Tekki - you’re not M. Bréqs from the olden days of the Ableton forum?
Are you???
Good tip, thanks… out of interest do you guys just use three bands within your custom EQ8 or more? My hardware mixer (old and crap as it is) only has 3 band EQ for both tracks so would need some getting used to if I switched to more. I like to use the EQ a LOT when transitioning.
You’d disable 5 of the 8 bands in the EQ8, then customise the Q and the Freq. for each of your 3 remaining bands.
EQ8 settings for emulating Xone/Pioneer EQ settings:
I expect Tarekith can give you better info on this than I can…
Loving this forum already, genuinely helpful! Thanks so much for the tips.
Dunno why I dropped / ignored this music thing for so many years… more fun than anything else!
EQ3.8 v2 FTW!!!
good luck on your transition, I personally didn’t find myself enjoying djing within ableton when I tried it out. To each their own and I hope you find what you’re looking for. I have an APC40 at home and use it in ableton but djing via ableton just didn’t seem hands on enough for me as would a set of cdjs and a mixer, although.. i am a slave to my dvs these days.
I use Ableton in Live. It’s solid. It’s great fun, and in party, peoples find it sexier than CDJs.
2 downside :
- warp sometimes fail, you gotta check it before (and you can’t import really as you play*)
- default mapping didn’t work for me, so you need some time to tweak and make you own
- (it solves the “hey , I have this really good song, can I plug my iphone in, so you can play the mp3 ?” situation)
Regarding eq : i use the eq8 + mapulator thing so i can do everything with one button (emulate the DJM LP to HP knob)
I’m very new to DJing, but I already do a lot with Ableton and would like to start doing some mixes with Ableton and my Push/Launchpad. I read somewhere on here though that when DJing a club you are often required to use their gear.. obviously with the setup I mentioned I won’t be proficient using a “traditional” DJ setup with a real mixer/CDJs or a DJ controller. Can I just roll up to the club and hook in my laptop with an audio interface and my Push? How do you other Ableton guys do this?
Nope, sorry. 
But ehm… The reference is a good thing?
Why not?
It should not be any different than DJing with MIDIcontrollers.
I’ve been playing about with EQ8 for live mixing, i.e. controlling the mid range gain and the low and high end Q with the rotaries on my new (very old) X-Session, but I’m not really getting the effect I want. I’m currently set to 200% which improved things a bit, but I can’t escape the feeling that I’m doing something wrong.
Did anybody have the same problem initially?
You don’t want to change the Q (Bandwidth) once you’ve got it set how you like. Just 3 (or 4) EQ bands GAIN is all you want to have midi mapped.
EQ’ing for DJ’s is JUST boosting or cutting certain set frequency bands. Not changing the Q (Bandwidth) of the frequencies being boosted/cut.
Wish there was more Live talk here. Love the group of guys on DJTT but 90% of the talk seems to be traktor related…
/random thought.
One day, when Traktor and Live can PROPERLY sync, there will be some CRAZY talk up in here…
Maybe you should try Bitwig instead of Ableton at the PROPERLY sync part? 
Does it?!?
I haven’t even tried Bitwig yet - but will it follow Traktors master clock better than Live? (Even if I am using timecode vinyl?)
If it does, well then things are gonna change at my house…
How come the gain dial is greyed out on my hi and low pass filters though? I initially thought this is what I should be doing, but Live doesn’t want me to play with those settings for some reason… I think this is where I’ve got something set up wrongly.
Because you don’t want the type set to lo-pass or high pass.
Yeah, whatever you tell yourself to get through the night. 
Nothing wrong with Live, but youre crazy if you think hunching over a laptop and launchpad looks sexy.
Everyone knows how to use a laptop, theres no mystery. Almost all non DJs would have trouble doing anything on a CDJ apart from pressing play.
An air of mystery = sexy.
I don’t tell it to myself, I was told that. Maybe sexy isn’t the right word, but modular setup with live lift many more eyebrows the mini-CDJ-lookalike controllers.
I didn’t pretend I was doing rocket science or that a conventional digital DJing setup was easier to use (I tried, and failed).
As you say : air of mistery = sexy … CDJs and DJ are a part of popular culture , modular controlers aren’t (yet). So it get a bit more attention when it comes up. It’s all I was saying.