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  • Well thought out setup homie!

  • well, i see this vid is from 2007 or at leas the update, i see lots of midi controllers who are not a the level of this ergonomic, simple, and smart way to work. which in electronic music is not always about what you compose or mix, is too the way you work and method, well I wonder why this companies are not dropping this kind of smartness, but I guess that's better cause everybody can come up with something new in song and ways of work.

  • @archebeats limits are what makes things better, cause one can open a new path and find that the limit is just our imagination and creativty

  • I think I heard pb&j on bmir! what controller is that? nice. Also which plug in do you use for the compression trick>? NIce work.

  • ANALISIS PREVIUS SW-HARDAWARE DJ...SOUND. EN CASTELLANO: PARA DJ COMO EL MECANIZADO SW ATOMIX MESCLANDO MUSIC...PERO ESTO CONLLEVA A ALGO MUCHO MAS ANALITICO....¿QUE TIENES BAJO TU CD/DVD Y FORMATO MODO DESCRIPTIBLE (INDUCIENDO & DEDUCIENDO)?

  • ANALISIS PREVIUS SW-HARDAWARE DJ...SOUND

  • This guy is a genius

  • In the old days, turntables where a universally understood common ground which your audience could connect with. WIth controllerism, the only real common ground is the software so turning your laptop sideways and letting everyone see it is a great idea and enables your crowd to connect with what's going on (for the geeks who need to know that is)

  • Amazing setup, why don't they make things like this.

  • amazing! thank you for the video

  • OMG THE ENDING. IT'S PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIMEEE

  • 2:48 PRIMUS <3

  • I emailed you a few years back and never got a response…. I was wondering if you had a template for smart mixing using all ableton compressors n such…. I’m still trying to find the best method with a xone 4d and an apc40… but I need a good template first. any help for a fan? from anyone reading this really

  • its like Ean Golden minus the wank factor

  • this guy is very inspiring. id like to try to take my djing to the next level by doing something more similar to this.

  • I'm not so much into the music/sound perse (Not that I dislike it....I'm just more of a heavy metal loser) but this man has come up with a very unique way to create/control electronic music. Not only does he do this, but is humble and willing to share his techniques in order help others create electronic music in a fun and unique way. We need more humans like this on this doomed Erthh...Kudos to you, sir!

  • Your approach to music is fucking genius. I've learned more watching this two part video than I did in an entire semester of high school music theory.

  • Thanks alot

  • Bravo! U remind me of 25 years ago. Back then only had turntables.  We was as obsessed as you with organization and customizing. Keep it simple, know the key, and the bpm and the structure of the tunes. It was a paaiiin. But we kicked ass because of it. People as still talkin'. You cut right through the technology and get to and the point the groove. It takes a lot a thought to make it thoughtless...

  • pro

  • What i didn't see was how Moldover was triggering the samples??

    The keys on his modified board where triggering five samples, but how was he navigating around his massive sample list without a mouse??

  • What compressor is he using when "smart mixing"?

  • I will really preciate any answer. Thank You. And Moldover, exellent vid! keep doing this kind of stuff! You are making something unusual: you are inspiring people! (sorry my English).

  • Hi all, please, ANYONE, I have a doubt about the key. How can I know in wich key the sample is? And then, once I know the key ( and pitch it, if necesary)... let's say the sample is on C, wich is beetwen B and G. The correct move to do is to go to another sample that has a B or G key? (because they have more notes in common?) what happens if I go to A or E for example, is it wrong? I have some musical formation, but I just can't get it very clear assosiating with this method.

  • does any 1 no were to get that blue led usb ???

  • I don't plan on being a controllerist however your video was really interesting and fun to watch. I learned a lot - I did not know you could do this much with a controller :)

  • man!!! Youre awesome.. cheers eversomuch!!!!!

  • 1:04 - so what? it doesn't make it better. Its the music you're playing that counts - and where your heads at. Look at Daft Punk - 2 blokes standing there with helmets on - you dont even know its them, let alone what they're doing. But the shows are incredible.

