DJing in Live 8

[boddhisattva007]

So I'm a little late upgrading to Live 8, I haven't had much time recently to devote to music as I've been in a pretty intensive course learning Chinese. However, I'm wanting to pick it back up and I noticed that when I use Beat warp mode in Live 8, I am getting all sorts of weird audio glitches on my song files. I did purchase the Live 7 suite before (with Live 8 suite being a software upgrade only). Anyone got any tips on how I can get back to playing live and have it sound the same way it did I Live 7? What is the new warp mode everyone is using because beats does not work the same way it used to... Should I go back to using Live 7 to play live?

Please help!!
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[re.mark]

IMO Re-Pitch is the way forward warp-mode for DJing in Live - regardless of version. Complex Pro is the newest warp-mode addition to Live 8, so its worth experimenting with it. I don't find beats mode that useful imo, unless Im looking for a particular effect at extreme tempo variations. Also its worth reading up about the new warping technique introduced in Live8 as alot of people have found the live 7 > Live8 transition difficult because of this. There are plenty of threads on here/tutorials online about it.

[boddhisattva007]

The only problem with re-pitch is that I use mixed-in-key to stamp my songs with a particular code so I can throw them into a mix and know there will be no key clashes.. if I used re-pitch, it would change the key of the song I'm wanting to throw in.

[Da hand]

Re-pitch won't just make the songs off key, for the most part it will make them out of tune (unless they have the same original tempo).

[yur2die4]

Sometimes in Beats mode Live 8 now likes to use the default of warping using transient markers (the gray phantom markers that live automatically finds) as opposed to regular quantizations (8th, 16th, etc.). Make sure that you have your favorite of those selected for the track you play, and of course save. A new feature also is how it handles those slices after playing through the sample. You can look in the manual for additional information (Page 131)