I was going to post up a guide on how i personally use my uc33e with ableton but i got half way through writing my article and realised it was more or less repeating whats already in Condra’s tutorial on the ‘ableton live dj forum‘ so i thought id just scrap mine and point a link to his.

There is also a number of other handy tutorials over there that are a really good read, so head over to the forum and check it out!

*** Edit ***
Riotschool noticed that in the last image, ive left the track at 250bpm… Ive no idea how this happened.
I think i must have hit the ‘:2 / *2′ buttons by mistake before taking the screen shot… oh well!

Just to get things going on the site, i thought id start off with a basic tutorial on warping tracks inside ableton.

If your new to ableton / warping, it basically means that if you are mixing two songs together they will beatmatch perfectly and be in sync with each other no matter what tempo your at.

This means you will be able to concentrate on being more creative with your mixes instead of focusing on beatmatching.

On with the tutorial.

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