hi i was wondering how people generally tend to use ableton or traktor possibly along with other things when doing a live set type thing.

i have just got into abelton and find it great for putting in loops of my reason tunes and stuff about 4 beats to 4 bars or so long to mess around with. which is great .

i have tried loading a few whole tunes into ableton and it doesnt always work to well, to u need to cut any mp3's etc u want to use to exact bar lengths ?

is using ableton to play full length mp3's while in the mix on there the best way to do it?

and if u want to play tunes u have on record , would it be easier to just copy them to mp3's and load them inito abelton instead?

if i want to just play a mix of my own tunes and records i have would traktor be better to use?