after a lot of time spent searching this forum for the best and most practical DJ template i stocked to this one, 'couse for me it seemed very well organized and easy to work with.
it was made and written (there's a really good Lesson chapter included) by Chad Carrier, as a supplement to Ableton Live 4 Power! book. i'm sure a lot of you are using this template already, but i wanted to make your attention to it once again 'couse it was originally written for Live 4 and i have added a couple of Beat repeats here and there, min/maximized some tracks (because it's now possible to do that
)and assigned knobs and buttons of my X-Session to it. so, the benefit of this template will find mostly noobs and people who are using X Session to Dj with Live. if it helps to anyone else, even better.first, i'd recommend you to check out the Lesson, it explains really good what's going on in this template. to simplify it a little bit, you have - four decks (A1, A2, B1 and B2), one Cue channel, one Impulse channel and one channel for Loops/Accapelas (or whatever else comes to your mind). there are also three eturn tracks (mix-cue, delay & reverb). you'll notice, i minimized A2 and B2 decks, that's because i don't use them.
now, check out how i mapped keys of my keyboard and knobs and buttons of my X Session. o/p - up and down, q/w/e/r/t - triggers rows. that way you can easily fire-up any clip in your session. every "deck" that i'm using (A1, B1, Loops) have four knobs assigned to it. one to send (to ping-pong delay), two to Beat repeat (Grid, Pitch) and one to EQ3's Freq Low. one of the buttons of X Session is assigned to Beat repeat's "Repeat" button. BR's output is set to Ins, because i've found out i'm getting the best results in that way (no flange). i've also found out that assigning only one knob to EQ3's Freq Low will do the job just fine. i wanna say, you can save a couple of knobs for some other functions, you don't need to assign knobs to every button in EQ3. Freq Low will cut the kick and bass and that's what you need when you mix two songs. if you need Hi pass filter, there is one on the master channel. two knobs are assigned to it
did i forget something...? oh, yeah, there are buttons assigned to the effects on the master channel. on/off of the filter and chorus.
X fader is assigned to... erm...
ok, that's about it. i want to thank Chad again for making this great template and for sharing it with us. great job!
if you have any comments about it, if you'd assigned X Session in any other way, if you'd put some other effects in to it, please share your thoughts here.
i know i'm having a lot of fun playing with it and am quite pleased with the results.
you can download template HERE.
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