sound card confusion/mixing full length tracks

j4nyc · Post by **j4nyc** » Fri May 28, 2004 12:24 am

using live with a quattro usb.

i have the master routed to 1/2 and prelisten to 3/4. 1/2 is cabled to line 1 on my mixer and 3/4 to line 2.

can anyone suggest a better set up for mixing full length tracks since this set up is a liittle cumbersome.

i am thinking it would be good to have track 1 in live routing to line 1 on the mixer and track 2 rounting to line 2 then i can just use the mixer fader to transition. if i do this i will have to lose stereo and do with mono?!?!

am i missing something? is there an easier way to mix two tracks?

thanks as always.

Porpy · Post by **Porpy** » Fri May 28, 2004 12:47 am

hi j4nyc

is there any reason why you wouldn't mix them internally in Live?

that is have both tracks going out of the one master output, and then assigning each track a crossfader channel (the A B buttons at the underneath the session view track mixer) and moving the crossfader from side to side to mix the new tracks in?

regards

porpy

j4nyc · Post by **j4nyc** » Fri May 28, 2004 1:30 am

can't adjust eq's simultaneously - bit too finninky without a midicontroller

robbmasters · Post by **robbmasters** » Fri May 28, 2004 8:50 am

In that case, why not treat Live almost as if it's two conventional decks?

Forget about setting up pre-listening in Live and just send some tracks to outputs 1/2 and others to outputs 3/4. While tracks that go to 1/2 are playing you can use the DJ mixer to prelisten to anything on 3/4, you can then use the DJ mixer cross fader to bring them in and prelisten to anything on 1/2. Obviously you can dynamically assign anything to 1/2 or 3/4 in Live, so you needn't have tracks permamently assigned to either output.

Hope that makes sense. Though it's probably not that dissimilar to what you're doing already...

j4nyc · Post by **j4nyc** » Fri May 28, 2004 11:10 pm

"send some tracks to outputs 1/2 and others to outputs 3/4."

that's exactly what i want to do except that in live's preferences it will only let me assign 1/2 or 3/4 to the master out.

"Obviously you can dynamically assign anything to 1/2 or 3/4 in Live, so you needn't have tracks permamently assigned to either output."

i don't quite understand this. how do i dynamically assign anything i want to 1/2 or 3/4?

thanks again...

robbmasters · Post by **robbmasters** » Sat May 29, 2004 10:54 am

j4nyc wrote:"send some tracks to outputs 1/2 and others to outputs 3/4."

that's exactly what i want to do except that in live's preferences it will only let me assign 1/2 or 3/4 to the master out.

True - but you're not limited to only sending things to the master out! Make sure you have "In / Out" ticked on the view menu, then at the bottom of each track (session view) you'll see the word "Master". Click on this and you can change it to "Output 3/4" (the exact wording will depend on your soundcard).

When I say you can do it dynamically, I mean you can change this setting whenever you like during a performance.

Hope that helps.

j4nyc · Post by **j4nyc** » Sun May 30, 2004 2:29 pm

i am going to report as quattro usb set up since i think that is what i need help for. thanks for your help.