TECHNEWS IN ASSOCIATION WITH POINT BLANK’S PRODUCTION TIP OF THE WEEK SIDECHAINING FOR SMOOTH DJ TRANSITIONS


JONNY MILLER SHOWS YOU HOW SIDECHAINING, MORE COMMONLY USED AS A PRODUCTION TECHNIQUE, CAN ALSO BE A GREAT TOOL FOR DJ TRANSITIONS IN ABLETON LIVE


“ONE essential aspect of being a successful DJ and producer in the age of the internet is to have a steady supply of top draw DJ mixes on hand to feed your fans, tempt promoters into booking you and generally to fi ll iPods around the world. The pressure of recording a DJ mix live, mixing with turntables or CDJs, in one take has always been something DJs struggle with, getting the presentation, phrasing and levels perfect onto a recording took time and in most cases, a good few takes. Today however, with Ableton Live at the DJs disposal, anything is possible. You’re limited by how well you know the software and of course, your music selection. One important fact comes to light here: sequencing DJ mixes in music software is by no means ‘cheating’


the skill of the DJ in selecting and programming the music over time remains the same, only now the DJ can add, rework, remix and blend tracks in a way a traditional DJ could never do. Mixing tempos was only ever part of the true DJs skill. In the tutorial above I take a look at just a few of the techniques from the world of music production that could be transferred over and used for making better sequenced DJ mixes in Ableton Live. From the initial idea of creating the blend, I fi rstly look at how Ableton’s fi xed grid and duplication functions can create a more DJ friendly section of music for the job. The fi xed grid function allowing us to select chunks of music from the timeline, once the track is snapped tightly by way of Warping (one of the essential skills of using Live) we


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