Mitch

I have a focusrite 6i6 and it's pretty good. The 2i2 or 2i4 would be fine for you

Remembered to take the recorder with me last night. Here's what went down. Straight disco vibes... Enjoy

Because we all know ableton and not pro tools which means we can help you better. Any DAW will do what you want pretty easy, so using what you already kind of know makes the whole process easier. Learning 1 DAW well is far better than knowing a tiny bit about 5. More productive = more time spent on the music instead of finding what button to click

You can do that in any DAW pretty easy. What do you already have?

Better for your arm/wrist

throwback

Don't go cordless! once you go das you never go back. I'd go for a vertical or trackball mouse though

When I only had a controller, i used to leave it it in library view, pick the tracks i wanted to mix, and then turn the brightness on my laptop screen to 0 so i couldn't see anything. This way you learn to trust your ears properly. Techno is straight 4/4, BPM varies depending on the style, but you'll generally get a constant kick, and it's pretty common to have a ride on the off beat. As opposed to house, where you'll have kick, then snare/clap on the 2. Key is to just focus on the kick. As @NitroMonkey said - the mixes are longer, generally 1 min+, with no real limit to how long, as long as the tracks work together. Find some stuff with dominant kicks and not too much else going on - learn to mix that without visual cues, and progress

Ensure you're running maschine in 64-bit mode too! Otherwise you're limiting it to consuming 4GB RAM Skip to around 1 minute for Windows.

Hey

this

*drools*... wish i could justify buying these right now! Cannot afford. Moved to buy and sell section

You can use ableton (I do personally) but you can do arrangement on Maschine. As Spitty said, listen to other tracks. You'll find a lot of tracks use the same patterns in multiple parts of a song, just with some minor tweaks to parameters.

Not for the wallet

+ a bunch of rare records over the weekend (DJ Harvey, Eddie C, etc.)

Nice. I'll download and check it out. Comparison pdf claims to be on par for accuracy with MIK... I'd be interested to see how it compares to rekordbox, which does key analysis for free also

whoa! You might need to do a reintroduction yourself for some of the young ones @Tomy

rep++

Agree with what Spitfire said - definitely get in and give it a crack! I'm from Melb, not Syd, but also happy to help out over the magic of the interwebs. There's a few Sydneysiders on here somewhere. There's also plenty of stuff in beginners section too + definitely check out mixes in the genre section(s) of your liking, and post stuff up so we can give feedback

Hey There's a few on here from up your way. Hope you enjoy your stay

Awesome. Will be following.

Welcome