Zeds Dead Live Setup?
They have two computers, both running ableton live. One of the two guys is using two CDJ’s and a mixer, while the other is on an apc which have approximately 8 pads lit. Any ideas?
Thanks so much,
Jed
As in what are they doing? Sounds like the bridge to me.
Yeah, as in what are each of them controlling? I don’t think it was because throughout their live youtube videos you can see them both on the arrangement screen in ableton live. Seeing them tomorrow night in NYC. Hyped.
Got the video to show?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K915NMIe1E&feature=related..
you can see it here. Just one computer this time.
My money says one dude throwing loops together to make tunes and the other mixes them on the CDJs.
I dunno what a second computer running ableton would do though. Unless they had 2 SL boxes and used one computer per CDJ.
Dunno, but they love to kill the master volume and yell “Atlaaaaanta aaaaahhhh! Let me hear yoooouuuu!!!”
I have a mate who gets drunk, kills the music and screams about how much he loves the police. I love that dude.
I don’t think they can be looping live, because they are playing prerecorded tracks. Could it be effects only through ableton? couple of filters and some beat grids etc?
They are producers so they have all the project files from their tunes. Then they just turn the componants of the songs into loops and they can do a live re-edit of their tune and mix it with serato.
Basically how everyone who produces uses ableton.
How can you mix a track, while opening it on the computer? (pretty new to ableton).. Or do you place all of the clips for the entire night into one ableton file?
Still 2 computers. Looks like a serato box in the middle there.
I’m betting the CDJs are running in Serato, channels 2/3/4 and the apc40 on channel 1 launching clips and samples (maybe effects)
So what your telling me is that they are using ableton and serato to do what TP2 does perfectly…maybe they need to get away from their old hiphop days and get away from serato.
@rukks have you used ableton? its pretty much limitless in terms of what you can do with it tp2 cant touch it i am sure they have there own tricks and methods witch unless they tell you in a interview you ain’t gonna find out
ableton>traktor
eh I like them both pretty equal. I have a lot more fun playing live with traktor.
If it was that simple everyone would be using Ableton for DJing
that is just IMO
just saying traktor is 4 decks or 2 and sample decks and some effects
in live you can have as many “decks” as you like unlimited amount of effects vsts the list goes on,more people use traktor as its a more “traditional” setup
i have tp2 and i love it and it does the job if you use it well and dont need a full on set
i just prefer using live it just suits my style better
This is exactly what they’re doing, I saw them up-close a few weeks back.
Its not like people are out there playing a live set with Reason. If you want to structure a set this way (i.e. triggering the stems of your tracks to remix live) then you use ableton. Its not necessarily about serato vs. traktor, you simply use ableton if this is the workflow you like.
There is absolutely nothing you can’t do I ableton that you can do in traktor. Traktor is just cheaper and easier with some tasks.
@falseads no way are they using ableton to fire off samples. You can do that alone in serato. A complete waste of equipment if that was true.
@jedcoleb generally producers just divide their tunes into loops of drums, loops of basslines, loops of synths etcetc and then they just decide what combination they are playing at whatever point in time. It’s just like DJing but you’re mixing bits from songs rather than whole tunes.
you got inb4 me.