Anyone do any DJing on their mac. As a source of income that is. If you do what mixing software do you use?
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DJing from a mac?
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When I started looking into it, I liked the look of DJ 1800.
I downloaded the demo and liked many of the features, especially the integration with iTunes.
However, due to work pressure I never pursued it and then I bought a desktop rather than a laptop so that ended that flight of fancy...
You will also need to have a good look at your soundcard situation if you want to cue and have full-mixed stereo output at the same time...
Edit: Here are also some other user's reviews.
I downloaded the demo and liked many of the features, especially the integration with iTunes.
However, due to work pressure I never pursued it and then I bought a desktop rather than a laptop so that ended that flight of fancy...
You will also need to have a good look at your soundcard situation if you want to cue and have full-mixed stereo output at the same time...
Edit: Here are also some other user's reviews.
I use my mac for live effects...Live Delta...but thats about it.
Other than that, it's Vinyl and CD's.
Other than that, it's Vinyl and CD's.
Not exactly DJing, but I do a lot of remixing. Nothing beats Ableton Live, in my humble opinion. From reading Ableton's forums, it seems a lot of people also use it to DJ.
http://www.ableton.com (there's a free demo to download)
[Edit: Live Delta, mentioned above, is a smaller, entry-level version of Live that is bundled with certain audio cards and interfaces.]
http://www.ableton.com (there's a free demo to download)
[Edit: Live Delta, mentioned above, is a smaller, entry-level version of Live that is bundled with certain audio cards and interfaces.]
I use Native Instruments Traktor 2.5 on my tiBook with an m-Audio 4-channel firewire soundcard, an external mixer and and an m-Audio O2 Midi keyboard/controller...
you can assign almost everything to midi and so I'm able to do stuff pretty fast with the O2 and a mouse...
I also have a third channel on my mixer that I use to plug my iPod or an MPC 2000xl into...
I doubt that there is better and more developed DJ-software out there than Traktor (except Traktor FS which you control through vinyl, but that's way out of my league...)
you can download a demo version of Traktor 2.5 on NI's site I posted on top...
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you can assign almost everything to midi and so I'm able to do stuff pretty fast with the O2 and a mouse...
I also have a third channel on my mixer that I use to plug my iPod or an MPC 2000xl into...
I doubt that there is better and more developed DJ-software out there than Traktor (except Traktor FS which you control through vinyl, but that's way out of my league...)
you can download a demo version of Traktor 2.5 on NI's site I posted on top...
vSpacken