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January 14, 2016 at 2:07 am in reply to: Beginner Ableton Live User seeks Performance Controller #2337531
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ParticipantBoy, that’s a bigger question than you may realize.
Music production in Ableton is such a broad thing, so the first question I’m going to ask, which will inform pretty much the entire conversation – do you know how to play piano/keyboards?
You aren’t going to be able to replace your Mixtrack Pro with it in Serato – Serato needs a proper bit of licensed hardware at the core of your setup to run, the MTP is, the APC40 isn’t. The other thing is, DJing with an APC (and Ableton) is not meant to be the same experience at all as DJing with the traditional 2-decks-and-a-mixer format, like Serato and that gang. It’s honestly something that I don’t have enough experience with to be able to give you a whole lot of input on.
As a producer who doesn’t DJ in Ableton, I’d say you might be better served by getting something that has actual keys on it. I have an Akai APCKey 25, which has a lot of the features of the APC40, but also has keys that you can use for entering your notes.
This post has been a little disjointed, sorry… at the end of the day, I think the takeaway from this is going to be – make sure you know what you want, why you want it, and how you’re going to use it, before you throw too much money at it.
Production is a very big box to open, a whole lot of fun, but the workflow is something that will take you years to perfect. Do full research, asking questions on a forum is a start, but you’re going to need to really dig into this – not because of the expense, but because you have already committed yourself to a large learning curve.
ParticipantTuned in now… still just gettin’ started, but I can tell from the opening track I’m gonna dig it. Unfortunately, I was right in the middle of doing some production work, so I will have to come back for the full set later.
Participant\o/ Always glad when we can all get along. (I am such a hippie.)
January 14, 2016 at 1:58 am in reply to: What's the best ID3 tag editor to use for a large collection? #2337501ParticipantI personally use MP3tag, which is free.
That said, there’s nothing that’s going to make cleaning up tags on a large connection anything less than a massive amount of work – them’s just the breaks. MP3tag has some features that can simplify it, but you are going to want to get your hands seriously dirty on this one to ensure your tags don’t end up worse after your effort than before it.
Before you start this adventure, I would highly recommend you back up your tracks if you have the disk space, just in case something goes wrong and your tags end up a complete hash.
Good luck!
ParticipantHi, Panikal, welcome!
Participantbob – I don’t think either of you were meaning to sound so confrontational, EDAW’s a good guy, so’re you.
ParticipantHowdy, ringk, welcome!
ParticipantSoundcloud has moved toward policing such things a lot stronger than they used to – at this point, there’s a good chance that they will eventually take down DJ mixes, especially if they’re downloadable (but even if they’re not). Mixcloud is the only option (that I am currently aware of) that actually supports the legal posting of your DJ mixes. HearThis.at is more tolerant of mixes, and won’t likely take them down, but theoretically are still vulnerable to takedown orders, and DJs.com isn’t running yet, though keep an eye out there.
ParticipantAlways glad to help, and it’s so easy when it’s sharing music!
ParticipantThere’s a WHOLE lot of it that’s purely free… I think I’ve paid for less than 5% of my collection, and it’s all legal. Much of it I found on Soundcloud.
AH, here we go… start here:
https://ghettofunk.bandcamp.com/
Ghetto Funk started as a genre, but the guys who drove the style then started a label… The above link is their Band Camp page, where you will find 45 completely free albums to download, which will give you just shy of 200 tracks to start your collection with, and also help you to identify some of the key players in the style.
Glad you dig it! It’s a fun style, this was what made me finally decide to learn how to DJ.
ParticipantHi, Kalon, welcome!
ParticipantYou might like Ghetto Funk… Hip Hop/Funk with a strong dose of Glitchy electronic sounds as well, in the 90-110 range normally, though some tracks do get up to 120. Let me dig up a good example for ya, Slynk’s my go-to for GF.
Ah, yeah… check this *bleep* out man, it’s tight.
This is the kinda stuff I tend to spin (and am working on producing).
ParticipantI’m not sold on name drops myself… I don’t do them myself. That said, it’s perfectly fine for others, it’s just my own opinion for my sound and it’s one I may start breaking in the right setting (like if I finally get ’round to taking a slot on a radio stream or somethin’).
However, if you are producing, I beg of you, please don’t embed your name drop into your released track. I sure as heck don’t wanna play someone else’s name drop in the middle of my set.
I’d make one for ya, I can do good “announcer voice,” but no decent Mic here, sorry. If I get access to one, I’d be happy to. (You shoulda been there the time I performed the real wedding in the club… “LAAAAAADIES AAAAAAND GENTLEMEN, WELLLLCOMMME to the MAAAAAAAIN event!” It slayed ’em.)
ParticipantTight cuts for the first track or two, fitting for the incoming songs from what I’ve heard so far.
Oh, man… for some reason, the link on this page started playin’ at the same time as I was listenin’ to it on Soundcloud, so it started to sound like you were trainwreckin’ like mad when it was just two streams conflicting. Restarting and deleting a LOT of text. heh.
Now that I don’t have conflicting streams, this is a tight mix, great cuts. Not a lot I can offer. Not sold on the namedrop sample, but that sorta thing is a pretty personal choice, so that’s just me projecting my own opinion onto you. Good job toward the center of shortening up the length of each track, good progression from long to rapid… starting out with more of each track early in the mix then shortening it up as time goes on.
Good one, man, dig it.
ParticipantThat’s pretty tight.
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