Hoping not to be the same old switching songs live question

[mbira]

Hi guys,
I've seen people discussing this re. Live 7, and I'm on 8 and hoping I might have luck here.

OK, like many, I'm trying to figure out how to easily move from one song to the next live. Problem:

1)We use the same external midi triggers to move from scene to scene in songs-therefore, I believe the "down and to the right" option of having all clips on one live set will not work.

2) I use reason via rewire on many of the songs-same deal, we need a different reason project open for each song.

3) I am using DMXIS to control lighting in Ableton which shows up as a VST plugin.

Because of #3, I think I need to avoid just opening a new ableton project as that will freak out our stage lights...

I guess I'm hoping that Live 8 has done something re. setlists that is different that what people are doing in 7?

I saw a little about people having multiple instances of Ableton open and/or using a macro to make things work for them?

Cheers,
Joel

[dbaudioware]

Joel,

You're right - DMXIS zeroes all 512 DMX channels when it is first opened, so yes, it would play havoc with your stage lights between songs.

BUT... if you can't find a solution using Live 8 setlists or whatnot, I can probably remove this behaviour - so that the DMXIS hardware interface "holds" the final lighting scene played in one Live project, while you close it and open the next project.

Let me know.

Dave.