Djing with Ableton Live simplified PT.1
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Djing with ableton can be fun, with loads of tracks and effects. So many thing to choose from you just can’t stop. I am going to show you a simplified 2 deck setup for ableton live and how you can map it to your mixer.
First off let me get into my setup. I am using a Presonus Firepod FP10 in my studio with various instruments etc… but whats really important here is the midi in the back of my FP10. I am using a Behringer DDM4000 mixer for my dj setup, you can use any mixer you want as long as you can map it to Ableton Live. You don’t need a fancy mixer at all seeing as you are triggering midi, hell you can make your own Arduino controller with knobs and buttons for around a hundred bucks. same goes for audio interfaces, you can use what ever you want as long as you have midi.
In Ableton live I am running 3 tracks and 2 return tracks. In order from left to right “Deck A”, “Deck B”, “Clips”, “A FX”, “B Blank”, and “Master”. I will go into each section in detail.
The master track is dead simple a spectrum to view the waveform and a limiter to keep the mix from clipping too much
Now for the decks i am obviously running audio tracks. On each track I have 2 effects, EQ3 and Spectrum. The Spectrum is just there so I can visualize the waveform if needed. both the eq bands and the eq kill switches are mapped to my DDM4000′s eq sections. My songs are cut up into sections for me to trigger, basically like cue points. Lots and lots of cue points. The clips track has the same effects and is simply used for storing clips. You can add as many clip tracks as you want, this will allow you to trigger samples.
Now this is where it gets fun. All of the audio tracks are set to send audio to “sends only”, this way the audio will come out of which ever send is activated. We have 2 sends A FX and B BLANK. B BLANK is straight forward with no fx. This send is used to play back clean audio.
Now A FX has all my FX on them, also mapped to the DDM4000. When the audio is played through A FX it sounds exactly like B BLANK, that is until you activate an effect tehehehe. The FX that i am using are Beat repeat, Auto Filter, Ping Pong Delay and Reverb. Make sure your order your FX properly for instance if the Beat Repeat is after your other FX when your loop is playing the other fx will not affect your Beat repeat loop.
Now with ableton live you can map the same key to different functions. I have both Send A and B mapped to the same button so when pressed one send goes to 127 and the other to 0 vice-versa. What i can do with this is launch an effect like the Ping Pong delay and mess around with it, then launch a new clip on the same track while hitting the send button on my mixer. this will play the delay effect but also play a freshly launched clip with no FX on send B. The same thing goes for deck B.
This really helps when mixing 2 songs together. You can activate the Ping Pong delay on deck A and have the dry wet filter up along with its frequency and once the clip is at its end launch a new clip in deck A and B while hitting the send button. this will play both decks on send B while the tail of the effect goes on making both songs feel seamless.
Now here is how my mixer is mapped. Red is deck A blue is deck B the green is for all my FX the purple controls channel volume and the white controls the clips and master volume/tempo.
We will start of with the decks. Both the red and the blue seem self explanatory the 3 knobs for the EQ3 and the little buttons next to them for the band kill switches.
For the effects I will start off with the section on the top left. the first knob I have mapped to my headphone volume. the second is simply the dry/wet for a preprogrammed reverb. The the third knob and the button under it activates the beat repeat. it goes anywhere from 1bar to 1/256 bar. The knob and button at the bottom of this section activate and control the frequency of the Auto Filter.
Now onto the second set of FX. The second section up on the mid-right control the Ping Pong Delay. In order from top to bottom they control the height, frequency and dry/wet of the effect.
the white section on the top right simple controls the master volume, tempo fine and master tempo.
the rest of the mixer on the bottom controls all of my clips the crossfader and the stop buttons. On the left the large buttons trigger clips and the small ones trigger the Send. Red is for deck A blue for deck B and green for clips. The small buttons surrounding the crossfader control the stop buttons for all the tracks, the one right above the cross fader is the master stop button. Guess what the cross fader controls… on the right the 3 big buttons control the scenes. The first button ontop of the 3 controls the mater play and the other 2 go up and down the scenes.
Now for the final section Purple. The faders obviously control the track volume for deck A, B, A FX, B BLANK. and the buttons ontop of the faders control the cue for deck A and B. The third button controls the view and shows the FX send on the screen the fourth button is unmapped.
This setup seems a bit complicated to setup but simplifies djing with Ableton Live. The best part i would say is not having to beat match as much leaving you with lots of room to PLAY 
