newbie: performing a live at a venue question

[msconduto]

Hi community;

I've been learning the basics of Ableton Live, and have become somewhat comfortable using it along with a midi controller. However, one question still stumps me:

If I were to perform a 'song' using Ableton (in this case, session view) and it ends, it seems to me that the only way to begin to perform the next song is to manually launch another separate Ableton live set. Is this really the case?

Imagine: I'm performing in a venue and then I have to stop to launch another set on my laptop. It seems that there must be a more fluid, intuitive way to get your current song running than doing this.

Thanks in advance and please excuse the question if there is a simple answer that I'm not seeing.

[DunedinDragon]

There's a couple of tricks I employ to do this in Session View.

First I have a MIDI End track MIDI note in each session track that outputs a specific MIDI note that gets echoed back to Ableton at the end of the track via a free LoopMIDI application that triggers a Stop command in Ableton.

I then select the next "song" I want to play using a MIDI foot controller (which selects the correct row in the Session), and when I'm ready press a "Start" command on my foot controller to start playing that track. All of these are done with standard Ableton MIDI commands. Each row in my session is assigned a single alphanumeric number which will be sent to start the track based on the track I selected.

[johnsimmons]

Yeah, theres not a way to load multiple sessions at once so it's either load each song before you play or (probably more likely) make a large session with all your tracks. That way of doing things is kind of its own world unto itself and may or may not make you pull your hair out . Or you could bring 2 computers and have someone load the other one as you play haha. Of course with one track at a time theres any number of things you could do while everyone waits (forever) for the next session to load.