New project/concept for those who produce and perform using Ableton
I was talking to a friend today and he said he was thinking about getting into DJing with Ableton. Now let me say he’s been DJing with Traktor for awhile now and is doing some good stuff with it and I mentioned how DJing with Ableton would feel very cumbersome, UNLESS you you get into micro DJing ala Speedy J and Chris Liebing. Instead of mixing track A into track B, you are mixing the individual parts of the tracks and creating a whole different experience.
The problem with this he said is there isn’t very much material out there to do this with. But I countered with, “How many unfinished projects/loops do you have laying around?”.
Just think about it though, all those unfinished projects/loops are potential tracks to use when playing out. No need to do an arrangement as you’ll be doing it on the fly.
Now, this is where it gets interesting. Based on where you are in a lineup, or how you are feeling the crowd, you can take that jacking house loop lets say, and only play the bare bone parts and dub it out into something for earlier in the evening. And the opposite is true as well, you can take a deep house track, add a few more parts, swap out that warm sine wave bassline for something a bit more aggressive and you now have something for later in the night when the party is going proper.
Now this is where you guys come in. Would all you producers out there be interested in swapping your loops with each other so we all can have more material to source from? Include the raw audio loops as well as the midi note loops for people to build on and create something familiar but original to how they perform?
I liked this idea the first time you pitched this idea. Didn’t really grasp the potential of it though. When you put it the way you just explained it here, i totally get it.
As of now, i’ve got about 40 projects laying around unfinished.. only finished 10 of them..
40 projects eh? That’s potentially 40 tracks for your live set! And instead of sitting down and making “tracks” all the time, you can just make “tools” for your live sets. Even if it’s not the most musical track, or has the most depth you can still make stuff that works into your live set, and then from there develop it into a track
I have a lot of loops just laying around that I never really plan on doing anything with. I’m more than willing to post my abandoned loops. If anything I’d just want to see other people complete the ideas I couldn’t.
I’ve considered doing something like this with my unfinished projects, before, but I never put any effort into it. I’ve always thought the idea of never having the same song twice in any set was kinda cool.
Whyte hit it on the head, it’s more than drums. Basslines, synth lines, efx,
riffs, VOX and so on would be shared, and hopefully the midi notes that go with.
Remixed pre-alpha’s could be a great name for the final release… Maybe I could share some ultraprocessed beatboxes… they are not only unfinished… they are still waiting inside me!
