essiantial software

[BellectroniQ]

Been on Ableton for a few years now and barely scratched the surface of what can be done with it and learn something new pretty much every week wether its through my own experimenting or through the seemingly endless flow of tutorial vids from the likes of Dubspot et al.
Can easily take what you've made in your bedroom/studio and perform live with it too.

Essential!!

[Bunford]

Been on Ableton for a few years now and barely scratched the surface of what can be done with it and learn something new pretty much every week wether its through my own experimenting or through the seemingly endless flow of tutorial vids from the likes of Dubspot et al.
Can easily take what you've made in your bedroom/studio and perform live with it too.

Essential!!

I concur! ANd I only been using it a fortnight! ABsolutely blown away by it!

[TwistedPanda]

I've used Djay and Traktor Pro in a performance setting and use Live for all my production.

I'm dissuaded from ever trying to DJ with Ableton just because of the sheer amount of work you have to do to prep all of your tracks properly. I am looking into integrating Live for acapellas, though, so I could warp an acapella and drop it over whatever else I'm doing in Traktor.

Djay is great beginner software, I'd almost recommend people start there because it is so simple. You're going to learn the basics and not get distracted by effects or 4 decks or any of the more advanced temptations of Traktor.

[CaptainMidnight]

From personal experience, I think Traktor offers way more flexibility and features then Serato.

shit anything with the "RANE" name on it has about a 200 dollar mark up.

[xtianw]

honestly anything that you like works. get demos, try stuff. rock with it.

mixvibes and deckadance are really good too.

especially if you scratch, mixvibes > all

their tracking resolution is godly.

[Coldfuzion]

I seriously swear I read somewhere that he picked up a Traktor Kontrol s4, hence my post. If he did, why the hell would you use anything other than Traktor? Especially since the S4 was made to fully control Traktor.

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[MrPopinjay]

I swear they have a 1k resolution, the same as serato. And an increased resolution isn't always better. Higher resolution = better at low speeds, lower = better at high speeds.

[Coldfuzion]

I seriously swear I read somewhere that he picked up a Traktor Kontrol s4, hence my post. If he did, why the hell would you use anything other than Traktor? Especially since the S4 was made to fully control Traktor.

-.-

+10,000,000

http://www.djtechtools.com/forum/showthread.php?t=26040

If you wanted to use other software or whatever, why not just wait for the Pioneer?

Is my point honestly moot since people seem to not be paying attention?

[michaeldunne109]

Use Traktor thats about it.. Have used ssl and vdj. Taught vdj was okay found ssl very limiting. Vdj was very good as a beginners software very self explaining. Took me longer to get used to Traktor but have never looked back.

Would never use Ableton have nothing against people who dont i just find all that preparing very boring and stops me being spontaneous.

[tombruton69]

I swear they have a 1k resolution, the same as serato. And an increased resolution isn't always better. Higher resolution = better at low speeds, lower = better at high speeds.

Its quite clearly a 2k res. How on earth would a higher resolution be worse at high speeds.

Do you actually understand how it works?

Yes there are other eliments involved, however both companies encoding aint to differnt so that is going to be negligable