hossegor wrote:ok i got some information from his interview. can someone explain to me what he is really doing ? final scratch into ableton ???
trance.nu: When you are DJ-ing, you’re using Ableton Live a lot. What do you like so much about it?
Paul van Dyk: I’m not just use Ableton Live, I use a combination between Scratch Live and Ableton. I have 2 computers with me and I’m basicly using Scratch Live with time coded CD’s. That signal actually goes into the interface of Ableton Live. Within Ableton Live I have the possibility then to do the craziest things, because it’s a combination of a DJ program with a sequencer program. That obviously enables you to sort of re-arrange the whole track. It’s much more actually like playing live then rather DJ-ing in a normal way of how some people understand it. It’s crazy all the possibilities you have and the options of being creative they are just endless! Electronic music has always been about breaking the boundaries on the creative level as much as on the technological side. And by using those elements of course and these programs and computers and stuff, you can actually push the boundaries again! It makes something even more special. Because of the set up, I can never ever play a track the same way, because it’s always somehow different, it’s always a different thing. That makes it even more unique on one hand, but it also makes it more special to the actual event itself. For example, I can take elements of the track away and just play the strings, the drums or whatever.[/b]
Trance.nu: So you have special CD’s for that, since you can remove some parts?
Paul van Dyk: No, it’s a DJ program and it works a bit the same as Final Scratch. With the older systems you had a beeping noise, a time code, on the vinyl. That time code was actually translated through an interface. So the computer program knows exactly where the time code is. And then you hav a program, like a window, where you use something like a virtual card slot. So you can load a track into it. That is similar with Scratch Live, but instead of using analog vinyl, I use a CD with a time code. And that goes into the one computer, usually on my left side. And then this signal, instead of going into the mixer to be mixed, goes straight into the other computer through another interface that’s connected with the other computer on the right side, which drives the Ableton. It’s quite a tricky set up, but it’s great! It’s an amazing way of doing what I do now!
Trance.nu: But do you always use Ableton in your DJ-sets now or do you also still play with CD’s and vinyls in your sets?
Paul van Dyk: I don’t play vinyls. But what I do is pretty much like playing with CD’s. Actually I’m not putting a CD with music there in anymore, because there is the time code on the CD. All I do is skip the CD to the beginning, so the computer program knows it’s in the beginning of the track. Then I load a track in and then I’ll play it!
Trance.nu: If you werent a DJ, what occupation do you think you would have?
Paul van Dyk: I don’t know… Maybe I would be a cook!
Trance.nu: Your latest mixcompilation The Politics Of Dancing Part 2 was recently released. How are the reactions on this one so far?
Paul van Dyk: Very good! You know, people really understood the special approach of how the mix was done. I always said that I don’t really like DJ mix CD’s, because you never can really capture the atmosphere of a club night or an event on a CD. So this is more like a technical concept about combining all the things that I’m doing: Being a DJ, being a musician and being a producer. Imagine track 11, you have the drums and then you take the bassline of track 7 together with the strings of track 5. And it all works harmonic together. This is what the CD does!
that makes NO sense at all!
CD's with timecode?? WTF???