  • It's about putting a visual element into the show, man. Daft Punk don't move around much because a) they're usually largely obscured by their equipment, and b) they have a massive lightshow.

    If Daft Punk were playing in a local bar, close to the crowd, I guarantee they'd be moving and grooving.

  • Maybe - there's a fine line between 'moving and grooving' and 'making a dick of yourself' though. If you have to think about it, probably best avoid doing it.

  • it also effects the songs and how you are, if you're unknown DJ many people not groove, but if you play something that makes people wanna dance or it gets people to the dance floor they're freak out and groove. The DJ controls the dancefloor, if you can't that, then you aren't meant to be a DJ

  • Primus!

    And I saw B.O.B as well. You have my vote!

    The Peanut Butter Jelly Time mix at the end was sick!

  • you're a pioneer! great job man, much love

  • While I'm into very different kinds of music to you, and I prefer to engineer music from scratch, I find your methodical approach to organising sounds and effects very insightful. I've learned a lot here so thanks for sharing your secrets.

  • AMAZING!!

  • damn, you just hit so many amazing ideas in such a short span. Lately i've been annoyed at how trapped by gridding and quantization in ableton and electronic music in general, but you totally just blew that out of the water. BRAVO

    I'm officially going to become a controllerist

  • Just saw this dude for the first time and now I'm hooked

  • damn dude, wow...

  • Is this 'smart mixer' in Ableton?

  • I think he's using setup implementing side-channnel compression or something like that. It's not a drag-n-drop thing that ships with Ableton, from what I can tell, but yes, I think it is using Ableton's stuff to do it.

  • Excellent videos mate!

    I'm not using Ableton or Reason but i still get the general idea and i'm implementing these ideas into FL Studio and my KaossPad 3.

    I imagine these ideas you post here can be generalized for more instruments and software like, connect MIDI-CC message to controller or switch, and then point the instrument, program or plugin.

    But i guess it's up to us enthousiasts to figure that out and share it in turn.

    Anywho ;-) keep it up. Your stuff works wonders for upcoming talent

  • Man I've been so curious how people organize their songs in Ableton. I've never seen a method this way, but I think it's just brilliant!!!

  • Fucking awesome work man, you're doing an amazing job.

  • Been watching these videos for a while now while trying to teach myself the black art of Latptop DJ and it just hit me how brilliant "Smart-mixing" is.

    You need to get on copyrighting that or something.

  • what is the filter thing...... kurzweil..??? where can i get me one of those.???

  • thank you much, very helpful

  • awesome!

  • this guy .. he knows ..

  • something about this makes me want to choke myself just to get away from it

  • I know! It make me feel like choking you too.

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  • I've not heard your sets but what I've heard from some ableton dj/producer mash ups is that having all that sonic control on hands makes it easy to forget the balance of things that's built into songs in mixing/arranging so there's a risk of having too much going on for long enough to get fatiguing and I hope aspiring dj-producer types would keep this in mind.

  • It's a new generation man.. high density.. glitched.. The world is overdue for a musical revolution.. This kind of stuff taps into that in the young mind.

  • Maybe. I believe some of the harsh/glitchy sounds are just a passing trend as the software algorithms get better and start to utilize multiple cores available.

    I would recommend paying close attention to sound of the effects used and how the compressor works with them. I haven't got demos up but with MiniMonsta as effect and SSLChannel with CLA Bass preset and a bunch of stereo plugins to fine tune the stereo image it's possible to sound very close to some good records with no effort at all.

  • i m just left speechless!!!!

    Amazing!!!!

    I feel so little right now!!!!

    Congrats mate!!!

  • mr moldova, you are officially my hero. love my turntables but christ cue my first midi purchase. I salute you and what admirable approach work for you to have arrived at this juncture. outstanding. many thanks 4showing the thousands of viewers myself included whats is going on. this is clearly the way forward.

  • I'm impressed by what this guy does, but did it have to be peanut butter jelly? really?

  • Lmao penut butter an jelly witha baseball bat!

