Good resources for, er, live Live performance?

[Bodega.]

Hi all,

There are a ton of resources for people looking to produce using Ableton but I find there are significantly fewer that deal specifically with how to use it as a live performance instrument.

Does anybody have any recommendations of especially good sources of tips/tricks/etc.? It could be threads on here, YouTube videos.... anything, really.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated!
Matthew

[Tarekith]

This is how create and perform my live sets with Ableton:

http://tarekith.com/ableton-live-apc40-live-pa-set-up/

[Sage]

Using Live for live performance is a more personal thing than production. Tarekith's blog is totally different to how I use Live for gigs and even then, how I use Live changes depending on the project.

[Eventful]

The cool thing about Live is that there is no right way to do something. It'll do whatever you want. For instance, I load my Launchpad [User 1] with samples, like an MPC or a Maschine. Only I get 8 pages of 64 samples each. I play alongside a bassist and a guitarist. Who also, by the way, route their signals into Live, where they can be glossed or destroyed, depending on the mood of the venue. And of course this is all in one instance of Live.

[Bodega.]

So interesting stuff so far, though I suppose I should have been more clear: I'm most interested in learning features that are the most applicable to playing live but which you wouldn't generally use in production.

An example would be tricks using Follow Actions. You can use them in production, of course, but they're mainly a real-time tool.

[synnack]

This Tom Cosm video may help you: http://vimeo.com/1701545


and not about Ableton Live specifically but you may enjoy this:

http://www.synnack.com/blog/post/13/lap ... ips-part-1
http://www.synnack.com/blog/post/14/lap ... ips-part-2
http://www.synnack.com/blog/post/15/lap ... ips-part-3
http://www.synnack.com/blog/post/21/lap ... ips-part-4
http://www.synnack.com/blog/post/23/lap ... ips-part-5
http://www.synnack.com/blog/post/26/lap ... ips-part-6
http://www.synnack.com/blog/post/28/lap ... ips-part-7
http://www.synnack.com/blog/post/51/lap ... ips-part-8