Please allow me to geek out for a minute.
Attention all DJs: Ableton and Serato are about to do something very cool. They hinted at a partnership last year, and details are now emerging in my inbox. Check it:
The Bridge spans the gap between music production and DJing, creating a natural link between Ableton Live and Serato Scratch Live or ITCH. The Bridge provides a powerful fusion of DJ and production tools, opening a world of opportunities for DJing, remixing and live performance.
The Bridge works in both directions:
Ableton to Serato
The Bridge provides Ableton Transport Control (ATC), giving you turntable-style control of your own multitrack productions. Simply drag an Ableton Live Set to a deck in Scratch Live or ITCH and use your turntables, CDJ or ITCH controller to control the transport.
Serato to Ableton
The Bridge gives you the ultimate mixtape creation tool. Perform your mix in Scratch Live or ITCH and save it as an automated Live Set. This way, you play your mix – better than cut and pasting it together in a DAW – but you also get detailed editing options.
There’s a demo video here. The truly cool part of the Ableton-to-Serato part (first half of the video) is that the individual instruments tracks from Ableton show up in Serato and it appears that you can mute and solo individual instruments.
We DJs spend a lot of our time using EQs to mix instruments from one track with instruments from another. So I might mix the bass line of one track with the lead synth and vocals from another track. But because I’m using EQs it’s only an approximation. I’m actually mixing the lows from one track, which includes the bass and kick drum, with the mids and highs from the other track, which includes the synth parts, vocals, snare drum, high hats, cymbals, etc.
What the Bridge will let you do is to literally grab just the bass line from one track and mix it with just the lead synth and vocals from the other track. No approximation. It does require artists to publish their Ableton masters, but that seems to be the way the world is headed anyway.
This is very cool stuff. Literally the future of DJing.
- mike
elevatorclub.com
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