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Hi...
What did u all used to produce a mixtape...
Virtual Dj or other software???
 
Posted Mon 22 Aug 11 @ 12:07 pm
Depends if you want to do it live or 'produced'...

Yes you can always just record what you're doing as you play, but what if you make a mistake or change your mind about a tune?

If you're aiming for perfection then the way to go is to arrange your mix first, in software such as Ableton Live.

Mixmeister is somewhere between the two. Not really DJ software, but not really DAW software either.
 
I just use VDJ for my weekly Sunday Night Mixes. Any mistake I make is a good reminder of things too improve ;)
 
Try Audacity its free and is good multitrack software
 
jboerlage wrote :
I just use VDJ for my weekly Sunday Night Mixes. Any mistake I make is a good reminder of things too improve ;)


+1, that's how I do it as well. Sure sometimes it takes a few tries but in the end its worth it.

Huey
 
I go live...for 2 reasons..1. thats how I've always done it... 2.people know when they listen its not a multi track produced mix...and now that vdj radio records that's even better...
 
All of me uses VDJ....
 
o i c...
wow there are so many way to make a mixtape...
thx for you all who reply me^^
 
Yups there are many ways, but of course eventually its al about being creative. And in my experience the more whistles and horns, the less creative you get.

When I was a 12 yr old I started teaching myself making music on a commodore 64 by typing over sheet music. You had a total of three concurrent sounds you could produce (polyphony). After getting a midi adapter I managed, with some workarounds, to a polyphony of six on a total of 4 midi channels on a Casio keyboard with 24 sounds. Some years later the C64 got upgraded to an AtariSTe with Cubase and the Casio keyboard to a Roland MT32 and Roland JV880, giving me 16 channels, 56 note polyphony and roughly 512 different sounds. By then it was my sport to pick a song on CD and recreate it as accurately as I could as well as composing songs. Still, very limited means to be doing something like that. I used to be tweaking and cheating to get that specific soundscape and it kept me sharp and creative.

I stopped doing this when going to university and after 15 years of silence I recently got Cubase installed again. But with the huge choice of virtual synthesizers, audio track support, rendering etc etc the possibilities get so enormous that the whole challenge and drive of pushing all boundaries to get to that wanted result was gone.

So yeah its also the same with creating a mix tape. My personal sunday night mix challenge is to pick a genre and make a mix of even to me unknown music. Trusting on VDJ and the limited set of info I have, the scanned BMP and key, the waveform and whatever I hear in my headphones.

Keep a challenge and you'll have the most fun!
 
hi everyone. I want to make a mixtape but I want option that that the person listening to it can jump from one track to another. I make several mixtapes but u can jump track to track
 
I was trying to say. I want want to make a mixtape where some can jump from a track to another on the same mix.
 
I think you will make One Mixtape in this are Start and Endpoints for every Track,so you can spring Back and Forward in it. Think the Name of this is Makers but waiste not whe you can make it,that she goes.

Sorry for my bad English

iself record my Mixtapes with a Denon DN M2000 R Minidisc Player/Recorder,and overgive/Record it later too PC with Magix Musik Studio 2 Mastering/Recording Software in MP3 (320 kbit/s)

greatings ,Dirk
 
I've been doing this for 20 years now. I've always played live. Previously played into 4-track cassette deck, then moved to Mini-disc, then moved to recording into a PC.

When recording into a PC, it's been a single track, and then I used Sonic Foundry (Sony)'s CD Architect to slice up the track into tracks so the customer can FFWD/REW through the songs. (CDA also allows you to edit the PQ codes directly, which is necessary when you are working with a mass duplicator.)
 
If you like on the fly
Record with VDJ and set RecordAutoSplit to yes, a new track will be made when you move the crossfader 100% left to right, or the other way round. Also recordWriteCue set this to yes and then it will make a playlist of these recordings.
 
I used Mixmeister Express for quite a long time. When the Numark controller came out for that and I was disappointed in it's functionality, I started looking for midi controllers and got the RMX, now the RMX2.

It really depends on what type of DJ you are I would say. I am a Hip-Hop to the core, I may play a bunch of different things, but I will cut/mix/scratch all of it like it's hip hop. The only thing I don't mess with much is House but even then I might double them up...

Anyway, I like ME for the precision of mixing, it's perfect (as long as you set your timing mark correctly), easy to put in DJ Drops (just put them in the timeline where needed) and you can do it in CDA which allows people to go back to the previous track or move head from the current track playing.

But since people really don't play CD's very much anymore, I may still work with ME (I haven't in a few years now) but move to "Live" like I did when I had turntables and made actual cassette mixtapes... (still have some...)

Since there are limitations with Content Unlimited, I will be recording externally. You'll have to find the solution yourself however.
 
I know how to make a mix tape. I need to learn how to separate the recording into tracks so I don't get any one big track.
 
please have a look at settings/ (advanced) options
set recordAutoSplit to YES
this option will create a single track when recording, every time you move the crossfader
 
I mostly use VDJ for "live" mixtapes - simply by recording the mix within the software

I then sometimes fix small things (like boosting a track that got mixed with the volume too low) in Audacity

I use MixMeister for very structured mixes, like mixes that has to be divided into sections of 32 bars of each track (for instance for aerobic classes)

I use Ableton Live for live looping - but that is more of a musician thing than a DJ thing
 
Mono Reel to Reel, to recordable 8-Track, to recordable cassette, lastly VDJ. Love Version 8.1, Incredible software.
 


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