who here uses mixmeister?
who here uses mixmeister? Posted on: 18.12.2010 by Loralee Erban I looked down on this program for so long untill recently believeing about a new mix cd for clubs.a way that I thought would be good is to play a mix improvising in traktor so just picking out songs as normal and throwing them together cued up and all time yourself for however long you roughly want the mix. take this playlist then and bring it into mixmeister, drop songs in the same place for flawless editable mixing then export as a wave file... add into traktor and play and add effects and filters as needed then export. this is what I thought might be a good way for flawless mix cd's without lossing the traktor effects. Does anyone else use this program or have another way of doing something similar?? | |
| Verline Sura 17.12.2010 |
Originally Posted by Karlos Santos
point taken |
| nayit ruiz jaramillo 17.12.2010 |
Originally Posted by JesC
Stick em in Mixmiester and go have a cup of tea. I actually use it to make background mixes for a club i work at. Sometimes they have events were they need background music of mixed genres. MM is great for such things. Would i make a DJ mix on MM... Too right i would. Im passed needing to prove anything to anybody. You can make some decent studio quality mixes on MM. You dont really believe all those DJ mixes on the front of magazines are made Live..? Well actually Mr Scruff does em live but that cus hes a genius. Ive done plenty of live mixes, sometimes i just wanna spend more time tweaking and getting them ultra shinny... As long as you arent massively over stating your actual ability then go for it. |
| Nedra Fresneda 17.12.2010 |
Originally Posted by happydan
this anyway, you get better results from ableton. |
| Loralee Erban 18.12.2010 | I looked down on this program for so long untill recently believeing about a new mix cd for clubs. a way that I thought would be good is to play a mix improvising in traktor so just picking out songs as normal and throwing them together cued up and all time yourself for however long you roughly want the mix. take this playlist then and bring it into mixmeister, drop songs in the same place for flawless editable mixing then export as a wave file... add into traktor and play and add effects and filters as needed then export. this is what I thought might be a good way for flawless mix cd's without lossing the traktor effects. Does anyone else use this program or have another way of doing something similar?? |
| Leontine Dorrity 18.05.2013 | I have been using only MM for 5-6yrs and I have done countless mixes for clubs, bars, radiostations and friends. I have not used other software besides MM and I find it extremely simple to learn and flexible and I've been told over and over that my mixes are flawless and flows like a musical journey I don't and have never ever use the SYNC function. In fact I don't use any of the functions available except for an occasional loop... All my mixes are via listening to the songs and editing each track individually , and I like MM because of the ability to drag, stretch, edit and few other uses which i find not available on other software, and I manually edit all the tracks or the entire set directly via the graph table boxes. I believe it's more important to know your music and where to blend which tune to achieve a flawless mix that sets the mood for each particular set than to be a genius at the technical aspect of the hardware or software! Any 12year old can string a bunch of songs together into a playlist/mixset in 5 minutes but only those who know their music can create a mixset that flows flawlessly as if on a musical journey (and this quality is exactly what is missing in most 'DJs' today! |
| Loralee Erban 17.12.2010 | haha so many reply's it was more about "is anyone else doing this or what ways do you??" :P I hear where everyone is coming from and I do work on traktor about 4/5 hours a day with my own 2 controller mapping pretty much made a "pioneer" effects unit out of an old controller that seems to add spice to the mixes maybe I should of phrased the question a bit better as id never use mixmeister live, Ive had it as long as ive had traktor and my omni control and thought it was a load of shit then realised the other evening
that it might be ok for that kind of stuff or even blending 2/3 songs so if that curry kicks in you have a long song to mix into your set so you can go and do your buisiness that kind of stuff?? opening cd's?? Im not trying to say I want to use it to replace traktor because I love the live element of traktor because I feel in controll a lot more but as a DAW/REMIX/RE-EDIT program it seems to be ok. there were 2 songs that I wanted to make a single song out of for ages and I could do this live when playing it but for recording purposes it lacks that crystal quality so I tried it in mix meister and it seemed to work really well, I had been trying the same song in fl9 and samplitude for a long time and couldnt get it right at all |
| Caron Burckhardt 17.12.2010 | Ok, I am way off then, sorry and good luck anyway! |
| Caron Burckhardt 17.12.2010 | Haha, sorry he or she* |
| Verline Sura 17.12.2010 |
Originally Posted by Karlos Santos
point taken |
| Caron Burckhardt 17.12.2010 | If you are worried about your sound you can just use Audacity afterwords to get the peaks sorted out, the club owner isn't going to play your tape in the sense you believe he will, That would make it a full time job for him, it IS to ME all about what tunes you pick at a mix tape. AND if you get the gig that's where you will have to show your skills, not in the mixtape. If he or her likes your tunes you'll probably get the gig, and if you don't end up playing them well live you'll probably not get another one, THAT's why I say work one live tapes instead since you don't have all the time in the world to get good and use the time you have wisely, not in just putting cubes together in mixmeister. Don't get me wrong this is just only my opinion, but when you go into recess and all that and about being a local DJ in ireland, shit man THAT's when you really need skills to get gigs, not good mixtapes to show off at soundcloud if you know what I mean, If you get to be the best one in Dublin you'll get the most gigs and nobody will ever care about how you make the mixtapes, I focus ALL my time on research and believeing about how to spice up the tunes in ways the crowd havent heard before. So put more time and effort inte sampling and maybe getting a "midi trigger" for em'. But then again these are just my opinions, and if mixmeister is what makes you happy, just keep doing that. But I do wish you and Ireland the best of luck! Cheers broe. -Rob |
