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I am getting ready to start playing exclusively in live and wondering if it happens that often. Any good stories or should I say bad stories?

the given advice is to play out your set ahead of time a few times and get really aggressive with tweaks and whatnot, overplay it.

there's been a few stories, I think they occured at small shows, every once in a while a story comes out about a major DJ rebooting.

Keep a CD/mp3 player on hand, running, switch over to it if you crash. reboot and jump around pumping your arms like you meant it to happen and it sounded AWESOME!

DeadlyKungFu wrote: Keep a CD/mp3 player on hand, running, switch over to it if you crash. reboot and jump around pumping your arms like you meant it to happen and it sounded AWESOME!

lol. classic move. The crowd never suspects a thing. give it enough time and kids will be mimicking your mistake claiming it's a new dj trick they picked up at a show. it's called the 2-second-gap-where-the-song-goes-offbeat technique

Especially now that abrupt breaks and cuts are becoming popular. Weird, that.

yeah. during a 2 man show, the pc laptop crashed unfortuantly when he was doing the driving - i always remeber the jeering and someone shouting "hes got a virus" - the trusty PB saved the day and the boy on the pc bought a mac the week after - a happy ending

i saw apparat a couple of weeks ago, and his lappy crashed in the middle of his set.
he didn't act like this was part of the show or anything. he looked rather sorry, holding his thumbs down.
anyway, the set was so good that i feel nobody really cared, everybody wanted him to reboot quickly and get the groove going again. which he did after a short while, for the audience's delight.

so i'd say that the best solution against crashes is to make good music!

jeskola wrote:yeah. during a 2 man show, the pc laptop crashed unfortuantly when he was doing the driving - i always remeber the jeering and someone shouting "hes got a virus" - the trusty PB saved the day and the boy on the pc bought a mac the week after - a happy ending

I've seen my share of macs crashing during a show, thank you very much :-/ No-one's safe!

The new sound of 2007: computers crashing, quantized drop-outs, set malfunctions (I'm working on a huge one with follow actions), a new beat repeat that sounds more like a cd is stuck, .....

If you think about, it's going to be one of the last years we'll be experiencing this stuff... (hopefuly )
Computers should soon be powerful enough to run 20 instances of reaktor 7 that fit in one single rack of Live 8.

It's only crashed on me once and that was cos my soundcard was messed up and loose.

its good to hear that it doesnt happen that often. Thanks for the input guys. I have heard of a couple of shows were crashes has happened one being at wmc of last year.

mine:

http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic. ... 575#372575

I blame it on the comp I borrowed. It was a huge mess.

peeddrroo wrote:i saw apparat a couple of weeks ago, and his lappy crashed in the middle of his set.
he didn't act like this was part of the show or anything. he looked rather sorry, holding his thumbs down.
anyway, the set was so good that i feel nobody really cared, everybody wanted him to reboot quickly and get the groove going again. which he did after a short while, for the audience's delight.

so i'd say that the best solution against crashes is to make good music!

What did he do while rebooting? Did he have some vinyl or CD playing or anything? Didn't leave the crowd sitting there in silence I hope!

Our band is performing in December and using Live for the first time on stage. We have a 'crash reboot' action plan though! We are fortunate enough to have 2 MBP's plus 2 external firewire drives with seperate OSX partitions, all fully mirroring each other.

In the event of a crash, we can reboot and get Live back up and ready to restart the song with 30 seconds. During that time our man on the mic will cover it up with some freestyling.

tree weeks ago the TiBook of dandyjack crashed twice during a sieg über die sonne live act.
but the sound was dope, very nice performance.

my pc notebook crashed only once in a long time, but i guess it happened
because i ran two instances of live. i did a long test at home before, but during the show it became so slow that i had to turn it off hard (task manager would have taken hours to open) and reboot. i had a trumpet and a sax player with me, so no problem. the people even seemed to like the two jamming and me joining in after a few minutes...