performing live - are you working just in session view?
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performing live - are you working just in session view?
i'm sure this has already been asked at some point, but i've been searching the forum for ages and haven't found anything!
so i want to know; when you use live to perform live, are you just using the session view? or do you also incorporate the arrangement view aswell?
i'm thinking of maybe organizing a basic skeleton of a song in the arrangement view, and then using the session view also to do stuff "over the top" of it; but then it doesnt seem very versatile - what if i want to extend part of the song or mix it up a bit?
hrmmm
any pointers??
edit -if it helps i'm using this for a techno liveset
thanks heaps
so i want to know; when you use live to perform live, are you just using the session view? or do you also incorporate the arrangement view aswell?
i'm thinking of maybe organizing a basic skeleton of a song in the arrangement view, and then using the session view also to do stuff "over the top" of it; but then it doesnt seem very versatile - what if i want to extend part of the song or mix it up a bit?
hrmmm
any pointers??
edit -if it helps i'm using this for a techno liveset
thanks heaps
I'm using Live with a live rhythm section and a vocalist. What I do is create the basic arrangement in Session view using follow actions, and label the scenes according to the song's timeline (the first scene is named with the track's bpm count), then add my other clips, assigned to keys on the keyboard. While the arrangements are set to a certain degee, I can jump to set points in the arrangement, like repeat the chorus and simultaneously drop out some parts, apply effects and the like, and the band can react to the crowd if a tack is going down really well. We can jam.
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I've only gigged in Session view, but I've sometimes thought about gigging in Arrangement view - starting with a blank Arrangement and bringing things in from the Browser on the fly, as I do in Session view. Particularly when doing something approaching a DJ set, I've felt that this might be an easier way to trim intros, see when (multiple) tracks are going to end (or get quiet), etc.
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Arrange works fine on pieces with longer builds or changes in automatization on clips. You still can jump around in the timeline or loop parts of it on the fly without having to care about individual clips (of different loop lengths) going out of sync to each other. I just used it twice live, with arranged pieces that would have been a pain to rearrange as a bunch of scenes in session view.