Juggling Loops
Hullo 
now i dont know if this has already been discussed or if its something some of you engage in but ill say it anyway
i know alot of you guys juggle cue points for 1 off sounds (ie a kick)
but have you ever thought of juggling loops. like little parts of a melody so you can essentially rearrange the melody and create new melodies?
sorry if this is a dumb suggestion
You mean like chopping up a melody into pieces and then rearranging everything to get something new but not completely different?
yea exactly
but using loops
so you can change it up spontaneously into virtually anything
it will be completely new but yet the same
Juggling loops and juggling cues is esentially the same thing, the only time when it would really become any different is if your are juggling really really small stutter loops - worth some experimentation that though.
yea i was thinking small loops
of varied lengths
like a 1 beat loop, 2 beats, 3, 4 whatever
so you can just totally mess with the melody
Yeah I use my Nano Pad almost exclusively to do that. The only thing is that it requires a certain amount of planning imo to do something that sounds good.
It’s fun though.
i was thinking smaller then just 1 beat, because its really easy to just hit the cue again after 1 beat has passed. Trying to retrigger the cue in 1/8’s 1/16’s and 1/32’s on the other hand is alot more difficult !
yea i imagined it would take a bit of prep
but with the right melodies/sounds it could produce some really interesting stuff
i would try but dont really have the gear 
…yet
Sure you do, your typing on something that you can use !!!
well essentially you could do any size (im assuming 
slight_smile:
i jus thought i would ask you guys if it was possible/ if you were already doing that cos i had a bit of an epiphany last night… might have been the smoke
true true
but i aint runnin traktor yet
not really possible in VDJ
If you got Fruity, or Ableton (or probably any other DAW software I’d imagine) you can use the keyboard on your computer as a controller.
yea i got ableton
but i was refering to VDJ not being able to store loops
I’ll be honest. I’m not even completely sure what VDJ is…
But if you use a program like audacity to split the sample up into little bits and then load each sample into Ableton it should do the trick… (I know almost nothing about Ableton, I’m a fiend for FL)
VDJ = Virtual DJ
Virtual DJ
just another DVS program
its pretty good if you only want to mix 2 decks
or a cheap DVS solution to Serato
yea that is true
when i originally thought of it i thought about using it in Traktor Pro
which i will soon be purchasing
on a side note - Is it still possible to buy Traktor 3???
What wrong with using Traktor for DVS anyway ?
Why does everyone associate Serato with DVS and not Traktor ? its really weird…
Infact traktor as far as DVS goes is the better of the two systems.
i wouldnt have a clue
never used one
i only used Serato as my example because as you said “everyone associates Serato with DVS”
but as with anything Bento it all comes down to preference (and advertising i guess), what may be perfect for me doesnt tickle your fancy what-so-ever.
Totally subjective
oops 
getting off topic !
haha whoops…
but anyway if someone tries this and gets it to work i would be very interested in hearing the results 