Beatbox: Ableton DJ set template courtesy of Tom Cosm

I caught this post up on Ableton's message board the other day by one of it's well established members Tom Cosm. He posted an awesome 1-hour tutorial video (in full HD!) showing how he constructed the setup he uses in Ableton to build DJ sets with, as well as how he chops and re-edits the songs he plays while in the mix. Not only does he post a video but he also saved the set with all of the songs self-contained and posted a link to the .zip file on his post! The tracks are by unsigned producers who also participate on their message board but are very talented. Here are the links:

http://cosm.co.nz/ableton/djmegaset/Tom ... %201.0.zip

In the tutorial video Tom works entirely in session mode and uses the first 3 channels as his "mixer" channels, then uses two additional groups consisting of 3-4 channels each as effects chains. Each of these channels has a single effect per channel that you can easily send the audio from any of the first three channels to. The effects channels use dummy clips, which are clips with no audio but envelopes set up to alter paramaters such as the volume, pitch, etc. of the sound that is fed from channels 1-3. It's a pretty efficient way to control each effect independently. It's a pretty no-frill setup and even a beginner should be able to follow the video pretty well. Have to send a definite thanks to Tom for setting this up and sharing!