I also use the 001 to record my mixes, but I just run my decks into a mixer, then run the mixer into the 001. As far as cd's, you can import the audio tracks directly through the import movie function. If you have any kind of tempo/pitch correciton plugin, you can use that to find and change the bpm (Serrato Pitch 'n' Time works well). Have you heard the new Richie Hawtin cd? It's composed entirely of loops he's pulled from over 70 different tracks and recompiled into an hour long mix. Works well, and I'd imagine the whole mix was done on a computer with little or no live mixing at all.

doing dj mixes on a mac with pro tools 

I am a DJ looking to find the best way to do my mixes with pro tools. i would like to know what other dj's are using to do edit their mixes. currently I am playing a song from my Pioneer CDJ-1000 cd players and Pioneer DJM-600 mixer into the 001 I/O box...recording it to a track, then playing that track back and recording a new track while I mix the next song in, and keep adding tracks and songs til I get usually an hour or so mix of music. I would like to figure out an easier way of getting my music into pro tools other than physically mixing it myself. I would like to take songs from CD's and somehow get them all the same bpm's so its just a matter of drag and drop to put a mix of music together. is there anyone out there doing this with 001 and any other software or plug in? maybe even Phrazer...I have heard it is total crap, but it might be worth considering if it could at the very least adjust songs from a cd to be the same BPM. then sending them to pro tools for editing. is this a possibility? thanks, DJ-SPIN

Well you could use the standard digi time expansion/compression plug-in, but you would need to know the original tempo of the song being processed. It's not hard to work out the tempo, just cut a two or four bar loop out of the song and keep changing the tempo of the session till you get it loop in time (in loop playback mode) .. once you get the hang of it it goes quite quickly... I find the quickest way of actually getting a mix done in PTLE is to actually mix it myself and just chop the tracks up and dump them into toast. oh well hope it helps. //NW

A quick (cheap) tip to line up two different sources. Let's say you have imported two CD tracks and you want to use part of them along with eachother. Take one (the one you want to stay "intact"=no pitch, no stretch), trim it in order to have a good loop (highlight it and play in loop mode, hear if it plays in rythm, if not trim again...). Once you have this reference set up, highlight it, open Time Compression/Expansion, note the length given by the plug in, then highlight the second region (that you have also previously trim correctly), enter the length previously noted, apply. Here you go. If your two tracks were correctly trimmed (no useless"space" before, no useless"space" after), the two sources should now be almost perfectly lined up (adjust a little if not). Meanwhile, for further purposes you could consider getting a sampler (if you don't already own one). Hope that help (a little).

get turntables. over 90% of superclubs still don't have cd mixers. you're wasting your time.

Try Mixing dont miss out on being a musicain of some sort, you should try actually doing something. but seriously... I was watching this one cat at this battle he dragged this one track for his main hard drive and then he took a different track from an orb drive, and then one from a zip disk, then in the end he actually mixed something with his 600 dollar mixer, awwww it was some bad ish, not bad meaning bad, but bad meaning good.