Dirty Bass - Live Acid PA

[the_psychologist]

holy shit, this is good

can you describe how you have configured your live setup? i'm starting out with planning my own act, and i'm very curious about how much you can actually do "live". and what's the best way to mix between tracks, DJ-style, while still having control over everything? i'm going to be using Live 7 from now on.

cheers

[dirty_bass]

holy shit, this is good

can you describe how you have configured your live setup? i'm starting out with planning my own act, and i'm very curious about how much you can actually do "live". and what's the best way to mix between tracks, DJ-style, while still having control over everything? i'm going to be using Live 7 from now on.

cheers

It would take far too long for me to explain everything
but breaking it down to basics

My live consists of tunes I have made in an exterior DAW, broken down into loops.

I run 8-12 channels of audio loops of song parts (grouped) so main kicks, main percs, hats, top end percs, riffs, bass etc
Then I run (on this particular pa, as I do different for different pa`s) 2 audiorealism bassline`s and 1 pro 53 vsti`s, live.

I mix part to part as much as possible as the shortfall of a lot of pa`s is going from kick, to full mix, back down to kick and next tune. Which destroys flow.
I try to keep my live pa`s sounding like a DJ set.

Much of keeping you pa together is how you lay all your parts into ableton, so you always know whats going on, and if you are improving and lose your way, you can always see where to go next on screen.

[the_psychologist]

I mix part to part as much as possible as the shortfall of a lot of pa`s is going from kick, to full mix, back down to kick and next tune. Which destroys flow.
I try to keep my live pa`s sounding like a DJ set.

Yeah, this is the part I'm most curious about. I'm trying to figure out how to lay it all out in the Session view and allow for smooth segues between all the clips. I know some artists have a skeletal set laid out in the Arrangement and sprinkle stuff on top to round it out.

My plan is to run some reverb VST, basic effects like delay, Bassline 2, and a hardware synth (Evolver desktop) in addition to the clips in Live. I have noticed that more serious softsynths can quickly hose your CPU, so those are out.