
Richie explains to Beatportal exactly what the hell he’s doing behind the laptops.
“One laptop is running Traktor DJ Studio 3 and the other is running Ableton Live,” he says.
“There’s so much new music to play with these days and my new set up allows me to take control of the music much more than, say, the typical DJ setup of 2 turntables and a sampler.
“With my current setup I can search inside of a track, find the parts I want to use and mix them.
“Now I don’t need to worry about outdated skills such as beat matching and I can fully focus and concentrate my attention on more creative details of the mix.”
Unlike many Traktor-based DJs, Richie Hawtin doesn’t bother with timecoded CDs or vinyl and instead just uses the software’s sync function.
He also midi clocks Traktor and Ableton by having Traktor as the master.
“People say that beatmatching is the art of DJing, but I’m sorry, beat matching isn’t really creative, it’s just a skill,” says Richie.
“Sure, you can be pretty creative just by beat matching and cutting up records, but I prefer to spend my time in the DJ booth thinking about the construction of an interesting musical journey and less about timing two records together.”
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