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well, good luck

Well, I think that "Ableton Live DJing" is more about performance. Ok, you need to prepare some stuff at home (warping) but then, during the performance you don't have to worry too much about "tempo thing". Warping + qunatization is a huge help. With "normal" DJing - vinyls or traktor / serato you ...

Damn - I need to uninstall Live

yea, great synth but also CPU killer :) Luckily there are "quality settings" (save some CPU but not so much :D ), so it's possile to set "draft" mode and then export track with full quality. Yes, of course we can freeze but freeze is quite often unavailale (ie. sidechaining).

So, great synth but to ...

try or read reviews:
AKG D5

drum synth: Microtonic

drum sampler: Poise

not sure if it's good enough but try:
http://www.vstcafe.com/2010/05/analogue-drums-big-mono-drum-kit.html

http://www.vstcafe.com/2011/08/777-free-acoustic-drum-samples-nsa.html

http://www.vstcafe.com/2011/07/1000-free-drum-samples.html

http://www.vstcafe.com/2010/03/deviant-states-free-kontakt ...

Just pick Nexus if you really need the sampled stuff. Or buy Sylenth + additional, third party soundbanks which often are pretty amazing.

I like Ableton Live and it won't change ... unless Live 9 would be crap

I think the only problem is no one knows what you're actually doing. Playing your own stuff? Cross fading between tracks? Remixing? Or anything in between.
+1

if you're using classic vinyl, everybody has some basic understanding about what you're doing. If you're just doing some things with mouse ...

Well, mixing in Ableton IS different. Actually it's not a DJing for me too because it's totally different than typical, classic DJ way. I would call it LJ (Live Jockey ;) ).

Mixing in Ableton gives me totally different feeling than mixing on vinyls, or serato scratch or even basic traktor pro. It's ...

Tone2 ElectraX
Synapse Dune

really, there are plenty of such synths

if you're more a presets player then definitely Sylenth, Nexus (Rompler) are your friends.

Well,

FAW Circle
Toxic Biohazard

can load wav files (single cycle waveforms) and are very user friendly.

It also depends what kind of waveforms are you talking about:
- short (single cycle waveforms) - Toxic Biohazard, Cakewalk Z3ta+, FAW Circle
- long (absynth, camel audio alchemy)

yea, great plugin with very nice "reverse module"