What are you going to be using as sources?
If I were in your position, I’d seriously consider just using the Push and either DJ with Live or route the DJ app (e.g., Traktor) into it. If you’re used to Live’s Session workflow, that might be the easiest thing. And with 80s music, you’ll also be able to “fix” the live drummers.
If you went that way, the way I’d set it up (at first) would be to distribute your clips into 4 groups and double them into tracks.
So, session would look like
song 1 - song 1 - song 4 - song 4 - song 7 - song 7 - song 10 - song 10
song 2 - song 2 - song 5 - song 5 - song 8 - song 8 - song 11 - song 11
song 3 - song 3 - song 6 - song 6 - song 9 - song 9 - song 12 - song 12
etc.
for a start.
You can get from any track to any other track, and you could potentially go from one track to another part of the same track or layer-in a loop from a different part of the track to re-arrange the structure.
Or, you could chop them up more to do other things…but with “80s music” being the only descriptor, I’d be wary about that.
Then, I’d just use the channel volumes to mix (with a Utility plugin to eliminate the extra gain at the top of the level). There’s no reason to worry about effects at first, and I don’t think I’ve ever used a crossfader. No one ever really does unless you’re scratching. I used to spin in live like that with a vcm-600.
The controller was actually overkill for what I was doing, except it didn’t have a super-convenient way to launch clips. The way it did it was ingenious, but that’s why I eventually sold it. 90% of the controller was useless to me, and it didn’t have Push’s awesome pad grid.
There’s a lot more you can do with that, but it’ll take a while to get used to it and figure out what you actually want to do.
