disable your damn spacebar

Cache · Post by **Cache** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 5:12 pm

did the unthinkable last night during a banging set - hit the f8kin space bar. well the music stopped briefly and i was so rattled that hitting shift-space bar didn't do anything or i didn't do it...

either way, i blame me for hitting the space bar. don't think it was Live 5.01

so Monday Moral of the Day - use that little proggie that disables your space bar.

onwards and upwards...

sqook · Post by **sqook** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 6:45 pm

Why didn't you just wait 4 beats and hit space again dramatically?

Gotta improvise, man

LOFA · Post by **LOFA** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 6:58 pm

just make sure you are always running at least one delay or reverb

john gordon · Post by **john gordon** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 8:32 pm

Cache wrote:did the unthinkable last night during a banging set - hit the f8kin space bar. well the music stopped briefly and i was so rattled that hitting shift-space bar didn't do anything or i didn't do it...

either way, i blame me for hitting the space bar. don't think it was Live 5.01

so Monday Moral of the Day - use that little proggie that disables your space bar.

onwards and upwards...

what program that happened to me as well

hambone1 · Post by **hambone1** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 8:39 pm

If you're giving the crowd a wireless keyboard to play with, disable the space bar or remove it!

And obviously don't give them access to any important functions. You can use the alt- or alt-shift combinations that don't get used much, and let them play with beat-repeat, delays, EQ kills, etc with those keys.

Be careful not to let them know just how easy it is...

tomperson · Post by **tomperson** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 8:43 pm

What program? I'm interested too.

Clearscreen · Post by **Clearscreen** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 11:40 pm

it's a little program called blockspace that mr yellow wrote. if you ask nicely he might post it up somewhere again or email it to you. it's pretty freakin handy.

you can read about it here:
http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic. ... blockspace

and here:
http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic. ... blockspace

robin · Post by **robin** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 12:06 am

or remember to put a rolled up piece of card under it (a small bit of rizla packet does the job

).

i don't manage to do this live anymore so it's something you can get used to. it would be nice to have a simple option that is part of Live though really.

husker · Post by **husker** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 12:26 am

just enable EXT sync...space bar no more

Cache · Post by **Cache** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 4:43 am

i found the blockspace program and have put it on my website for your download.

http://www.cachemusic.com/files/blockspace.zip

stick in browser and save as...

MrYellow · Post by **MrYellow** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 8:00 am

Thanx man, I turned my servers off last year sometime and have nowhere to host it.

-Ben

hacktheplanet · Post by **hacktheplanet** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 8:10 am

I did that when I was djing at a party once. The music stopped for 4 beats in front of 400 people.

Luckily, it was only 4 beats, and I managed to hit the spacebar again right in time.

peeddrroo · Post by **peeddrroo** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 8:11 am

another one that scares me is the F10 ("back to arrangement") button. if you press it while you're playing clips in session view and your arrangement is empty, you'll get... silence, and, even worse, all your clips will stop, so it will be difficult to build up something again.

so i'm thinking of filling the arrangement view with a couple of clips (have to be the length of a gig though).

MrYellow · Post by **MrYellow** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 8:57 am

btw Shift + Space resumes rather than restarts.

-Ben

forge · Post by **forge** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 8:59 am

peeddrroo wrote:another one that scares me is the F10 ("back to arrangement") button. if you press it while you're playing clips in session view and your arrangement is empty, you'll get... silence, and, even worse, all your clips will stop, so it will be difficult to build up something again.

so i'm thinking of filling the arrangement view with a couple of clips (have to be the length of a gig though).

ctrl-shift-i is a good habit to get into for that - takes snapshots of all the clips you have playing and puts them in a new scene...

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