Mixing Software?

rdfcpete · 26 Nov 2006 at 12:14

Guys,

What's an example of software that's used by UK DJ's/Producers to mix mp3's/CD's/Wav's etc? I'd been using Traktor DJ Studio 2.5.3 and recently purchased 3.1.1. and wanted to find something to compare to it. A few clubs I'd been in recently use this in parallel with some other track selection software, and vinlyl/CD Decks. It looks pretty cool but is fairly easy to use after my hours of playing around and discovering little buttons.

What could I try?

Thanks,

Pete.

heavy-rotation · 26 Nov 2006 at 12:38

I think Traktor is pretty much the standard, if you're talking about mixing "properly" and not having things pre-prepared.

wez130 · 26 Nov 2006 at 15:23

tracktor s was mentioned, and i'm sure ableton live does it too.

robjf · 26 Nov 2006 at 15:29

wez130 said:
tracktor s was mentioned, and i'm sure ableton live does it too.

My friend has a licensed version of Ableton Live 5 and its an awesome piece of software. He uses in combo with several other bits of software aswell as a midi keyboard, its impressive what he can do!

heavy-rotation · 26 Nov 2006 at 17:02

Live is indeed fantastic, I use it as my main sequencer - but it has little to do with traditional DJing, you need to at least setup the files you want to drop into it a little (tempo, timestretching points etc.).

robjf · 26 Nov 2006 at 17:58

Well he uses it mainly for mashups, bootlegs etc and it always sounds very good.