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Toufas, can you put the sample back up? I think I figured out exactly how Richie does it, but now I don't have the sample to compare it with.

Anyway, here's how I think it works:
- Use the PSP42
- At least assign knobs or sliders on your midi controller to the "manual" knob (in Ableton it's called ...

Assign the "T" key on your keyboard to tap tempo. Tap to the CD's audio so you get the BPM right in Live, then when you play your song in Live it will match to the beat of the audio on the CD player.

But why do you need the audio coming into live for that. You hear the main audio from the ...

Help, I still don't get it! There's no way Live can pick up the BPM from the incoming audio. Or is there?

So what's the use of the incoming audio in Live?

But how do you start the next track in live? You can't pre-listen without it being audible over the live output, so I guess you have to alternate between Live and CD/turntable?

Oh wait, so the only reason why the audio comes into Live, is so you can let Live do the beatmatching for you? And as soon as you drop the Live audio in the mix, the audio of track 1 in Live is off I guess.

So if I understand this right, if you would beatmatch Live manually, the laptop is nothing ...

shredded wrote:... like the RISE OF NAZI GERMANY, ...

Well they already have the same helmets, so it's a start...

I don't get it at all either. You say you connected the dj mixer to the input of your soundcard and open it in track 1 of Live. So where does the output of your laptop go to?
How can you cue up and start/stop a "set" (whatever you mean by that) if it is audible on the mains? in other words, how do ...