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Heh, sorry, I guess I should have explained this from the start, would have made a bit more sense. I like CDDJ a lot and have two ideas of how to use it. One obviously being DJing other peoples mods. The other being I have never really been able to strike a balance between the three different things I like about chip/scene music, portability, authenticity and performance, none of the following is in ANY way critical of how anyone does music, nor do I think it is correct, just my take on things for me poersonally. For example, gameboy is "authentic" and portable but not much to it live. My Midibox SID is "authentic", portable but not really something I would want to use live. A combination of Milky / CDDJ would give me a really nice balance of all three, I can sample anything I want from my synths, I can compose in Milky, the live set up is a netbook and a Nanokontrol and CDDJ is super fun to use live.

I would actually be writing in Milky tracker with a view to specifically performing in CDDJ, for example, always putting kicks on channel 1, snares and hats on channel 2, bass on channel 3 so I knew what to mute/fade. Second I would write songs as more or less collections of loops and pad the song if I need to so it would be be 32 patterns long which would mean that the progress bar WOULD be exactly 32 blocks.

The aim would be to make a really heavily on the fly mixable live set and I would always know which blocks were which part of the song and have an almost Ableton like (I actually don't like ableton at all other than the live triggering of loops in performance mode) control over the mod.

I think a combination of 2 of the features I suggested, "play block 1-32" and "restart current block" would still give you pretty fine control over your set. Assuming CDDJ users spend a few minutes listening to their mods and working out where parts of the track they are interested in using in the set are, say they wanted Pattern 11 of a 45 pattern song they could hit for example. "Shift Q -> Restart current block" and be at the start of pattern / block 11 in 3 key strokes.

Something like that would be awesome, if it isn't too impractical. My main thing is I like the idea of having fast and accurate access to different parts of the song. I fell that would make CDDJ a really powerful too for live performance. You could play snatches of patterns or whole patterns in different sequences, repeat the same pattern with different instruments muted etc etc. It might also solve the problem of the progress bar blocks and the number of patterns not matching up.

Yes that was what I meant.

Thanks for keeping the conversation open on this!

Have you tried the midibox projects?

Great, that should free up some UI space so you could put the play / cue / loop buttons on either side of the playlist or something.

Edit - Adding a keybinding/midimapping for Loop left/right deck would be super handy.

Milkytracker then play live with CDDJ!

A SUPER dirty screen cast, never ever done one before and the mic picked up loads of background noise. However you will be able to see CDDJ in action doing stuff.

I actually have things rather nicely set up by midi, the only thing which was slightly unusual was the pattern scan not working quite how I expected but that is no major problem. I posted a whole bunch of (probably impractical and annoying) suggestions on the release thread on Crayolon if you have time to look things over.

Now with added running order.