beginner...help with Live use on stage at shows

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anackman
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beginner...help with Live use on stage at shows

Post by anackman » Sat Jan 12, 2008 8:56 pm

i've been using pro tools and other such programs forever. i'm still getting into Live.

What is the best way to take pre-recorded midi tracks from Pro Tools sessions and get them organized into Live for use at shows, including the click track for the drummer?

Basically, do i export my midi tracks as .Wav files and upload them into Live? Then do I pan the midi parts to one side and the click track to another? Is an Mbox then used to get the sound to the board?

Basic question: how do I take tracks from my album that are synths, pads, and other electronic parts and set them up for use on stage?

excuse my ignorance.

was
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Post by was » Mon Jan 14, 2008 9:39 pm

If your tracks are on CD ... you can rip them directly to .WAV with Windows Media Player (or any one of several other things) and then just drag-n-drop into Live clips.

If your tracks are on tape, vinyl or some other non-digital form, you'll need an audio interface of some sort to record them directly into live.

You might want to chop up your tracks into Intro | Verse | Chorus | Bridge | Ending sections. That gives you a lot of flexibility for prepping sets with "just one more chorus" or whatever. This is childsplay with Live.

If you get an audio interface with 4 or more outputs, it's pretty easy to create a click track and assign that to an output which will be fed to the drummer.

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Re: beginner...help with Live use on stage at shows

Post by laird » Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:15 pm

anackman wrote: Basically, do i export my midi tracks as .Wav files and upload them into Live? Then do I pan the midi parts to one side and the click track to another?
well, then perhaps you know that once you convert a MIDI file to .wav, its no longer MIDI... but an audio file.

So do you want to use MIDI in Live, or not?
Basic question: how do I take tracks from my album that are synths, pads, and other electronic parts and set them up for use on stage?
Like was suggests, I'd do it in loops. Export 4 or 8 bar loops from Pro Tools, open them up in Live, and arrange them.

Export Audio loops if you are using audio or RTAS-plugins from Pro Tools.
Export MIDI if you have an equivalent instrument plugin in Live you want to use.

You could export whole tracks, that'd be fastest... but then you'd be using Live as one big lame version of Pro Tools, and not using any of Live's strengths.

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