Beatmatching and beat mixing is exhausting with Live...WHY?

[jamos]

its deadly accurate when you get used to it, The autowarping isnt great for me at 170+ bpms. I just warp the track every 32 bars WORKS EVERY TIME

[TexasDJ2012]

Here's a great BPM automation tool...it's only for Ableton 9 though, won't work with 8 :\

If someone could port it to 8, that would be awesome.

http://4live.me/post/51193368663/tempo#.UmB0NtJOOSo

[muthafunka]

Grid/realign beats to a click in Live.
Export.
DJ in Traktor.

Why try to play bass on a guitar when you can just play a bass?
Traktor has better integration with dj-focussed hardware, more relevant dj functions and layout, on-the-fly looping, key detection, sample decks, auto-gain, fast collection search, playlists, sort browser any way you want ie key, tempo etc etc. If you have 1000's of tracks Live's browser is .... just not good on the fly.

What do you want to do basically? Have all your tracks load to the right place and anything be in sync when you hit play? I use Live to produce but went back to Traktor for djing, by far the best of both worlds in terms of digital convenience and actually feeling like you're djing rather than working on your pc.
If I was setting up as a gigging dj I'd get Traktor and an S4 plus maybe one of NI's smaller add-ons and be done. You can nudge/brake tempo up/down like vinyl/cd to beatmatch straight out the box and just put the time into warping really live tracks to a click and exporting in Live when you have prep time.
And whenever Traktor finally implements Live-style warping/gridding.....

[Hermanus]

if you prefer crapy dj software like virtual dj stick to it your not gona get far by syncing your tracks an mixing between two songs, i am starting to dj with live and you get out of it how much you put into it

sorry, but that comment is very, very funny!

+1, some people really do put two tracks into live, sync them up and call it dj-ing, i agree, it's fuckin hilarious!

it is called MIXING but the hype with actual DJ's has been doing it I guess.

mixing is not Dj'ing even if in the end the purpose is the entertainement of the crowd.

just a matter of miscalling