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stoke massive eh - used to live that way in my student days.

i can believe you gig with a maya!! ive heard so many stories of taht thing crapping out, ok at home but i dont think i could trust it live. saying that i have a esi u46dj which gets a slating by mac users yet on my pc laptop its fine.

ill drop you a pm stealth, would be good to get something started up north.

out of interest did you already have your macs before you got live or did you specially buy them for live, i went n bought a laptop for live, decided on a p4 dell desktop replacement, heavy big beast but is 3 gig cpu, plenty of ram, screen is a god send being super sharp, i was so close to going mac but price was a massive issue for me, i could buy the mac but not afford live!!! so went down the pc route, ok so its fans are noisy but in a dj situation you dont hear them anyway.

my set up right now is

1 x dell inspiron 9100 3ghz 786mb ram 40gb hd with 320gb external

1 x m-audio trigger finger

1 x behringer bcf

1 x esi u46dj soundcard

all run into 1 x pioneer djm 707 (used to have a allen & heath xone 92, but had to sell as i was skint, i miss it but a £1k mixer is wasted at home)

also have some vestax decks which i run ms pinky on and play the occasional vinyl lol, my room where i keep it resembles a dj version of dixons

klarky wrote:i can believe you gig with a maya!! ive heard so many stories of taht thing crapping out, ok at home but i dont think i could trust it live. saying that i have a esi u46dj which gets a slating by mac users yet on my pc laptop its fine.

I'm not so sure I'd have the same luck on a PC with the maya. It's been pretty reliable so far.

As for the mac, I bought the powerbook for live. I knew it wasn't necessarily the fastest machine but I'd just had a huge p4 dell machine and was sick of carrying the weight around. I also didn't like the way I had to be careful to reboot to get external device recognised etc. The mac I just flip the lid when I get to a gig, plug all my stuff in and go.

ill drop you a pm stealth, would be good to get something started up north.[/quote]

wicked mate, it would be good to get something started up north for sure. Let me know as soon as possible, so I can get a date to work something around, you too Robin.

I bought my mac 4 the general sense of reliability. Like Robin said, I just plug and play, no worries of control surfaces not being recognised straight away, plus its ultra portable.

i'm in liverpool so if any of you lot can put up with a scouser i'd be interested in finding out more!

robin wrote:

klarky wrote:i can believe you gig with a maya!! ive heard so many stories of taht thing crapping out, ok at home but i dont think i could trust it live. saying that i have a esi u46dj which gets a slating by mac users yet on my pc laptop its fine.

I'm not so sure I'd have the same luck on a PC with the maya. It's been pretty reliable so far.

As for the mac, I bought the powerbook for live. I knew it wasn't necessarily the fastest machine but I'd just had a huge p4 dell machine and was sick of carrying the weight around. I also didn't like the way I had to be careful to reboot to get external device recognised etc. The mac I just flip the lid when I get to a gig, plug all my stuff in and go.

sound like i went the opposite way, i got as much grunt as my money could buy, yeah i agree the dell p4 is heavy but i can put up with it, much better than a box of records lol. hmm i have no trouble, but then im only using 3 external things, just boot up plug in, then open live and its all ready to roll. id consider a mac in a years time maybe on next upgrade

another manchester local as well - definitely up for some ableton action in manchester

I'm also a dab hand with the interweb (do mainly web design by day) so if a website and forum or anything is needed I could knock one together with a good bit of web space once it gets going... gratis too

beatnik wrote:another manchester local as well - definitely up for some ableton action in manchester

I'm also a dab hand with the interweb (do mainly web design by day) so if a website and forum or anything is needed I could knock one together with a good bit of web space once it gets going... gratis too

That would be awesome mate. It looks like things could really get going for us ableton lot in the rainy city! The thing we need is a date that we can work around. If I said a week today; i.e 1 week from the bank holiday sunday in May! We could all try and hook up and get something really positive going?

Sounds like we have got the interest, but I don't want to lose that by not trying to commit to a date... If thats not good for you all, thats cool, but it gives us a date to work towards at least.

PM IF YOU ARE INTERESTED

PEACE

i wouldnt say stokie massive - more like half a dozen!

still better than nuthin


check out http://www.myspace.com/holymazzula hes another stokie ableton user - not bad either i dont think..

and http://www.myspace.com/digitalfilthmusic whos just won a remix comp and got it released on spinout records http://www.spinoutrecords.co.uk/


tho hes a filthy cubase user i believe!

did anything ever get sorted?? pm'd but no reply

Yo Klarky,

I've been down south for a while, but will be heading back north next week.

You still interested i take it mate?

yeah - just back here because of the l6 stuff, so was noseying around my old pm's. yeah would be cool to start a northwest type thing, im now getting stuck on stuff dj/production wise and would be cool to meet up with users to actually see how others do stuff

Cool, I know that Beatnik was really interested. Its just fixing a date, time and location to meet up.

I am free all next week, so PM me and we can get this going.

pz