mike_c wrote: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?
Actually, I mostly DJ with traktor + vinyl. But yeah, with both apps, I just route ports 1/2 to one channel on my mixer and 3/4 on another, that way I can either mix from one to another with my mixer, or simply use the 3/4 ports as a cue channel. I'd actually like to use ports 1/2 and 3/4 as dedicated traktor channels, and then use the 1/2 inputs and 5/6 outputs for ableton as an effects processor on the send/recv. ports on my mixer, but until I have a little more processing power at my disposal, that's not really going to happen. =)
Also, do you have the BPM meter in Live mapped to a controller, and beatmatch that way - how do you do beatmatch with Live? (is it possible to effectively beatmatch Live with vinyl?)
In my opinion, no, I don't think that it's very easy to match live against vinyl. Then again, I'm not exactly an awesome superstar-DJ or anything, but from my use of the product, it's easy to get it roughly in sync, but it's hard to correct live once it starts going off tempo, and you don't always want to correct the record instead (in the case of a record with vocals, etc). Typing in the tempo on the fly is equally annoying, but that's the closest way to get it precisely on beat. What ableton really needs to make this happen is a "nudge" button like traktor has, IMHO. So, when I use live and vinyl at the same time, it's primarily as an effects processor via VST's.
Edit: Yes, it's also possible to map the tempo to a midi controller, but I haven't found a way to make it more precise yet. =/ Each "click" of my uc33 adjusts live's tempo by about .75-1BPM, which is way too much... it might be possible to get it more precise, but I haven't really messed around with this too much, honestly.
