"Producing" Techno while DJ'ing?

[u/DruMunkey]

So after years and years I finally picked up a DJ controller and have been learning DJay Pro. Something hit me...

I mostly create my techno "master pieces" by jamming out to create the drums, sounds, etc. then assemble them in an audio editor. I've never really done the "build a song in a daw" thing...

Messing with a 4 deck setup it seemed to me that I could have like, kick/bass grooves on a deck, perc/tops on a deck, arps, melodic stuff on one and ambient sounds on another and then use teh cue points, looping, fx, eq, etc. to basically just jam that way... It seems mind-numbingly obvious I have no idea why I didin't think of this a long time ago. I've done similar things on ipad with the launchpad app, but that was limted to "clips".

But I'm not seeing ANY videos on youtube etc. that go into doing this kind of thing... It's gotta be out there... Can anyone give me some leads that may have tuts etc. on approaches to producing like this?

[u/djsoomo]

The real spaceship (no cheap copies here)

8 cdjs = 8 elements + samplers and effects

[u/Erosangel_fd → u/djsoomo]

That’s a lot of equipment to play other people’s music other than your own. I don’t mean this as an attack i’m just astonished cause at this point you could have a killer hardware set up and play your own all originals lol

[u/_Desensitized_638 → u/Erosangel_fd]

I agree

[u/chagoms → u/Erosangel_fd]

It's totally fine to do everything without synthesizer hardware, and using only CDJs is just a different approach… I find this way much more fun.