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A few performance questions
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 3:08 am
by slapmybass44
I have a macbook pro, live 7, reason 4, korg padkontrol, bcr2000, m-audio ozone, and an m-audio keystation. I also play bass (5 string, 5 string tenor, an upright, and a line 6 bass pod) and have a theremin and some other oddball instruments.
I'm starting to have enough material and confidence to start playing gigs but I have a few questions.
1. What's the best way to transition between songs? Should I put all of my clips into one live set (is there an easy way to do that?) or is there a smooth way to open the next set? (That's all very poorly worded. sorry.)
2. Can I have my padkontrol, ozone, and keystation set to play different instruments at the same time?
3. Should I run my other instruments through live or should i run them through an amp/pa
Fairly basic questions. Just wondering what seems to work best for people. Appreciate the input.
Re: A few performance questions
Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 8:28 am
by ziland
slapmybass44 wrote:I have a macbook pro, live 7, reason 4, korg padkontrol, bcr2000, m-audio ozone, and an m-audio keystation. I also play bass (5 string, 5 string tenor, an upright, and a line 6 bass pod) and have a theremin and some other oddball instruments.
I'm starting to have enough material and confidence to start playing gigs but I have a few questions.
1. What's the best way to transition between songs? Should I put all of my clips into one live set (is there an easy way to do that?) or is there a smooth way to open the next set? (That's all very poorly worded. sorry.)
My humble opinion would be to create a single set with everything setup in scenes.
Executing each scene would allow forward movement in the track. Building your transitions into the beginning of the next scene would also solve the transition issue.
2. Can I have my padkontrol, ozone, and keystation set to play different instruments at the same time?
Live is technically capable of doing this but since you have Reason, I would recommend using reason to lock each instrument to it's own board. Then routing each instrument through Reason's outputs to seperate channels in live.
3. Should I run my other instruments through live or should i run them through an amp/pa
This depends entirely on what you wish to accomplish. If you strictly want to play along with live, you can run direct to a pa, but, if you want to effect your instruments using live effects or record them with re-sample or direct lines in, you would need to insert them into thier own tracks in live and then arm them and set monitoring appropriately.
Fairly basic questions. Just wondering what seems to work best for people. Appreciate the input.
1. What's the best way to transition between songs? Should I put all of my clips into one live set (is there an easy way to do that?) or is there a smooth way to open the next set? (That's all very poorly worded. sorry.)
My humble would be to create a single set with everything setup in scenes.
Executing each scene would allow forward movement in the track. Building your transitions into the beginning of the next scene would also solve the transition issue.
2. Can I have my padkontrol, ozone, and keystation set to play different instruments at the same time?
Live is technically capable of doing this but since you have Reason, I would recommend using reason to lock each instrument to it's own board. Then routing each instrument through Reason's outputs to seperate channels in live.
3. Should I run my other instruments through live or should i run them through an amp/pa
This depends entirely on what you wish to accomplish. If you strictly want to play along with live, you can run direct to a pa, but, if you want to effect your instruments using live effects or record them with re-sample or direct lines in, you would need to insert them into thier own tracks in live and then arm them and set monitoring appropriately.
Re: A few performance questions
Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 8:34 am
by UKRuss
ziland took the words out of my mouth, my response exactly.
Although I favour choosing to reduce the number of instruments to play Live. might be something for you to consider first off. Record some of the instruments and render them to audio clips, and just play two or three of the midi instruments live, you have to consider CPU load.
As for transitioning, well it's what live is built for really. All clips in one set and move down through your scenes. You can then blend elements of your next track with those of the previous, DJ style for transitions, or use samples or blending noises like white noise swells. That allows you to make quite dramatic changes in tempo without it seeming strange or abrupt.
Would love to hear some of your sets with that array of instruments!
Re: A few performance questions
Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 3:20 pm
by slapmybass44
Thanks. That's kind of what I figured.
Is the best way to do that to export everything to the library and then organize it in a new set?
What is the best way to set the different controllers to only play a certain instrument?
I'm probably going to have some pre-recorded stuff to mess with and not run the basses through live. That might change when I can upgrade to 8 and use its looper.