Monitoring more than one channel

[CJ_Hahn]

Is it just me, or would you like to see the ability to monitor more than one channel at once? In using ableton it bugs me that I can only pre-listen to one channel at once. How I que up a track depends on how it sounds with the other parts of a track. Anyone agree?

[gomi]

Is it just me, or would you like to see the ability to monitor more than one channel at once? In using ableton it bugs me that I can only pre-listen to one channel at once. How I que up a track depends on how it sounds with the other parts of a track. Anyone agree?

I do this by setting up a send that outputs to my cue, setting it to pre.
then i can send tracks to it and hear them first, as many as i want
before actually turning them up..

this works, but a button to just cue as many things as you wanted would
be even better.

[CJ_Hahn]

I've done the send thing in the past it just so complicated to do something so simple. It would just be nicer to have the function availible.

I don't understand why you would only want to pre-listen to one track at a time, considering most people are playing songs that have more than one channel contributing to the track. They made the implementation more like a solo button then a monitor button.

[Moog]

I found this post while looking for information on the possibility of PFL/PGM fading or monitoring more than one track.

Have you tried Ctrl+clicking on more than one cue button? You can't fade between PFL/PGM but at least you can monitor several channels at once. [EDIT ...and you can monitor tracks from the browser without cancelling your track monitors either)

Just found this out a few minutes ago whlie experimenting! Started using Live yesterday and am doing my first DJ gig with it tomorrow night. I'll be winging it from the start!

If you have an external mixer you could always output Live's main audio into one channel and the Live Monitor out into another channel. Keep Live Main's volume fader at a consistent level on the mixer and keep the Live Monitor channel at zero (or the crossfader fully Main). That way you could use the mixer's hardware PFL/PGM fader or similar cue fader.

Hope this helps and/or generates some other workarounds.

Moog

EDIT: PS - You don't have to hold down Ctrl to click on more than one monitor button. If you go into Options / Preferences / Misc / Behaviour / Exclusive it will allow you to uncheck 'solo' meaning that you can click on more than one solo/cue button at a time by default.

[CJ_Hahn]

EDIT: PS - You don't have to hold down Ctrl to click on more than one monitor button. If you go into Options / Preferences / Misc / Behaviour / Exclusive it will allow you to uncheck 'solo' meaning that you can click on more than one solo/cue button at a time by default.

Thanks much for this. I inherintly knew that the software should be able to do this, but sometimes finding out how to make it happen isn't the easiest to do.

[Nixon]

Great! I was too stupid to realize this as well! hehehe