Understanding proper signal routing is critical for using Ableton in a professional capacity. I also start to talk about signal routing. I cover external sound cards, audio mixers, and external MIDI controllers.

In this part of the series, we start getting into a proper setup. If you know that your tracks are warped properly, and know your music well, the need to cue incoming tracks is minimized. This video covers basic navigation of the Ableton software, creating a project, importing tracks, adding effects, and doing simple DJ'ing without cue capabilities. headphones, MIDI controllers, an audio mixer, and external soundcard). We cover a review of beat-mixing and the need to understand 'warping' in Ableton, a background on what you need to know/learn about audio mixers before you can go any further, and finally, a quick discussion of optional equipment and peripherals that can make your setup more powerful and flexible (ie. I start off with an overview of what you need to know about DJ'ing and what Ableton has to offer. If you find any of them to be useful, I'd appreciate if you could share the link to this post or to any of the specific videos, to help give them more publicity. You can see those first three videos at this post.Īlthough those first three videos focused on studio-based aspects of DJ'ing and Ableton, I just finished up a second series which focuses specifically on live performance aspects of using Ableton. After all, the original intent was that these were going to be part of a bigger series about how DJ's can use Ableton.

About 250,000 views later between the three videos (and many more since then), I decided it was time to make more. About a year ago, I made three videos to teach people how to produce DJ mixes using Ableton.

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