traktor beatexperimenting instead of live

InaBalloon · Post by **InaBalloon** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 8:13 am

I soleley used to produce at home with live. And dj with vinyl. Recently performed live with live on a latop and found out i want to mix and remix live with other tracks and my own. I just like to make scetches of my own tracks and use the looping on the fly function of traktor to remix it live on a performance, with tracks from beatport. You guys think this will be possible, without limiting to much without using live?
Any input very appriciated, thanks

honsey · Post by **honsey** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 2:08 pm

you can sync live and traktor via midi. so i would use both to be more flexible...
the tracks in traktor will define the bpm and you can fire your loops in live.

Moody · Post by **Moody** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:41 pm

Check out the latest NI Hawtin videos. Interesting stuff!

nbinder · Post by **nbinder** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 11:26 pm

Funny... he's doing basically pretty much the same thing as me, has similar opinions, except for some basic design descisions I've made:

- No computer screen in front of me, last gig I didn't even touch the computer (thanks to the Lemur, which is also a screen but laying down... makes a huge difference I think)
- beat repeat instead of loop length (because until now I couldn't get the loop parameters correctly mapped, I still don't get the loop on/off out of Live, so I only use buttons to set a loop and then alter it with the beat repeats)
- Different Fx, also additional synths
- Live instead of Traktor

I think we're talking about an exciting new approach inbetween deejaying and live playing and if you come up with new ideas or videos, let us know.

Good Luck!

Moody · Post by **Moody** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 2:39 am

nbinder wrote:Funny... he's doing basically pretty much the same thing as me, has similar opinions, except for some basic design descisions I've made:

- No computer screen in front of me, last gig I didn't even touch the computer (thanks to the Lemur, which is also a screen but laying down... makes a huge difference I think)
- beat repeat instead of loop length (because until now I couldn't get the loop parameters correctly mapped, I still don't get the loop on/off out of Live, so I only use buttons to set a loop and then alter it with the beat repeats)
- Different Fx, also additional synths
- Live instead of Traktor

I think we're talking about an exciting new approach inbetween deejaying and live playing and if you come up with new ideas or videos, let us know.

Good Luck!

Sounds exciting; any video of some of the action?

nbinder · Post by **nbinder** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 3:16 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aps2HSc2YCI

The videos shows only the browser and the player interfaces. My work on it has progressed very much in the meantime, I'll make a new video soon (hopefully

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Atomikat · Post by **Atomikat** » Fri Sep 05, 2008 4:31 am

It's funny, with Live you can do all of that and much more...

roby · Post by **roby** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 7:59 pm

InaBalloon wrote:I soleley used to produce at home with live. And dj with vinyl. Recently performed live with live on a latop and found out i want to mix and remix live with other tracks and my own. I just like to make scetches of my own tracks and use the looping on the fly function of traktor to remix it live on a performance, with tracks from beatport. You guys think this will be possible, without limiting to much without using live?
Any input very appriciated, thanks

you can have up to 4 decks running in Traktor, so you could use, let's say the first two for your BEatport tracks, and the second two for your own loops.

InaBalloon · Post by **InaBalloon** » Sun Sep 14, 2008 1:46 pm

Moody wrote:Check out the latest NI Hawtin videos. Interesting stuff!

Yes, thanks for the tip, allready viewed them, allmost exactly what I want to do with it

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