Who uses Live with a live band? What tips can you give me?

[mikemc]

Seems like threads here are more for knowledge accumulation than dialogue, oh you kids these days.

I have used Live along with live performance but I play solo. Guitar and vocals with live launched clips and I use a G2M audio-to-midi device by Sonuus and also have a Fishman TriplePlay wireless midi device for guitar as well as a few foot button controllers as well as a monstrous double necked midi pseudostringed guitar-like instrument. Of course you can use midi notes and cc's to trigger scenes and you can use plug-ins to translate notes to cc's and route them back into live using a midi yoke I use LoopBe1. You can also use. If you want to control the tempo with a tap button via laptop there are some really compact bluetooth midi foot controllers that are very inexpensive. I have one called "Chocolate" but have not incoporated it into a live setup.

I am not sure if you are aware of the method of naming scenes in a way that contains the bpm. Consult your Live manual. This will set the tempo per scene.

The fellow who is the drummer and uses the tap button method where it is used by the drummer as described above would be the way I'd do it if I had a band-- I believe in separation of functions and the drummer should control the tempo.

A brief disclaimer: I am old and therefore stupid, the inventor and sole performer of formed stochastic music (which is bullshit for I have some self-composed clips and I have some of them in scenes and I make stuff up as I go along) pushing whatever button serves my fancy and singing and playing over it. Each performance is unique and what is played will never be heard again-- perhaps to the relief of many. Some things I have made up as I go along have been captured, some things that I have carefully assembled have been captured, most of them years ago. But I still make music, just kind of disillusioned with how the whole self-distributed digital artifacts thing has played out.

If you search for "Utenzil" on places like soundcloud, youtube, cdbaby.com, spotify you may well have the opportunity to subject yourself to said artifacts.