just press play on the track and turn knobs on a mixer not connected. no seriously ive been thinking alot too on this and it would be interesting to see how people are doing it. i assume u use the clip-view in ableton and trigger diferet parts, both audio and midi. then have midi controller to control, level, bass, treble (and the triggering maybe?) and also maybe filter and release on synths? i dont know im just guessing how it could be done, i want to do it myself soon. but i would need some kinda sick midicontroller.

Idk who plays live nowadays cause everything always sounds the same who knows. But my friend and I get together and play a whole live set. It's always sounds different of course. We use a few electribes, a few kaos pads and a midi controller. You just have have to know your sounds and patterns well on the machines. You can also use ableton and use loops, again you just have to know your loops/patches well for things to go together and you can have fun playing live.

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^ That's the most feasible way I can think of to do it.

If you could find a way to get 30+ channels going at the same tempo through a mixing desk, you could have the main elements of two or three different tracks playing at once and fade them in and out as you pleased and maybe manipulate stuff like filters and other synth parameters in real time. When you wanted to play other songs you could gradually switch out new elements and switch synths or patches as necessary.

Of course, this would require a lot of preparation as far as knowing which synths and samples you were going to route through which channel of the mixing desk, when to switch which samples and patches, etc.

Cool so?

If i leanred say 10 basslines on the keyboard even if it was just an off beat pattern changing note.

My friend learned like 10 chord sequences

My other friend pre programed 10 drum sequences and messed with filters live

We got some fine ass bitch on the mic

Some dudes hitting cowbells and generally making noise we could take it on the road.

Now where do I find

a) some mates
b) a fine ass bitch
c) A keyboard player
d) and some backing folks

LOL

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Originally posted by Sonic_c Now where do I find a) some mates b) a fine ass bitch c) A keyboard player d) and some backing folks LOL

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Processing a highly structured and complex pattern of sensory input as a unified percept of "music" is probably one of the most elaborate features of the human brain.....understanding how music is perceived and how it may elicit intense sensations is far from being understood.

Ive wondered this lately also, if the machine crashs and your playing live what do you do? I mean most the time it wont, you obviously have the best kit you can get make sure evereything is updated and running as it should. But if deadmau5's or anyone else's for the matter laptop crashed what happens next?

Anyone here play live know the answer or experience this? It just puts me right of even relying on it to do a set. I suppose the done thing would be to swicth to the cdj or turntable, lol just answered my own question - anyway would love some thoughts on this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVR1dgDecM4

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