How to not use your hands when playing live

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edh
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How to not use your hands when playing live

Post by edh » Mon Mar 02, 2009 12:05 am

I'm really interested in just using a midi floorboard to control live, but it imposes some problems.

I play together with a band, and for a night we might play about 10 different songs, which would be arranged into 10 different live sets. Mostly, the set-list will be ironed out in advance, so I guess the easy way to just use a floorboard would be to make a mega-set with all the songs on the set list. But for the few times we choose not to follow our list, I would have to run to the computer and drag other sets into the session window, and that wouldn't work.

Soo.. is there any way to use a midi floorboard to choose between sets, and then start them without any silence? I guess that both being a dragger or being a set-freak is ruled out the way I need things to work..

suggestions?
magnificent

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