Producing and DJing with Logic

[dual citizen]

Edit again: Where'd you guys learn ableton? ableton-courses.com look like the best for me.

Power through the manual. Search YouTube.....there are SO many tutorials.

Once you have your bearings, just try producing a song and search Google when you run into something you don't know how to do. Most important thing is to spend time producing stuff. It might be a year before you create anything you're really happy with. It's a very time-consuming hobby but obviously very rewarding.

[LanceBlaise]

Where'd you guys learn ableton? ableton-courses.com look like the best for me.

At the time I was producing under the name Tattoo Detectives with another guy who I still colab on things with, Gabriel Ben. We were using Reason 2, this is back in 2004 i think. So he bought the program and we just started to learn it and experimenting making tracks. We mostly watched youtube videos explaining certain things about it and how to do the normal stuff we already knew how to do. We had a background of already working on music in DAWs and with hardware. It realy boiled down to just learning how to activate the internal plugins and VSTs for us. I think you will also need to teach yourself how the theory of the music is put together as well as what you are controlling when you use a vst or a plugin instrument/effect... There are a ton of online videos now explaining how to use Ableton, I truly believe that will be your best bet.

[LanceBlaise]

Ableton is not easier to learn at all lol. Its just the better program for sampling and live performances.

Maybe for you it wasn't an easy learn, but for many it is. I am not talking about how to make music, or how music theory works, I am talking about simply learning how to operate the program. The layout is much easier as well as the more basic operations of the program itself.

[kindaFAST]

researching and knowing your sh*t is first. Learning/knowing your gear so that your sound is unique and professional is second. looking pretty with the latest shiniest gear is a very distant third. When you have high end stuff that's modded with pretty pink chroma caps and the like, your expected to know how to use it and when you don't...not a good look.
there are no short cuts. if your familiar with mac osx than logic is a natural entry point. ableton is probably a bit more all encompassing. neither are easy to learn but as others have said, there is a BUNCH of you tube vids...free education.

[BitPixel]

I also really wouldn't make your decision based on chroma caps...

I'm not, just checking. I love the look of them.

[SlvrDragon50]

There's a page that lists chromacap compatibility if you want to know if your controller can have Chroma caps.

https://store.djtechtools.com/products/chroma-caps

That said, I really do think the Push the best option. If you haven't seen the Jeremy Ellis video yet, you should:

[BitPixel]

There's a page that lists chromacap compatibility if you want to know if your controller can have Chroma caps.

https://store.djtechtools.com/products/chroma-caps

That said, I really do think the Push the best option. If you haven't seen the Jeremy Ellis video yet, you should:

Yeah but ow long does this sale go on for? Until ableton 9 is released?

[AllDay]

Maybe for you it wasn't an easy learn, but for many it is. I am not talking about how to make music, or how music theory works, I am talking about simply learning how to operate the program. The layout is much easier as well as the more basic operations of the program itself.

Everyone I know says the exact opposite but maybe its different where you live.

[botstein]

I don't think I need to pile on and recommend Ableton, but what attracts you to Turnado? I would skip on everything by sugar bytes. Check out The Finger, The Mouth, Buffeater, Stutter Edit, etc. that have the same functionality.

I learned a lot about Ableton from some excellent humans.

[DJZILCH]

i wouldnt dj with logic

its missing some of the critical features found in ableton that is more suited for djing and especially... THE WARPING

i own both being an audio engineering student and every-time i try to warp something in logic i end up kicking myself coz when you get used to ableton's warping engine (Suuuuper easy), logic becomes so annoyingly un-LOGICal that you dont ever wanna warp anything in logic

oh and i got the maschine mikro too - there is only ONe rotatary so if you buy chroma caps you can probably change that one single rotary