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$a!n+

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  1. I like to play with music in any fashion. Neither is the past and neither is the future. As time passes humans create more options. This is true in everything. When it comes down to it nobody cares what you're doing. It's all about hype,image and how it sounds. If it sounds good, and it feels good FTW do it!

     

    Embrace the new. Embrace the past.

  2. I'm pretty much all the way switched over. I still use logic from time to time but less and less. I still have my tables set up but they pretty much collect dust. With the exception for a quick cut or to pull a sample off. Anybosy made a switch over to a controller based set up rather than a turntable based set up?

     

    I still have that left over instinct to juggle and scratch that I can't get my fix for now a days though.

  3. Make sure the RAM is in order. Sometimes on certain mother boards and Bios, you have to seat the RAM from smallest to biggest. And make sure the ram is seated correctly in it's slot and latched down securely. I would try switching the order of the RAM sticks.

  4. What I am sick of is DJs that suck. They have sucked and always will suck. DJ's that bought decks ten years ago and still can't mix, and they want to tell me I suck because I don't drag my tables to a club. These DJ's mash train wreck after train wreck in the name of being a "purist." I can juggle, scratch mix, blend, live loop compasistions... and it was all rooted around tables and a mixer. The more technology progresses the more I realize that I am not a DJ just as much as I am not a guitarist. I'm a songwriter and a musician. I like to manipulate sounds in real time. Whether it be a traditional instrument, or a record, or a laptop. I want to imagine a sond or song and manifest in real time in front of an audience. I want to perform my music.

     

    As far as Ableton being a crutch well, it's fucking hard to learn! I used to be a computer programmer so I really enjoy coming up with new ways to deconstruct and remix new sounds and songs via midi mapping to my MPD. I feel comfy and at home.

     

    I guess what I am saying is controllerism is a different art form where a lot of the process takes place in prep. You have to be a pretty smart person to be able to program an impressive live set. You have to be a pretty smart person to play a great traditional DJ set. But every asshole with two hands can press play and stop, be it a turntable or a laptop.

     

    The question lies in the skills. The thought process. The idea of creating new ideas. If you can fart on a snare drum and it sound amazing I respect it. That doesn't mean I respect people that fart on drums...

     

    Now where is my snare drum? I got gas.

  5. Records and turntables hurt my back. Doctor bills are expensive. I want the cheapest way to manipulate music with the most creative freedom. Digital does that for me. Granted, my TT's and record collection look great set up in my living room. I DJ'd with wax for a long time.

     

    There is stuff Daft Punk and Justice are doing that wpuldn't be possible with wax. I like new school.

  6. The bit rate is OK, but the recording level is waaaaay too low throughout nearly the entire mix and the mastering isn't great. When I first played it, I thought something was wrong with my sound card. Are you using some new gear/software to record, cos usually your stuff sounds decent?

     

     

    Yeah, it was just a quick recording of a live mix. I'll have to give it a proper looking over. My mastering skills aren't what the need to be when using Ableton just yet. LOL, at you tugging at wires trying to find out whts with your sound card. :d

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