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Are you guys making your final mix mostly in Live or do you export/record your tracks to another DAW (ProTools, DP..?)

Just curious....


W.

both

I do final mix/master in Live most of the time, just like keep it simple.

One render, then one finished tune.

Ashley_K

I haven't decided yet/haven't used live for long enough.

But I'm thinking of routing sub mixes to the desk and mixing down from there while jamming live. Problem is I don't really have anything to record to at the moment.

Any sugestions?

ive done some tracks 100 % in Live, then some rewired into SX for the Mix.. the lack of mix groups and PDC puts me off mixing in Live but sometimes I dont mind it, depends on the track really..

How do you use Rewire for mixing? do you just have audio? no vsts?
And what do you mean by lack of mix groups?

fladd

fladd wrote:How do you use Rewire for mixing? do you just have audio? no vsts?
And what do you mean by lack of mix groups?

fladd

First of all if ive got any VST FX / VSTi's going on in Ableton I render them, then I just rewire the audio into SX, sometimes I pass some of it through outboard gear on the way and actually record it into SX (maybe even all the audio then I shut Abelton), sometimes I just use the rewire and keep Ableton running tll the final mixdown. I often start thinking of new parts to use and load some more VSTi's at this stage..

Mix groups are like buss's on mixing desks, in cubase you can create group tracks then say send individual channels to that track and have a compressor on the whole bus or maybe some overdrive or EQ, whatever really..As far as I know you cant do this in Abelton (unless im missing something)

Overall id probebly say that 80% of a track is created in Live, then I get cubase on the go to mix & add a few bits and bobs, I hate starting a track in SX though, hate it.

you can create mix groups in Live pretty easy.

make a new audio track, name it 'drums'

open the channel area .. refered to as the 'in/out' are by Ableton.( It's the one with 'Audio from', 'monitor' and 'audio to') anyway open that bit on one of your tracks to be routed.

'Audio To' - probably says master, well point it at your new track 'drums'

repeat and serve



the only problem is the lack of colapsibility on the source tracks though (to hide them)

Angstrom wrote:you can create mix groups in Live pretty easy.

make a new audio track, name it 'drums'

open the channel area .. refered to as the 'in/out' are by Ableton.( It's the one with 'Audio from', 'monitor' and 'audio to') anyway open that bit on one of your tracks to be routed.

'Audio To' - probably says master, well point it at your new track 'drums'

repeat and serve



the only problem is the lack of colapsibility on the source tracks though (to hide them)

nice one, obvious but id missed it..... now just to sort out the PDC Ableton.....

you can also have busses using the send channels. route your tracks to the sends and select 'sends only' in the output drop down menu of your tracks. your send tracks can be hidden, as well as your audio tracks when you only want to work on the buss/send channels.