I am in the process of swapping my CDJ set up and going fully Ableton. I was wondering what to do about the global setting for quantization. I have it at 1/4 which seems ok ish, but I have to trigger it a 1/4 before I want it to start. Is there a better way for me to set up global quantization? I turned it off and used it but that makes it a pain to loop.
All help much apreciated.
Global quantize when DJ ing
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Re: Global quantize when DJ ing
What kind of music are you spinning? For most dance music, I think the 1 bar global quantization works perfectly fine, just make sure you're counting your measures. Now if you're spinning Avant-Garde Jazz in say a 7/4 time signature, yeah you might wanna turn global quantize off.
If you want, you can take a look at a couple of screen casts i've made on my site that go over DJing in Ableton Live. Good luck!
Here is Part 1 of the Tutorial:
How To DJ In Ableton Live Part 1: Setting Up Ableton And Preparing The Songs
And Part 2:
How To DJ In Ableton Live Part 2: Clips, Effects And Mixing Songs
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If you want, you can take a look at a couple of screen casts i've made on my site that go over DJing in Ableton Live. Good luck!
Here is Part 1 of the Tutorial:
How To DJ In Ableton Live Part 1: Setting Up Ableton And Preparing The Songs
And Part 2:
How To DJ In Ableton Live Part 2: Clips, Effects And Mixing Songs
-Ryan
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Re: Global quantize when DJ ing
Yeah the only thing about that is I have to trigger it 1 bar before I want it to start. The idea I had in mind was for it to trigger pretty much instantly while maintaining quantization. If you get what I am saying?
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Re: Global quantize when DJ ing
you can trigger it instantly just before hitting the .. quant.Undercover Soul wrote:Yeah the only thing about that is I have to trigger it 1 bar before I want it to start. The idea I had in mind was for it to trigger pretty much instantly while maintaining quantization. If you get what I am saying?
that's the idea of quantization. when you trigger, it waits for the next step to start.
so you don't have to trigger it 1 bar before, but WITHIN the last bar before you want it to start. you can trigger it right before playing if you want. do this all the time.
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Re: Global quantize when DJ ing
maybe set every start of audio clip 1 bar behind the actual first beat?
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Re: Global quantize when DJ ing
Yeah I thought about doing that but it makes it a little unresponsive. Like if I load a track up and think I wanna start it now in a split second I have missed the opportunity.