Remix Live from Mixvibes Video 1 Become a Producer DJ in Less than an Hour

0:00 App, I'd like you to imagine

Alright guys, this is video number one on an app from Mix Vibes. It's called Remix Live. Now, first of all, before we actually have a look at the app, I'd like you to imagine that we have three different styles or three different levels of being a DJ. The first level is the DJ, male or female, who will mix other people's music. They'll mix a track from producer number one here. They'll go to another track here that happens to be from producer number seven, they'll go back to the first deck and mix in a track from seven into say producer number two. And then back to the second deck and they'll go back to producer number one and so on. So what they're doing is they're mixing other people's music. The third level is the DJ stroke producer who has got many options.

The DJ Tutor can just mix their own music and own music only. Alternatively, they can mix other people's music with their tracks that they have produced using say the likes of Ableton for example. But the trouble is with being a producer you've got to do three things. One is you've got to spend the next 10 years in your bedroom learning how to produce. The second one is of course you've got to go to the toilet. The third one is you're allowed to eat lightly buttered pieces of toast because you're going to have no other time to do anything else or go out or meet friends or do absolutely anything. In fact, you're going to have to have a bucket in your room to use as the toilet and a small hole underneath the door where mum, dad, auntie, uncle, nephew, niece or cousin or your partner, if you've still got them after 10 years, will pass the toast to you.

2:48 I have got a very basic cable which is a mini jack to RCA

The second level is, and this is more prevalent now over the years, is where you can become a DJ and a producer by using an app like this. So I'm going to point the camera there and let's have a look at Remix Live. Now this is video number one, this is a very basic overlook at some of the features. is great and it is suitable for Windows, Mac, your iPhone. I have it on my iPad. We have different sample packs. You've got the likes of Deep House, you've got Techno, you've also got some Drum & Bass and there's others but I don't really want to go too much into it at the moment. Let's just concentrate on the look of a couple of the pages here. Also, just to let you know as well, how have I got this plugged into my mixer? I have got a very basic cable which is a mini jack to RCA. The mini jack is plugged into the headphone in on my iPad and then the RCA is plugged into the back of my mixer to my line-in. If you don't have a line-in and you're thinking all I've got is phono or aux...

AUX is short for auxiliary. You can plug into your auxiliary. Do not plug in to phono. Auxiliary or line-in. Okay, so deep house pack. Let's press kick there and let's see what we come up with. Okay, so we've got a basic kick. Let's add something else to that. Now you may find that the kick... is overpowering and you need to reduce that slightly well if we go to the next page what we can do we can also filter also we can increase or decrease low mid and high on any of those sounds now let's just get that kick back in go to effects how about beat repeat with an effect we've got I went to this page, I enabled the microphone on my iPad and I put a small sample of me saying 1, 2, 3, 4 and I can add that now here. I sound very, very dodgy, do apologise, but it gives you an idea. OK, so, alright, let's just stop that now. I've had Remix Live for, I don't know, about half an hour.

5:29 Maybe you've got a techno track

And it's simple. It is really, really simple to use. But imagine this. You're at a club, you're at your friend's house, you're playing a few tunes and you want to add something. You want to add another layer to it. Maybe you've got a techno track. Techno, very minimal kind of tune or very minimal kind of genre, sorry. And you feel as though it needs something else. Well, using this you can add other layers to it. Now, don't worry about it because you can change the BPM as well. Very simple at the top, that's at 122. I can change it if I want to. We can also record what we're playing as well. So now, I've had this for half an hour. And don't worry about it. You don't sort of download it and think, right, you mentioned earlier on about 10 years learning to be a producer, maybe six months with this. No, I've had that for about half an hour. You can pretty much get away with plugging it in and having a mess around and starting to layer samples and sounds.

Over the tracks that you're playing, alright? Now there will be a link in the description to the website where you can get more information on this. So let me just put that down there again and hold on. There we go. Three, four, one, four. Two, three, four. Wow, that is fun. Thank you very much. Vibes Remix Live and let's see you guys. Getting to that next level of becoming a producer DJ. Practice and enjoy. Thank you very much.

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