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Hi,

I´m trying to find out a good way to use live9 and push for live performance.
L9 will be mainly used for softsynths and as an effect processor for incoming audio (vocals and guitar).

What I need is 2-3 midi (with different midi inputs) and 2 audio tracks per song. each track should have a dedicated hardware output. Push will be used as an instrument and controller (for all tracks for that song). For now no clip recording or playback is needed.

I can easily setup what i need for 1 song in 1 live-set. so i don´t need help for the basic routing

My problem is having more songs in the same live-set. I don´t want to access the laptop during the show to deal with opening and closing files and stepping through various dialogs coming up. Also the option to have overlapping sounds between songs would be great.

I need to rec-enable or activate all 4-5 tracks at once (and turn off all other tracks). to save CPU I´d like to disable the unused tracks/instruments/effects of the other songs (if necessary).
Grouping doesn´t really work (the grouped tracks remain basically totally separate tracks), racks don´t work for mixed audio and midi.

I know, i could build what i need in m4l. but maybe there is another way.

Thanks,

Karsten


(live9.2b12, macbook retina os 10.8.5)

Keyboard Mapping?

I would try to put all me songs in one set, separated by scenes, and use keyboard mapping to turn off/on particular groups of tracks. Would that work?

hmmm....

i didn´t think about keyboard mapping. could work i guess.
i planned to have my laptop (with the lid closed) at the side of the stage so i would prefer midi mappings. maybe push user-mode...

Thanks! i´ll try it out when i have time

it works
you can rec-arm several tracks together. you can also navigate with push between the armed tracks without changing the arm-state. pretty cool.

it would be still better to arm a group of tracks by focusing with push on one of them..

Do you have max for live?

Dummy Clips! that act as patch change, either changing chain select, or turning whole channels/instruments on or off.