How do you mix in Live?

[Daduk]

Do you create subgroups, sends and in what order?

What I want is to combine the drum elements in one group and in the same time ad some send glue on the specific elements withing the drums bus.
What path would be smartest to do this?

Cheers,
Daduk

[dysanfel]

What I want is to combine the drum elements in one group and in the same time ad some send glue on the specific elements withing the drums bus.

Group your drum tracks and add a compressor to the group track. Wasn't that easy?

[Daduk]

How do you create a group? Or is it just a matter of routing the outputs of the drum tracks to one specific track?

Cheers,

Daduk

[Angstrom]

Select the tracks, press ctrl & g
grouped

[Daduk]

THANK YOU ANGSTROM!!

[3dot...]

submix to parts(rhythm/pads/melody/etc..).. and then to frequencies..

[leedsquietman]

If you have Live 7 or before which doesn't have group tracks, you set up an audio track as a buss and then route your tracks through it (making sure to arm the recording on the group track). Then do the same thing as described above.

in terms of using a buss compressor to add 'glue', consider using a compressor which has a wet/dry section as an insert, i.e. Cytomic 'The glue', DDMF 'NY Compressor' etc. You can then hit the compressor hard but use the wet/dry control to blend it in to the right amount to get the punch without killing the drum sound.

Track grouping, such a small thing, is a really great workflow improvement in Live 8.