  • My one bit of confusion is how Moldover says he pitch shifts everything to a major key. Then he explains that he keeps major keys in the primary colors and then minor keys in the darker primary colors. Why would there be minor keys if everything is pitch shifted to major keys? Either way this is impressive.

  • It's not that he shifts all key to mayor keys but to: C G D A E B,

    the relative minors are still there.

    Ex: Gminor = Bb mayor, wich he moves to B. There the original G minor wil be transformed into Ab minor (or G# minor)= minor relatove of B. As I understand what he says.

  • nice set of videos... some great tips! Love your controller... is that a touch pad (KAOSS pad?) to the left of the key area?

  • it's just some kind of XY midi controller

  • its part of the novation remote sl 50 or something preeeety sweeeeeeeeeet:)

  • hello Mozart

  • hells yes primus

    say babby

    ps great video

  • Absolutely fantastic. And it's interesting to see how much hard work and innovation has gone into this. Thanks for sharing your secrets with us kid.

  • mannnnn. You deserve to be huge, my friend. Very few live techno artists want to go to these lengths to maximize the flexibility and improv-ability to their shows. I am inspired to see that you have the tenacity to do ALL your homework for live PA'ing. Hopefully I'll get to see you play someday. If u want, please check out my live setup. THX. = )

  • очень толково и впечатлительно.

  • you should see how much kid 606 needs to get all that. sound at the end

  • Brilliant. Happy Holidaze.

  • Is ableton live the best program for DJ-ing live?

    And are you able ro record DJ-ing directly into the program, so you can basically record a set?

    (or 1 whole album in one take)

  • sure. by making a new audio track and resample master mix to it. you can prepare loops live that way or you can record whole set as well.

  • Hi, I really admire your organization and I want to thank you for explaining your method, it is very clear and very interesting, I can understand how much fun you have with your setup. I'm starting to figure my needs and building my own method (I'm more a producer) and I hope I can reach such a level of organization, it's really nice.

    Thanks a lot

  • ver nice also. but how many ram is your ableton using? in my set i have 20 songs loaded and some effects and it has between 400 and 600mb ram. also i cant play more than 5 samples, otherwise the sound stuck:(

  • crazy shit man, good work.

  • wow thank you so much, the most helpful video ive found on here so far. thank you.

  • AWSOME ! BRILLIANT ! THANKS !

    When will your verson of the controler be available to the public ??? Serious !!

    ;-) Bye and thanks again !

  • This is so incredibly helpful, thanks alot!

  • Really cool... Thanks for sharing.. very inspirational.

  • Beautiful man, just beautiful - thanks!

  • hello

    you ae the very first man generous enough to tell and communicate your digital music techniques

    y spent a lot of time trying to figure out how aaron spectre (for example)does his mashups, software and hardware talking. I couldn´t find his methods and other breakcore players so I invented my own technique, but still had some problems.

    have no doubts that i am gonna tel my friends about your tutorials. It helped, clear and easy

    cheers !!!

  • You're a freakin genius! seriously

    I'm intrigued! I really want to try this stuff out!

  • Heavy Stuff Mate!

    There is only ONE thing you should really change ....

    ...your Haircut ... :P ( Don't take this too personally )

  • Couldn't have finished with a better song (y) xD!!! Awesome videos c:

  • You could probably put the minor keys against their relative major, this way you'll be using the same scale although off a different root note. Might not suit, but might work better for you.

    To me A minor playing over A Major is much worse (has a semi-tone clashing) then A minor playing over C Major.

  • It really is quite a good system, but you seem to have this knack for picking the cheesiest and most cliche samples. The excentuated hand movements are a bit over the top too, makes you look like a poser. Work on these two things and you will have a lot less comments from haters on your videos.

  • Accentuated body movements are all a part of performance. They look cheesy when you're 1:1 but in a big crowd from a distance it looks perfectly natural. Actors, Dancers, etc all do this on stage. But yes I agree that close up, it seems a bit over the top. And for the cheesy samples, I agree but I suspect it's just him being goofy for the video. ;)

  • wow youve truly made me wanna throw the decks away

  • man this is crazy! I'm gonan put it on my blog! holla!

