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Just go 'Shit!' and tell the crowd to all put their phones on speaker, and play some tunes while you fix it! Or, get their headphones out and have a silent disco!

We run Live on 2 computers, each doing half the tracks. Each computer has a stereo ruffmix backup of what the other is doing for every scene - this track always plays, but is usually muted. If one computer should freeze or crash, we can un-mute this track and fly on one engine while re-booting the other. The crowd never knows a thing. We've had to use this only 3 times in the last 4 years. In the event of a catastrophic hull-loss failure we also have an iPod.

incorporating a live drummer, singer, and using a Wretch machine for live improvisation. The laptop crashes, it's all live improv.

I know that doesn't help you guys who DJ, or who use a laptop as your only instrument, but my question to that is what are we doing to the performance aspect of music? Why not just hand a mix tape over of your best mix? No one in the audience is going to be able to tell that you're not just checking email and playing iTunes.

Say "Talk amongst yourselves" while I get the thing up and running again.

sparklepuff wrote:you hit "Play" on your iPod.

+1

I allways have an ipod with a pre-mixed set on it in case.

rikhyray wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTxdKi77 ... p?p=203152

^^^^^Fuck me sideways!!!!!

I've had live crash on me during a set, but my sets are really low key and I just said "hang on a minute while I reboot" and then I drank some beer while I waited.

rbmonosylabik wrote:Say "Talk amongst yourselves" while I get the thing up and running again.

haha they are gonna be pissed or some shit

Pitch Black wrote:We run Live on 2 computers, each doing half the tracks. Each computer has a stereo ruffmix backup of what the other is doing for every scene - this track always plays, but is usually muted. If one computer should freeze or crash, we can un-mute this track and fly on one engine while re-booting the other. The crowd never knows a thing. We've had to use this only 3 times in the last 4 years. In the event of a catastrophic hull-loss failure we also have an iPod.

great idea.

Pitch Black wrote:

rikhyray wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTxdKi77 ... p?p=203152

^^^^^Fuck me sideways!!!!!

and upside down too!!!

sparklepuff wrote:you hit "Play" on your iPod.

+1 on the failsafe.

I just saw a friend's gig where the bulk of the entire set was played off an ipod and they just played some instruments and sung over that. Although I found it kind of funny that their sound guy by the mixer was in charge of cuing the songs on the ipod, the human untitled playlist.

But I will admit the banjo thing sounds good and I would go to that gig hoping Live crashes.

it happened to me earlier this year in Tokyo , at a Techno gig in Shibuya !

i said - "minna san , gomenasai !!" (bowed deeply) and rebooted.

i got off pretty lightly...

PS

awesome backup set-up Pitch Black !!

nimbledoe wrote:minna san , gomenasai !! (bowed) and rebooted.

i got off pretty lightly...

Translation, please! You never know who may need this handy phrase!! Arigato!

Hi Pitch

minna san = everyone in your immediate presence.

gomenasai = im very sorry.

also if anyone asks is everything OK , you can say - daijoubu

if you are heading there PM me.

i have a few friends in Tokyo , Osaka , Fukuoka and Okinawa.

n -doe

we had a black out at a gig once, light show, computer, guitar amps everything went. Got the crowd singing "cant take my eyes of you" and some other football type songs. It was hilarious, took about 3 songs before the power was back. Dont think too many people left.