
Originally Posted by
mostapha
Live can do that. As in, just press play and mime it, and technically the computer is "performing" everything. Clip Automations are really kinda cool as long as you don't push them too far.
When I used to spin with it, what I'd do was cut trakcs into sections. For fairly normal trance (what I was spinning when I started), it'd often be just a few sections to make it possible to skip the breakdown and the big part of the anthem if I wanted to. Unmolested, the song would play straight through as tough it were on a record, but at any point, I could hit a button and change the clip that launched next.
When I moved to more manipulatable music, there were more clips, but the idea was the same...it would play unmolested, or I could re-arrange things right up until the last sixteenth note or so (i ran pretty long latency). Meanwhile, there were drum machines and synths happening (hence the 512ish sample latency), effects that make Traktor's look like toys, and other stuff...all of it automated.
it was honestly the most powerful thing I've used...by far. I'm kind of not sure why I quit doing it. And now with Vestax going out of business, if I find a VCM-600 for sale, I'll buy it just so I could do it again.
The only reason I quit was that it took forever to prepare a set. Each new song I added to be able to play was like 30 minutes of work, and while I had it set up so I could get from any song to any other song, it just wasn't something I wanted to keep doing, and selling the stuff financed my TPro setup. If they'd ever released the Maven, I never would have quit.
So, I get the draw. But....this was in like 2010 or 2011.
Waiting for new features for software that isn't supposed to work like that seems counterproductive when something else has been able to do it for years.
Now...on the Traktor front...I'm honestly not sure what else I'd want. If we're dreaming, I'd like it to accept plugins for better effects. Really, I want to be able to put effects on output busses, not even really requiring mapping. And something like the UA FW/TB add-on DSP cards would be kinda cool....probably not actually necessary, but kinda cool.
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