Ableton Forum

Patch · Post by **Patch** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 10:24 pm

DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist and DJ Numark get down on 3 MPCs

frisbeedisk · Post by **frisbeedisk** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 10:33 pm

Did you read the article in future music - shadow is ditching his mpc for live!!

DeadlyKungFu · Post by **DeadlyKungFu** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 10:35 pm

too fucking cool, nice post. interesting to watch considering the 'I just saw myself on stage' video.

Patch · Post by **Patch** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 10:36 pm

frisbeedisc wrote:shadow is ditching his mpc for live!!

For real?!? I can't imagine a more glowing endorsement for Live over the MPCs!

DJ Shadow uses Live!

frisbeedisk · Post by **frisbeedisk** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 11:07 pm

Patch wrote:
frisbeedisc wrote:shadow is ditching his mpc for live!!
For real?!? I can't imagine a more glowing endorsement for Live over the MPCs!

DJ Shadow uses Live!

Here is the scanned shadow interview for download:

http://download.yousendit.com/150550BB73E34220

john gordon · Post by **john gordon** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 11:40 pm

great videeo.thanks for that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1WHIcpk ... ed&search=
there is a break down at about a minute and a half ,that is really awesome.

john gordon · Post by **john gordon** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 11:48 pm

frisbeedisk wrote:Did you read the article in future music - shadow is ditching his mpc for live!!

he doesnt come out and say it, but he must be refering to it eh?
so much for the mpc and live quantizing debate.

Mag_Music · Post by **Mag_Music** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 11:50 pm

frisbeedisk wrote:Here is the scanned shadow interview for download:

http://download.yousendit.com/150550BB73E34220

That article doesn't say a word about that guy using Ableton Live; it says he's employing a live band on some of the tracks.

stale bread · Post by **stale bread** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 11:57 pm

i think dj shadow is using battery alot, never heard of him using ableton

frisbeedisk · Post by **frisbeedisk** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 12:02 am

Mag_Music wrote:
frisbeedisk wrote:Here is the scanned shadow interview for download:

http://download.yousendit.com/150550BB73E34220
That article doesn't say a word about that guy using Ableton Live; it says he's employing a live band on some of the tracks.

Yeah your right, but he's ditching it for the software path - protools - and im sure he'll be tweaking with live!!

j0shu@ · Post by **j0shu@** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 12:09 am

Mag_Music wrote:
frisbeedisk wrote:Here is the scanned shadow interview for download:

http://download.yousendit.com/150550BB73E34220
That article doesn't say a word about that guy using Ableton Live; it says he's employing a live band on some of the tracks.

yeah, thanks for the scan, nice read and all but did you even read the article? ableton isnt even mentioned once....

???

dj superflat · Post by **dj superflat** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 12:51 am

i think it'd be more fun to watch if they were banging on one of those alesis drum pads with sticks (using your fingers can't match the precision you get with sticks, let alone the sheer joy of banging away).

stale bread · Post by **stale bread** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 1:01 am

dj superflat wrote:i think it'd be more fun to watch if they were banging on one of those alesis drum pads with sticks (using your fingers can't match the precision you get with sticks, let alone the sheer joy of banging away).

i think it's a completely different asthetic they're going for, otherwise they'd just play drums instead of turntables and mpCs.

Socketeer · Post by **Socketeer** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 1:13 am

Yeah he doesnt even mention ableton in that interview, he says hes using battery 2 and protools. Who cares what he uses anyway his new album was waste.

dj superflat · Post by **dj superflat** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 1:22 am

but you can't do with drums what you can do with the alesis pad or the MPC, and i don't see how the thing on which you hit pads makes much of a difference (other than it's likely easier to have better touch banging away with sticks (based on velocity, size of what you're hitting, etc.)). so i don't think it's at all like saying they should play drums, just that the way they interact with pads doesn't seem interesting to me (and if you can hit pads in time with your fingers, you can do it with sticks -- we're not talking paradiddles).

don't get me wrong, it's much, much worse when (e.g.) someone plays drums via a midi guitar -- there's nothing to see or relate to. with pads you kinda see it, but with drum pads you see the strike and it resonates with the sound, makes more sense for an audience. just my take.