Sharing Live Sets?

[jcwillia]

Do you guys ever share your live sets?

Back in the day when I used to use Scream Tracker to write music (fun times, fun times) the only way I ever really learned tips and tricks was to tear apart other people's compositions and see how they ticked.

Some of the tutorials that are floating around are really great but you all know that moment when you hear something and go "THERE! RIGHT THERE! That's what I want!" and then you spend the next siz weeks trying to figure out how to make that sound on yer own.

Do you guys ever post yer live sets or is that a no-no either because of protocol or practicality?

[amigo]

Good question.

There is no protocol to sharing live sets so I guess it's all down to practicality.
I reckon the only way to guarantee a live set will work on every computer is to ensure everybody is using the same plugs. Otherwise you may end up missing something vital to a set.

The only person I know that openly and regularly shares live sets is Tom Cosm.

[jcwillia]

does the collect and save not also bring in VSTs? I suppose it couldn't / shouldn't because if one person is using a paid-for VST then if everyone doesn't have it...you get where I'm going with that.

hmm, I guess there are practical barriers I hadn't considered.

[amigo]

Live 8 should help to remove those barriers with it's new sharing concept.

[rbmonosylabik]

I have a live set up on my site showing how I made one of my tracks:

Brake - Ableton Live Project for Download

I had to do a bunch of tweaks to the session, getting rid of 3rd party plug-ins and in some cases, replacing FX for Live's built-in versions, but most were done to help make the session helpful. In its original state it would have been too messy to share as a tutorial.

For simply sharing a session with someone else, freezing tracks with 3rd party plugs and doing Collect All & Save should be enough. Hopefully Share will take care of the hardships of trading sets.

[jcwillia]

thanks for making the effort!

[Alejandro]

Hey amigo:

Help please with Tom's live set, do you know if there is a reason why there are some awfull piano sounds
whenever a switch of track occurs, is this a missing plug-in I don't have?, .

I enjoyed his set and the music, I may use it in live presentations, I am hoping this is ethical though ?????

Honestly speaking I agree with Tom and disagree with him, becuase he mentioned that is OK to use the automized
power of live to avoid beat matching between song and song, I know it is OK to use every aspect of Live, but we are
still humans, and the crowd enjoys watching and hearing a human making music. I don;t think is a matter weather we are DJ or not, since I am orginally a bass player, I consider every thing that makes music through the power of our physhical abilities making music. Isn't it??

alejandro

[sunaivod]

Well if you have your own music and prepare it good in session view and make good loops of it,
have good effects automated on a midi controller, I think it's more interesting then a dj with vinyl
and constantly trying to match the bpm. With Ableton you can make the music live with little snippits,
so I think it's more creative. I think you can be more physic. Look for Aaron Spectre on youtube. It's crazy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hewFhssV ... re=related

[jcwillia]

Well if you have your own music and prepare it good in session view and make good loops of it,
have good effects automated on a midi controller, I think it's more interesting then a dj with vinyl
and constantly trying to match the bpm. With Ableton you can make the music live with little snippits,
so I think it's more creative. I think you can be more physic. Look for Aaron Spectre on youtube. It's crazy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hewFhssV ... re=related

I just want to confess one thing - I am not the biggest fan of Ableton's "Session" view.

I get it - I totally understand the appeal of it and it makes sense.

For me, I tend to write music like authors write books and I don't necessarily like it when you put my end at the beginning or vice versa. Still, it is fun to re-arrange the middle parts at times.