There are lots of good tutorials, some of the best come with Ableton (the manual, and the included tutorial files that demonstrate basic concepts in the app itself with instructions).
Definitely read the manual, particularly sections on Concepts, Session View, Arrangement View, Clip View, and Tempo Control and Warping. And here are some tutorial’s I found with a quick look around:
They’re both pretty basic, so have a look, try some stuff out, and then dive into Ableton’s own tutorials. The things you’ll need to get a handle on are:
- warping
- crossfade
- zooming / moving around in the clips and the arrangement.
- adding effects
- moving between clips in session and arrangement views
- recording
(this is part of a my upcoming tutorial on KJ’ing in Ableton)
Published on
January 10, 2009 in
Karaoke Software.
Tags: djing, free software, karaoke, Karaoke Software, karaokenight, kj, kj as vj, linux, Mashups, setup, vj.
One of my visions is to see somebody DJ a karaoke night off turntables, mixing and scratching with synced video. It’s possible, I looked it up! The simplest way is with Serato Scratch and a $1500 Rane mixer. Ouch. But some clubs have these, so if I ever get a karaoke night at a clubby club… hmm…
Then there’s a $100 solution that doesn’t require any special hardware… Ms. Pinky / Max MSP.
Then there’s the free software / linux route: xwax. Which you can also use with Puredata using this thing. I fully expect to be in the company of tons of linux VJ nerds when I get to brazil. Maybe they can help me set it up. Woo!
xwax
External hard drives are a pain. If you’re a laptop musician, or if you use your external HDD for anything other than automated backup, you should buy a huge internal hard drive as soon as you have $120 in your pocket.
Seriously, first purchase.
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