Since I started using Live, I recorded everything I thought I needed in a track in the session, then once I thought it was ready for arrangement, I brought it over.
I just recently started a track from scratch, using only 7-8 tracks, then brought it over to arrangement, then deciding what else is needed to finish/build the track. Felt pretty good doing so..
Wondering how everybody goes about this...
**Only thing bothered about doing so, is when I want to add stuff, I have to go back to session then bring back to arrangement...I must be doing something wrong..
Session vs. Arrangement
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Re: Session vs. Arrangement
i whip up a track in the session and once i have what sounds like all the bits I will record it live to the arrangement. then i will work on the track in the arrangement. add on the ear candy n stuff. work on the texture a bit more. I will not return to the seesion.
Re: Session vs. Arrangement
i try to change my work flow slightly on tracks so that i dont feel like im going through a mechanical routine
sometimes i lay out everything in the session, scene by scene, dummy clips, automation envelopes in the clips and record into the arrangement
sometimes i ll have 20 tracks in the session with only one different clip in each stretching in one scene - im not playing all 20 tracks at once but messing around triggering various combinations so make sure that something will fit together. In this method i will find which combination will be the peak of the track .. drag it into a middle area of the arrangement and work outwards to the beginning and end, chopping & changing variations of the clips and adding the other unused clips in different parts of the song
also what i ve been doing, is when i ve got a basic structure of a tracks - i ll isolated maybe one track at a time, delete the others, save it as a new set and then use that set for working on variations of the sound and still preserving the original sound i have in the original set containing the full track
often i ll start a track and then if i have nt got a feeling for it, drop it .... quite a few tracks end up like this and then at a later stage you can make a frankenstein track of patched up bits of various old sets
etc etc - anyways, my point is i always try to look at ways of changing the work flow after every few tracks
sometimes i lay out everything in the session, scene by scene, dummy clips, automation envelopes in the clips and record into the arrangement
sometimes i ll have 20 tracks in the session with only one different clip in each stretching in one scene - im not playing all 20 tracks at once but messing around triggering various combinations so make sure that something will fit together. In this method i will find which combination will be the peak of the track .. drag it into a middle area of the arrangement and work outwards to the beginning and end, chopping & changing variations of the clips and adding the other unused clips in different parts of the song
also what i ve been doing, is when i ve got a basic structure of a tracks - i ll isolated maybe one track at a time, delete the others, save it as a new set and then use that set for working on variations of the sound and still preserving the original sound i have in the original set containing the full track
often i ll start a track and then if i have nt got a feeling for it, drop it .... quite a few tracks end up like this and then at a later stage you can make a frankenstein track of patched up bits of various old sets
etc etc - anyways, my point is i always try to look at ways of changing the work flow after every few tracks
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