CD burning effects with ableton?

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Ok, 2 questions simple one first


  1. How do I make my track have a “slow to a stop” effect like on vinyl?



    2)Ok, I’ve made an hour long DJ set, it blends well, and I want to burn it on to a CD. However, I want to be able to divide the CD into the different tracks, and if I skip to track five, I don’t want to hear the end of track 4 mixed in with it. They do this on alot of big releases. any advice? thanks!
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you would use adobe audition to master a DJ mix and create markers for the individual tracks.



not having the end of the previous track is reallly just about mix well… not having long drawnout over lapping mixes and cutting in at “events” in the track.



do people still use cds?



If you are wanting to send mixes out would the internet mot be better?

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Ok thank you phil, very helpful!



2 things:


  1. Any idea about a “slow to a stop” (like on old records) effect for a track?


  2. I’ve had cd’s in the past that the whole album is mixed seamlessly together; if you start playing the cd at track 5, it sounds different than if you let track 4 play into track 5, also I imported the cd and played track 4 by it self, you don’t hear track 5 fading in towards the end of it, it’s only when you play it from the CD. any ideas?
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This plugin does the tape stop effect you’re after:

http://www.kvraudio.com/product/tapestop_by_tbt

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[quote]Tisdale (15/12/2011)[hr]I’ve had cd’s in the past that the whole album is mixed seamlessly together; if you start playing the cd at track 5, it sounds different than if you let track 4 play into track 5, also I imported the cd and played track 4 by it self, you don’t hear track 5 fading in towards the end of it, it’s only when you play it from the CD. any ideas?[/quote]

A CD that plays a different track if you play it though or select the track number = impossible.

You have just misunderstood what you can hear. They have put the track mark on the first beat of a new bar after the last track has been taken out of the mix.

You can use Soundforge to track mark as well. Set markers on each track mark point, convert markers to regions then export regions.

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[quote]2) I’ve had cd’s in the past that the whole album is mixed seamlessly together; if you start playing the cd at track 5, it sounds different than if you let track 4 play into track 5, also I imported the cd and played track 4 by it self, you don’t hear track 5 fading in towards the end of it, it’s only when you play it from the CD. any ideas?[/quote]



Ive put together DJ mixes for commercial comps several times and this is how we did it.



to get this to work 2 things need to happen…



You need to pick a point in your track that has an event like a build up to the bass kicking in or the first breakdown. You then need to make sure you have your previous mix totally out just at this point. you use the build up to mask your x fading so by the time the bass or break kick in you have mixed out.



then you need to set your track markers to that point.



so if you skip to the track on the CD it just sounds like it crashes in or starts from a clean point which sounds like the start but actually isnt its the break or the bass kicking in or whatever bit you chose.



We sometimes looped drums up at the start of tracks to give more blending time if we found a nice mix point early in the track.

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AWESOME!!! Thanks so much for all the help guys!!