Laptop with Ableton Live & Pioneer DJM 800

El Guitaro · Post by **El Guitaro** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 2:44 pm

Hello everyone. I want to learn how to connect a laptop with Ableton Live to dj mixer Pioneer DJM 800. What you need to do and how to do this work? Please share information and experiences. Thanks in advance.

El Guitaro · Post by **El Guitaro** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 2:53 pm

I have read but I need more specifically, preferably from people who have already done so.

El Guitaro · Post by **El Guitaro** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 3:11 pm

...mix the audio...

El Guitaro · Post by **El Guitaro** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 3:28 pm

A sound card will come if it is outside? Ie I have separately connected to the laptop.

smutek · Post by **smutek** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 3:29 pm

http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic. ... ht=djm+800

Might give you some ideas.

El Guitaro · Post by **El Guitaro** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 3:41 pm

smutek wrote:http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic. ... ht=djm+800

Might give you some ideas.

Ie necessarily need to have a Firewire controller?

El Guitaro · Post by **El Guitaro** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 3:44 pm

smutek wrote:http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic. ... ht=djm+800

Might give you some ideas.

I see that there is a description if you use MIDI. And for another, I can not connect?

smutek · Post by **smutek** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 3:47 pm

No, you just need a way to get the audio out of ableton and into your mixer.

It does not have to be a firewire card.

The more outputs you have on your card the better because each output on your card will send sound out of ableton and into a channel on your mixer.

If you have a card with only one stereo output you can run into only one channel on your mixer.

If you have a card with 4 stereo outputs you can use all 4 channels on your mixer.

Does this make sense?

El Guitaro · Post by **El Guitaro** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 3:51 pm

smutek wrote:No, you just need a way to get the audio out of ableton and into your mixer.

It does not have to be a firewire card.

The more outputs you have on your card the better because each output on your card will send sound out of ableton and into a channel on your mixer.

If you have a card with only one stereo output you can run into only one channel on your mixer.

If you have a card with 4 stereo outputs you can use all 4 channels on your mixer.

Does this make sense?

I can connect an external sound card to my laptop (I have it has 2 stereo output) and a connecting wire from the DJM 800?

Tell me please what you need to have cable to connect your laptop to djm 800 and in what way to connect the wire (I think in the phone)

smutek · Post by **smutek** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 3:54 pm

Ok, tell me what kind of sound card you have please.

El Guitaro · Post by **El Guitaro** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 4:05 pm

smutek wrote:Ok, tell me what kind of sound card you have please.

http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/A ... e2496.html

You can advise audio card for laptops?

smutek · Post by **smutek** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 4:25 pm

Ok, for that card you just need two RCA cables.

It's a really easy set up.

Take an RCA and plug it into a stereo pair 1/2 on your sound card, plug the other end into channel 1 on your mixer.

Do the same thing with the other RCA cable, plug into stereo pair 3/4 on the card and plug the other end into channel 2 on your mixer.

Any tracks you route to your sound card outputs 1/2 in ableton will feed through mixer channel 1. Tracks routed to 3/4 will feed to channel 2 on your mixer.

You really just need to try to set it up and it will totally make sense, it's honestly a really easy set up.

no recomendations at the moment for sound cards, there are a lot of options and it depends on what you want to spend and what you need in return for your money.

The only thing I would recommend is to get something with 4 stereo outs so that you can take advantage of all 4 channels on your mixer if you want to.

El Guitaro · Post by **El Guitaro** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 4:27 pm

and where you want to include wires, if I need (for example) 2 channel?
http://www.djdeals.co.uk/prod-downloads ... 0-back.jpg

El Guitaro · Post by **El Guitaro** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 4:35 pm

2x RCA cable...

...this

http://www.electronicsnmore.com/popup_i ... p/pID/8402

?????

El Guitaro · Post by **El Guitaro** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 4:40 pm

P.S. EFX 1000 need to connect to the dj mixer or audio card?