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I did an edit on Rekordbox, and liked doing it so might get Ableton. It’s dead easy on the 15 € subscription-version of Rekordbox, you can do simple cut and pastes and keep everything in grid, but I hate the subscription-thing. Also might want to add some beats or something at some point. I trust Intro is enough for editing, and maybe doing the odd mix down the line?

…yeah, should be OK for that, there are enough audio effects to enable some basic edits of tracks.

You might find you outgrow it quite quickly though.

    Has anyone else noticed the strange hot cue behaviour on CDJ-3000s?

    (pressing Hot Cue A on your new track, takes you to the Hot Cue on the previous track)

    I’ve found out the reason / fix if anyone would like to know.

    …not noticed that, but not a massive hot cue guy.

    Does it default to that if you haven’t set a hot cue in that slot?

    Homegrove Just get ableton, it definitely won’t be a slippery slope toward a bunch of synthesizers, samplers, and hardware racks. 😉

        Along_the_Wire It was definitely easier when all you needed was two 1200s and a mixer. Now it’s this compressor colours sound differently and that eq introduces too much low end phasing. 😂

          10 days later

          Amps on Arielle’s birthday weekend I went to a random hotel (nearish Berghain mind) lobby bar to escape the rain and there was a dude playing vinyl only on a custom build (I asked) rotary mixer. Berlin really is like that.

            Playing tomorrow with Denon-players, so googled playlist-transfer again. I can’t remember for sure, but I tried library-transfer in November, and I don’t remember it being this easy, nevermind exporting hot cues and loops. Tried it and it works.

              303abuser 😂

              Just today told a story of when I was doing a 4 hour set here in Turku at an afterparty sometime in 2003, all vinyl. I didn’t yet live in the city, and spent the night at my sister’s couch, then woke up at 4 AM and started hauling two big bags of records three kilometres to the city center for my 5 AM start time. Half way point was the Aura river and I nearly chugged the bags there and went back to the couch. All because I was too cheap to get a taxi. Eventually got to the venue with five minutes to spare, played the gig, it was OK, and suddenly found funds to get a cab back.

              Vinyl, never again outside of home.

                  Homegrove Hahaha I have the exact reverse story. Was supposed to play at 11, go get hammered at 7 with my record bag (I’ll say it was at least 30 lbs, I have no idea, it was just heavy), show up at 1045 and the doors to the club are locked. Go around back and the kitchen guy is smoking by the stairs, said the cops showed up and shut it down. So we smoke a joint with him, then proceed to walk for an hour and a half, carrying my records. I couldn’t lift my right arm for 3 days and had marks on my shoulder for a week. 🤣

                  I love that you actually played after, I couldn’t have done it.

                    Any recommendations regarding DJ software for putting together mixes quickly? Ive never got on with Ableton so looking for something I can lay out 25 or so tracks in sequence with beat matching/fade in/out etc. and maybe effect overlay for segments of the track.

                    Be nice to work on a mix like a project, grabbing 30 min to work on it on the train to work / on the throne etc. Multi tasking like…..