Quote Originally Posted by Matt Jones
I don't know a lot about Ableton, although i'm sure it is a fine remix and polished production DJ mix tool are you just sitting in front of a laptop looking at the screen? Do you incorporate it with other kit? Another thing is that i feel if mixing becomes very easy because there are beat matching aids with digital etc then i don't think it would be as enjoyable for me - i like to feel that sense of achievement when you've pulled off a cracking mix that required some skill.
Find the British Murder Boys set from last months Dogma that Geoff posted a few weeks back and have a listen to that, three hours all done on Ableton between Surgeon and Regis then judge for yourself how you really feel about it.

I can remember when people really didn't like the idea of Final Scratch either and just thought it would somehow take something away from a performance, all it took was for a few people to get behind it and show them that it doesn't before it started to become more acceptable and less people thought badly of it.