Getting into DJing

[Fingerflexor]

Does anyone know if serato capable mixers can be used as soundcards? My Cousin has the rane sixtyfour and I was thinking of bringing my controller to one of his parties and trying an ableton set through it.

[AxeD]

2x Techics 1210s £300-400 (I got mine for £250)
1x Xone 22 (£250)
Decent pair of monitors/hifi speakers (£250)

Lots of vinyl - Skint for the rest of your life.

Prices based on what I paid for my stuff.

Technics are way more expensive in some countries though.

I'd go with the same but get Traktor to save money/hassle. If you insist on being awesome you could go with
actually buying vinyl.

*Doesn't matter what mixer you use, Serato and Traktor use an external soundcard to convert any audio signal.

[Sexual_Chocolate]

2x Techics 1210s £300-400 (I got mine for £250)
1x Xone 22 (£250)
Decent pair of monitors/hifi speakers (£250)

Lots of vinyl - Skint for the rest of your life.

Prices based on what I paid for my stuff.

Technics are way more expensive in some countries though.

I'd go with the same but get Traktor to save money/hassle. If you insist on being awesome you could go with
actually buying vinyl.

*Doesn't matter what mixer you use, Serato and Traktor use an external soundcard to convert any audio signal.

id go serato over traktor

and i think he meant 'can he use his mates RANE mixer as the soundcard for his controller'... which is a no

[Fingerflexor]

2x Techics 1210s £300-400 (I got mine for £250)
1x Xone 22 (£250)
Decent pair of monitors/hifi speakers (£250)

Lots of vinyl - Skint for the rest of your life.

Prices based on what I paid for my stuff.

Technics are way more expensive in some countries though.

I'd go with the same but get Traktor to save money/hassle. If you insist on being awesome you could go with
actually buying vinyl.

*Doesn't matter what mixer you use, Serato and Traktor use an external soundcard to convert any audio signal.

id go serato over traktor

and i think he meant 'can he use his mates RANE mixer as the soundcard for his controller'... which is a no

for ableton, I plugged my laptop into it once to use serato and I noticed it in my list of ASIO cards the next time I opened up ableton. made me wonder since it would somewhat simplify the process of setting up to dj with ableton.

[Fingerflexor]

the sixtyfour and some other rane mixers have the serato soundcard stuff built in, but I wouldn't be surprised if they made it proprietary to serato or something.

[Sexual_Chocolate]

well it might work then.

was always under the impression that rane mixers were proprietary

[OfficialDAPT]

I use ableton and have an apc40 already.... That's not still djing if I play live with that is it?

[Sexual_Chocolate]

I use ableton and have an apc40 already.... That's not still djing if I play live with that is it?

nope... thats doing a skrillex (eg to lazy to learn to dj)

[OfficialDAPT]

I use ableton and have an apc40 already.... That's not still djing if I play live with that is it?

nope... thats doing a skrillex (eg to lazy to learn to dj)

Ha probably still fun to play though

[Sexual_Chocolate]

I use ableton and have an apc40 already.... That's not still djing if I play live with that is it?

nope... thats doing a skrillex (eg to lazy to learn to dj)

Ha probably still fun to play though

thats debatable, but the point is, its not djing & most clubs will tell you to fuck off if you turned up with that kinda gear (unless you're actually skrillex)

[Shum]

...most clubs will tell you to fuck off if you turned up with that kinda gear...

I wouldn't think so. I doubt OP will do anything more than small parties to start off with anyway.

I'm sure the APC/Ableton combo would work fine for DJing, just get your MIDI assignments on the controller sorted and you're away.

[Sexual_Chocolate]

...most clubs will tell you to fuck off if you turned up with that kinda gear...

I wouldn't think so. I doubt OP will do anything more than small parties to start off with anyway.

I'm sure the APC/Ableton combo would work fine for DJing, just get your MIDI assignments on the controller sorted and you're away.

well if you're using it the same way skrillboy uses his trigger finger then you might get away with 2 or 3 tunes before they kick you off haha

but i guess using it in the same way sbtrkt uses ableton, then you should be ok

but houseparties.... thats more than legit i suppose

[mikeyp]

I use ableton and have an apc40 already.... That's not still djing if I play live with that is it?

nope... thats doing a skrillex (eg to lazy to learn to dj)

he can dj using things other than his trigger finger yanno

[Sexual_Chocolate]

I use ableton and have an apc40 already.... That's not still djing if I play live with that is it?

nope... thats doing a skrillex (eg to lazy to learn to dj)

he can dj using things other than his trigger finger yanno

you're right, he can... hes just really really shit

[AxeD]

...most clubs will tell you to fuck off if you turned up with that kinda gear...

I wouldn't think so. I doubt OP will do anything more than small parties to start off with anyway.

I'm sure the APC/Ableton combo would work fine for DJing, just get your MIDI assignments on the controller sorted and you're away.

Nah they'll book you for festivals and put fuckin 'live set' behind your name on the flyer

I agree it's not DJing when you're using Ableton though, maybe that's why they put live behind yr name

[deadly_habit]

[Attila]

I use ableton and have an apc40 already.... That's not still djing if I play live with that is it?

nope... thats doing a skrillex (eg to lazy to learn to dj)

Am I missing something? As far as I can tell, doing a set through clip launching in Live is more impressive and creative than filtering songs together. In fact, I can't really think of any relevant "traditional djing" skills that are more difficult than piecing a song together (which, given that pretty much all Ableton djs are producers isn't exactly a feat itself). From my own experience it seems that the biggest skills you have to master are reading a crowd properly and knowing your collection inside out, the technical aspects really aren't all that technical.

[Sexual_Chocolate]

I use ableton and have an apc40 already.... That's not still djing if I play live with that is it?

nope... thats doing a skrillex (eg to lazy to learn to dj)

Am I missing something? As far as I can tell, doing a set through clip launching in Live is more impressive and creative than filtering songs together. In fact, I can't really think of any relevant "traditional djing" skills that are more difficult than piecing a song together (which, given that pretty much all Ableton djs are producers isn't exactly a feat itself). From my own experience it seems that the biggest skills you have to master are reading a crowd properly and knowing your collection inside out, the technical aspects really aren't all that technical.

its not really as simple as what you put it to be perfectly honest

[CaveLvl]

Warping tracks in ableton kind of sucks though, i would save for decks and gear/records, but by all means rock each and every party you can, laptop rig whatever who cares

[Attila]

I use ableton and have an apc40 already.... That's not still djing if I play live with that is it?

nope... thats doing a skrillex (eg to lazy to learn to dj)

Am I missing something? As far as I can tell, doing a set through clip launching in Live is more impressive and creative than filtering songs together. In fact, I can't really think of any relevant "traditional djing" skills that are more difficult than piecing a song together (which, given that pretty much all Ableton djs are producers isn't exactly a feat itself). From my own experience it seems that the biggest skills you have to master are reading a crowd properly and knowing your collection inside out, the technical aspects really aren't all that technical.

its not really as simple as what you put it to be perfectly honest

But it's not all that much harder either with modern gear. Beatmatching and all of the inconveniences of djing in the past are virtually gone. Everyone's looking at waveforms regardless of the gear they're using (unless for some reason you're still spinning non timecode vinyl). Seems like the people that upsell its difficulty are the ones forcing themselves to use inefficient and outdated methods.

Unless you were referring to ableton djing not being as easy as I implied, in which case I withdraw everything as I have no experience with it.