The Bridge

DJ Software & Apps Serato
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The Bridge

Anyone else using it?

I’ve had a few good goes with it and it’s damn fun. As a pretty experienced Ableton user, I decided initially to go with dual monitors so as to have the full Ableton GUI open as well as my serato interface; sans Ableton selected.

It’s so flexible, having the best of both worlds, TT’s and controller gear. Almost overwhelming. I would be interested to hear how others are using it.

My basic setup was using Ableton to control a selection of short loops and acapellas, and use some Ableton FX over these. Serato, the usual track mixing / cue points and SP-6 sampler.
I have 3 banks of controls on my Trigger Finger and can swap between 1 bank of Loop / Cue points / FX controls…1 bank of SP-6 sampler controls complete with gain adjustments…and 1 bank of Ableton controls for starting/stopping loops, and using FX.

Anyone elsse on to this stuff?

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Interesting. :eek:

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Got to get round to this

I’m assuming it’ll work with Live 8 and an SL1 box?

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Yes it does…

I’m having great fun with it, it needs a little bit more control so i can choose easily which deck to sync to using my midi controller in Ableton but i’ll figure that out with M4L…

Cheers
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You can just assign controls to the synch1 / synch2 / int buttons for that. No need for M4L

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Would love to see some simple tutorials on using the bridge. I would love to drop some synced samples.

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Intersting, I was thinking about making a short tutorial covering the basics…

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The best thing ive found is BIGWIZ’s routing setup for the bridge, allows for full VST effects in serato. nuff said.

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Do it man! I’ve been searching but haven’t really found anything that was simple basic enough to get me to start messing with it.

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Yeah, that would be cool. :slight_smile:

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OK, I’ll see what I can do about putting something together this weekend

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Anyone on here using the TTM57 with the bridge, i’d love to ask some questions

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What’s up?

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How does the Bridge bypass the timecode signal from the mixer or a Rane soundcard? I tried doing this setup with a DJM 900 selected as the soundcard in both Traktor and Ableton but Ableton just records the timecode signal and no audio from Traktor can be heard.

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I was thinking about using the Ableton mapping for Twitch, and using that in conjunction with serato/Bridge.

This sounds like a ridiculously clever idea…possibly too much for one man to handle.

Your thoughts?

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i think using the twitch is a little too extreme. but make a video damn it!

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Wow - it was ridiculously easy to set it all up. Got the Twitch Live Translator, downloaded an Ableton mapping/project. Fired up serato / Ableton and everything was working ace :smiley:

I just need to wrap my head around this Ableton template and I’ll see if I can’t produce a small set…I was going to make a Bridge video ages ago anyway…

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Agreed - it is a bit of overkill. I think two dudes working off the same laptop could get some cool results with this rig though.
Also, it’s a pretty cool way to get scratching into an Ableton set :smiley:

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The Bridge

Two dudes, one laptop? Sounds like a disaster

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So far I’ve mostly used the bridge for Mixtape, but I’d love to know more about your trigger finger midi maps JPrime.

I’m ALWAYS remapping my trigger finger so I’d be curious how you have yours mapped out.

I’m currently using 2 x Tech 1210’s, TTM57, Novation Dicer, M-Audio Trigger finger, MBP 2011 750gig hd 8mb ram 2.2ghz.