Performance Prep

[misterpatrick]

Hello all,

Fairly new to Live and looking for some pointers. I am converting our songs from Logic to Live and curious how people switch between Live Sets? Is switching between sets in a project using the browser the preferred method? I have seen a lot of tutorials but they all seem to use Arrangement view whereas I am using Session view for my sets. Thanks!

[Greenapples2019]

Hi, we have all the 30+ songs for a gig in one set in session view so no need for us to switch between sets on the night. Never had an issue once it's all up and running. Each song is between 1 and 6 scenes in session view and we have about 50 tracks covering vocals, instruments, midi commands, FX etc.

[misterpatrick]

Thanks, I’ve slowly been building the songs and switching between sets seems to be pretty seamless. One annoyance is that I get a “save” prompt sometimes when switching even if I haven’t changed anything.

I’ll be doing a lot of live vocal processing so will have to check how much delay between switching sets there is for the vocal mic. For that between song banter etc.

Learning lots about getting things going for Live performance stuff! I wish there were more tutorials about setting up these types of things. Everything I’ve managed to find has been about Arrangements not Sessions.

[DunedinDragon]

I use arrangement view on my desktop computer to put together each song. I then convert each track from that song to a WAV file (via Freeze and Flatten from the MIDI files) and import each track into a column within a single row in session view in Ableton on my live performance laptop, each one constitutes a song in the set. So a single set consists of maybe 10 or 12 rows with between 3 to 6 columns depending on the number of instruments in that song. This reduces the overhead during live performances and I don't have to worry about plugins, etc on my laptop. I also have a MIDI Out column in each song for coordinating stage equipment changes for that song and a Stop column which signals Ableton via LoopMIDI when to stop playing at the end of each song. When I prepare a show I just import the tracks for each song, import the MIDI Out track, set the Stop point, and set the time signature and BPM for each song.