  • Great video I learn't alot,

  • thats some insane shit.

  • thank you for posting this!!! bow!!

  • moldover thnkx fer d vids....

    great music u hav dat..juz don bother 2 peeps like...fuck em..

  • ICameAsARat94 go fuck urself aites...

    music express by every people is diff...don't go fuckin ard n diss others..

  • So much work and so much experimenting and it doesn't even sound very good. The music is usually just annoying

  • brilliant video. thanks for making this.

  • What an absolutely outstanding and remarkable use of technology, Bravo!

  • what software do you use

  • PB&J TIME FTW!!

  • Respect. Way to really make the instrument your own.

  • kick ass!!

  • It's really not my style of music but i have to give you mad respect. You not only have a firm grasp of the technology and how to mold it to your needs, but also appear to have a solid background in music theory and studio recording & live performance principals.

    I think it's good you mention the bit on interacting with the crowd so they can see you working because i've been (dragged) to shows and couldn't tell if it was a live performance or simply a recording because they hid behind laptops.

  • I've been messing around with my controllers and Ableton for a while now. But you have an excellent organized approach. Thanks for sharing your techniques. Great stuff!

  • So what would you call the genre of music that this creates? i like it but im mostly into metal so yeah, were should i look to get into this stuff?

  • this is all new to me, but i really don't think controllerism has anything to do with music genre. it has everything to do with "controlling" music. I'm pretty sure you can apply this to any type of music you like.

  • Truly Pioneering my Friend! Excellent!!

  • Absolutely brilliant. Very clear and concise and easy to understand - though difficult to execute! Bravo!

  • thanks for sharing dude... more power to you and your music...

  • I think you got me hooked!! It looks so much fun!

  • hah, and some people see two turntables and a mixer as difficult... yeesh.

  • fuckin awsome shit!

    ive just been converted from djing, feel like this is wht ive been looking for!!!!!

  • see nerds are kool now!!

  • mad skill gotta give you that and lots of creativity grats man keep up the good work

  • Dude, this is so out of my league. Crazy complex music editing within the waveform and stuff....dang...

  • seriously no's his stuff... FREEBIRD

  • dude seriously... thanks so much... i was really unsure of how to take the next step in my ableton, but now I have a lot more confidence to go try some new stuff

  • you're going places

    ..since this was added nov 2007, you probably have already gone

  • Very impressive Matt. I remember the days when we had DSP classes with DR.B. I see you have evolved in ways nobody could ever imagine. YOU GO FREEBIRD!!

  • yoooooo .. tht's kick asss .. u actually rocked wth ur creative juices.. big time stragal to achieve ths concept..

  • REEEEESPEEEEEECT.... How much 4 a show in EU ??

  • Ok, that smart mixer idea is really cooool. :)

    Thanks for sharing so much dude!

  • i have no idea of what a key is. i mix normally, dual cd players and a 2 channel mixer. now that im moving into ableton i see that you can be much more creative.

    ppl just hate digital djs just coz they use the digital aids not for being creative, instead the use all sort of aids just to minimize the dj work.. and thats pure shit!

    but i see that ur creative, and of course you cant make a live production with vinyls.

    thx 4 showing us what you do, it inspires me to do a lot of things

  • yo dude,

    saw your show at supreme trading. it was off the hook. i must say the rest of the night kind of dissapointed me but you held it down for sure. is the last song you played that night on recording anywhere. it was so dope

  • That's awesome man!

    So how should go about trying to implement that super mixer technique in Traktor, Reason, Ableton?

    Is it a plug in?

  • Thanks again for you clear tuturial!

    You are the reason why i bought Ableton, a padKontrol, a midiKontrol, etc. Thanks, man!

  • Love how you use live. I'd like to see demo on your custom controler that shit is nuts. You rock...

  • thanx for the info.

    you da man.

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