| Loralee Erban 17.12.2010 | and just to add to that I know its all about the having fun like I wouldnt attempt to use mix meister live because who wants to see someone sitting behind a screen clicking a mouse its just basically, using an enhancement to almost make my "cv" stand out from the crowd ie "a flawless mix" of music selected out of my collection |
| Loralee Erban 17.12.2010 | in relation to the shiftee comment thats where i got the idea from he re-records a blend several times in traktor till he gets it perfect then just joins all his songs together which is what I kind of plan on doing in a way.. ill play my set live but if im recording an hour long mix im listening over average speakers and my headphones the odd time if I have bass to high in a song it may sound grand for the surroundings even through my speakers and the monitor levels arents peaking but i dont hear this usually till i load it and play it in the car wereas with mix meister its still the same mix id do in traktor which im very capable of doing because things get adjusted as they are needed but when looking for a job in a club in a country like Ireland which is were I live where theres a recession and everyone is looking for a way of making money, isnt it better to sell yourself as good as possible instead of redoing a mix in traktor loading it in the car finding out the bass is too low, too high, treble is way too high and having to restart all over or just go back to mix meister and lower it for that song??, I know in a way its cheating but isnt software made to aid us in stuff?? Ive heard of many people doing there mix cd's in ableton then using the likes of serato or traktor to actually play out |
| nayit ruiz jaramillo 17.12.2010 | Lol... You miss the point mate. Making a mix for promotion or of music you love is a totally different thing to making a mix for some club to put or for filling the warm up set when people are coming into the club. If I'm making a mix of top 40 crap I'll do it in mixmiester cus I probably hate the music but I do it cus I'me asked to do it. It's part of my job, it's not a labour of love and I want it done very quickly. Its not one thing or another. No-ones said that they don't do live mixes for the love of it. It's about doing it the way that suits the particular mix or job. |
| Verline Sura 17.12.2010 | if mixmeister or ableton works for you and you believe you can make some quality mixes go for it. imo i would never depend on software like this because like mentioned above i would always want to recreate my sets live aaaaannndddd why the fuck take the fun out of djing?? isnt this why were all in this? love of the music and love of djing?? |
| Cristian Carmona 17.12.2010 | ^Amen |
| nayit ruiz jaramillo 17.12.2010 |
Originally Posted by JesC
Stick em in Mixmiester and go have a cup of tea. I actually use it to make background mixes for a club i work at. Sometimes they have events were they need background music of mixed genres. MM is great for such things. Would i make a DJ mix on MM... Too right i would. Im passed needing to prove anything to anybody. You can make some decent studio quality mixes on MM. You dont really believe all those DJ mixes on the front of magazines are made Live..? Well actually Mr Scruff does em live but that cus hes a genius. Ive done plenty of live mixes, sometimes i just wanna spend more time tweaking and getting them ultra shinny... As long as you arent massively over stating your actual ability then go for it. |
| Cristian Carmona 17.12.2010 | I use mixmeister to make cd's that I use as giveways. I just use it for simple A/B mixing for people to hear my cds at home or in their cars. If people are going to get all butt hurt about cheating by using mixmeister...well get over it, cuz if you use traktor, im sure your using the "sync" button at home cuz no one is looking. Shiftee put out a article on how he makes his mixtapes and he records all the tracks individually and then imports them to ableton...is that cheating too? Dont mean to get all negative but as I always say...Rock what you got! |
| Pansy Shiveley 17.12.2010 | Making your mixtape better than you can do live is actually pretty dumb (unless you have an overload of self confidence). The one thing that counts in the end is the result when you do your thing live, and if you know that the expectations you created are higher than what you can deliver, you're not exactly gonna have a good time dj'ing. Resulting in an even worse performance. Just do it in whichever program you plan on using live, and if it's not good enough, well you better get practising till you get there! |
| Nedra Fresneda 17.12.2010 |
Originally Posted by happydan
this anyway, you get better results from ableton. |
| Evalyn Voges 17.12.2010 | Why do you need a flawless mix? Just use Traktor's cruise feature if you're that bothered. Personally I believe it's mis-selling if a promoter bases their decision on that mix, unless you tell them that's what you did... |
| Caron Burckhardt 17.12.2010 | It rubs off on your mixtapes, I do use it ONLY with one purpose, and that is to convert my files from WAV to MP3's after I am done with them. Mixmeister is really not they way to do it according to me. I mean beat syncing in all glory, but to be a DJ you really need to know how to beat sync without this, and if youre not a guy who uses mixmeister at the clubs, I'd say don't use it for the mixtapes either, I'd suggest use traktor with trial and error( or of course the software that you do use) to record for a more genuin feeling. Good luck! -Rob |
| Loralee Erban 18.12.2010 | how come it seems like the ideal program to make mix cd's ino the whole fun of dj'ing is to do it live but a flawless mix is always good too when promoting yourself to club managers |
| Annalisa Shogren 18.12.2010 | I've used it in the past, but went off it pretty quickly. |
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