DJ ing with Ableton

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DJ ing with Ableton

Post by baltazar » Fri Oct 29, 2004 1:20 pm

Hi all,

i have a question - Ableton does not support multiple sound cards. That means i have just 1 stereo output + 1 for monitoring.
I would like to play 3-4 audio tracks at once and control it via DJ mix pult ( Pioneer 600 ). That means i would like to control volume, gain and EQ from the DJ mix and not via a MIDI Controller in Ableton. It would be like a "classic" 3 Turntable DJing with DJ mix.

Is there a way how to do this ?

Thanks

Baltazar
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Post by bod » Fri Oct 29, 2004 1:46 pm

you just need a better sound card with more outputs. try the m-audio firewire 410 or something similar.
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Post by baltazar » Fri Oct 29, 2004 1:51 pm

does it really work that i can connect each audio channel in Ableton to a different audio outpu on a sound card ?
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TAKEN FROM FAQ

Post by baltazar » Fri Oct 29, 2004 1:53 pm

What does this mean ? :

Does Live support multiple sound cards/audio interfaces?

Live does not support multiple sound cards/audio interfaces.

( copied from FAQ )
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Post by serotoninsteve » Fri Oct 29, 2004 2:16 pm

baltazar wrote:does it really work that i can connect each audio channel in Ableton to a different audio outpu on a sound card ?
Yes, you can route the output of each track straight to different outputs on 1 soundcard, without going through the master in Live.
In your case you need a soundcard with at least 3 stereo outs.
In each tracks audio to dialog set the output you need audio routed to.

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Post by drush » Fri Oct 29, 2004 8:30 pm

baltazar wrote:does it really work that i can connect each audio channel in Ableton to a different audio outpu on a sound card ?
yep. if you had an 828, for example, you could do this with 8 channels. you can assign as many outs as you have... outs.
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Post by ianarmstrong » Sun Oct 31, 2004 12:21 am

Gabriel & Dresden went on record at the Remix Hotel in San Francisco as saying they believe within 5 years this type of software will replace CD's and Vinyl as the perfered medium for DJ's.
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Post by drush » Sun Oct 31, 2004 7:34 pm

who and who?
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Post by rowe » Mon Nov 01, 2004 8:53 pm

RME 9652 with with three Alesis AI-3 provide 24 ins and 24 outs at the same time...

Works fine for live recording of a whole band...

/Robert
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Post by baltazar » Wed Nov 03, 2004 2:00 pm

THANK YOU ALL !
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Post by tomperson » Fri Nov 19, 2004 1:02 am

drush wrote:who and who?
Wiilson and Wilber, of course!!! :twisted:
Turn up the radio. Turn up the tape machine. Look into the sunset up ahead. Roll the windows down for a better taste of the cool desert wind. Ah yes. This is what it's all about. Total control now.
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Post by BigRedCat » Tue Jul 12, 2005 6:30 pm

Ah yes, I love the people on here who have no clue about who the top DJ's and producers in the industry are. "who and who?!". Gabriel & Dresden are at the forefront of using Live in a live situation....get a clue.
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Re: TAKEN FROM FAQ

Post by gpvillamil » Wed Jul 13, 2005 12:03 am

baltazar wrote:What does this mean ? :

Does Live support multiple sound cards/audio interfaces?

Live does not support multiple sound cards/audio interfaces.

( copied from FAQ )
Actually, not strictly true. Get the ASIO4ALL driver and set it to control all your audio devices. It will show up in Live as a single device with tons of outputs.

For example, I am using an echo indigo io card (8 outputs) with the laptops built-in sound (2 outputs). All of them are enabled in ASIO4ALL. Live "sees" a single device with 10 outputs (1/2 - 7/8 are the indigo, 9/10 are the laptop sound).

So I connect the headphones to the built-in audio port, the indigo to the main mixer, and set Ableton to cue on 9/10, not solo. Works fine.
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Post by Tuur » Wed Jul 13, 2005 9:10 am

Do you get decent latency in this setup?
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Post by vsmith1 » Wed Jul 20, 2005 3:42 pm

I read an interesting article in Sound On Sound about Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4) in that at an OS-level you can aggregate sound devices, such as combing two sound cards to present to Live (for example) a new sound device that is an aggregate of the two actual physical devices.

You didn't actually say whether you were using a PC or a Mac.

Vince
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