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AdamJay wrote:

anarchicluv wrote: I put that on the TT, then put my cooling pad down, and then the lappy on top of that (NEVER with the TT on; that makes no sense).

good point..
if yer afraid of the magnet folks... just remove the platter.

No, the platter is still there; my board goes on top of the platter.

I too have created my own solution similar to this. My brother who does carpentry made a custom designed board (about an inch thick) that fits perfectly on top of a Technics TT (the most commonly used in clubs around here, of course). I put that on the TT, then put my cooling pad down, and then the ...

Mammalux wrote:You need to go to the audio panel in Live's preferences......now run the latency set up procedure on page 34 of the manual.......it's all there

Ohhh...I get it now. This is the latency within Live that you guys are talking about. Doh! I don't yet use Live...hehe. Sorry, nevermind.

I'm a Firewire 410 Mac user and I feel sorta dumb here because I don't have a clue where to look for latency on the 410. I wanted to check that the other day and couldn't manage to find anything on the 410 control panel that allowed me to see what the latency was set at. Can you help me out?

This is true, I won't be using it to that extreme all of the time, but I do plan to use it to do much more than mix one song into another; the whole reason I would use Live is for its improvisation abilities. So, there is still some concern that i'd want to do things in my set that would just roast...

I absolutely love this album. I consider it my top fave album of the year. Brilliant work with Live, and the track selection is superb (yes, even the Felix track, which I think fits in very nicely for my ear).

You could key in the tempo with tapping so it should not be so hard to do this live. I've seen DJs use Live this way, instead of pre-processed beat mapping (generation of .asd files). Most laptop drives are just now 30Gb or so, compared with lightweight Firewire drives of 160Gb and beyond. It's act...

I'm going to be a getting a 1.33mhz iBook G4 very soon, and I was quite concerned about using Live as my main DJ tool after seeing the "CPU test" post here on the board. Most of the Macs tested were pushing upwards of 50% CPU usage during the test. That's pretty high, and I would hope tha...

It's also up to us DJs and sound producers, we should request good sound from the systems we use. Just going along and play lossy MP3 files over bad systems will not change the situation. --Kent It's really up to the club owners. They are the ones who set the budget. They usually get bids from seve...

Much thanks to everyone who responded. I've done tons of research on both Live and Traktor, and I think I'll be going with Traktor now, and Live later (second lappy). The big deciding factor for me was that Live doesn't yet have support for Mp3's, so I cannot see using it as my main tool (I can only...

What do you mean by preparing the tracks in advance? Also, you mean to say that you can't loop an audio out? Because you can still use pre-made loops. You need to place warp markers so it knows where the beats are. Search on warping. Note "real-time". You can't do it the way you would on ...

http://www.ableton.com/forum/search.php i don't say that to be rude.. but there have been MANY threads about this. do some looking around before you post. Yeah, I figured there were some out there. I have been busy digging through this board but have yet to run into a thread that specifically addre...

Yes. (See my thread where we've got five folks doing just that! ;)) However it doesn't work in quite the same way - it has some major advantages (e.g. as many "decks" as you want automatically in sync) and some minor disadvantages (e.g. you have to prepare your tracks in advance, and you ...

Is it possible to use Live as a DJ application? I know that would be horribly underusing its awesome power, but what if I wanted to just blend one track into the next all night long (beatmatched perfectly, of course)? Is this possible? If so, is it difficult to do with just Live, the lappy and a MID...