While Freeze is a pretty great technology, expecting that it will solve all of your collaboration woes will lead to disappointment. My experience is that as Sets get large and complex, it gets easy to accidentally miss a track that needs to be frozen before you hand it off. A few thoughts to help improve […]
COLLABORATING: EDIT FROZEN AUDIO
When working with frozen audio tracks, there are some important things you can’t do, such as messing with Warp markers and adding new effects. Typically, the Flatten command is used to turn a frozen track into a standard audio track. When a track is flattened, the original track is thrown away and replaced with a […]
COLLABORATING: EDIT FROZEN MIDI
So, what do you do when you’re faced with a frozen track but you want to do some sort of editing that’s not allowed? In that case, you have to get a little creative… Let’s look at the example of MIDI editing. Since you can’t edit the MIDI in a frozen track, the first thing […]
COLLABORATING: FREEZE!
To easily share Sets between two different computers, both computers must have the same plug-ins installed (or rather, all of the plug-ins used in the Set being shared). When the necessary plug-ins aren’t available on both machines, the common workaround is to use Track Freeze. First, a bit about freezing tracks, then we’ll talk about […]
ABOUT COLLABORATING
The next topic I’m going to spend a few days writing about is collaboration. In particular, we’re going to look at some of the thorny technical issues that come up when moving a Set back and forth between multiple machines, and having people both make changes to Sets on their own, which then need to […]
SAVE PARAMETER CONFIGURATION
As I’ve alluded to a couple of times already, the most complete solution to the hassles of plug-in parameter configuration is to create a Rack that contains your fully configured plug-in. The process looks like this: 1) Configure the plug-in’s parameters 2) Use the Group command to put the plug-in into a Instrument or Effect […]
ABOUT PLUG-IN PARAMETERS
Today’s tip isn’t really a tip. It’s a bit of background information before we get into a few related tips… When Live 8 came out, we finally got the ability to fully automate and remotely control plug-ins with greater than 128 parameters. Along with this came the configurable parameter area: For any plug-in with less […]
(RE)ARRANGING FOR THE GIG
Now that I’ve got the exported files, it’s time to get back into my performance set and get the my clips organized. Once I’ve dragged the new files into my set, I’ll set up several cue points and loops as described in One Song, Multiple Clips. In the prior tip, the track Polly was broken […]
EXPORTING FOR THE GIG
How you export your minty fresh grooves for your upcoming gig depends on how your performance template is set up. If you use a straight up DJ approach, it’s very simple – just export the output of your Master track and you’re done. My set is a little different. At any given moment, I tend […]
MASTERING FOR THE GIG
Before you export the arrangement you’ve created for your performance set, you’ll need to do a little basic mastering. Here, we are getting into one of those subjects where no matter what I say, someone will shriek with horror that I would ever suggest such a thing…so first off, lemme tell ya: I’m a pretty […]
