've been looking at soundcards to buy and I'm ...

people get all in a fuss about usb and firewire... here are the speeds (in case some people don't know):

usb 1.1 = 12Mbps
usb 2.0 = 480Mbps
Firewire400 = 400Mbps
Firewire800 = 800Mbps

now for a single application, like outputing sound, usb 1.1 will usually suffice, as the bandwidth will never ...

thanks for your help guys..

i've purchased the sony A690 laptop today (should arrive in the next few days), and i'm going to get an echo indigo DJ + evolution UC-33e...

i think this solution will suit my DJ'ing.. the sony laptop i'm getting has RCA line in plugs for recording (on the port ...

thanks for the advice.. i didn't realise those keyboards had sound cards too! The only thing is that I'm not sold on USB for sound.. USB is much more CPU intensive than firewire and USB 1.1 has far less latency..

what controllers do people use for DJ'ing? The UC-33e looks the best for this purpose ...

Hi All!

I am about to make some pruchases.. but before I do, I wanted to be sure I'm making choices that will work..

I'm a DJ and play house. I want a setup that will be portable (for DJ'ing), but also be powerful enough to produce music (still learning). This is what I have in mind:

-Live 4.1 ...