Bleja
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Posted : Apr 14, 2011 14:34:40
Hello everyone! I am going to have my first live act in few weeks.. Can somebody explain me that process, what do i need from equipment and how to do that? Do i need to have my own laptop or what? Thanx in advance.
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Posted : Apr 14, 2011 15:13
Well live acts are all about creativity.
You don't need much equipment to start.
Many acts choose to play their leads live, some do drumming, filtering, some just have it all automated so it all depends on your creativity...
First worry about making your music, than you can worry how you are going to interact with the crowd.
Here is a quick example of that you can do .
Using a cutoff filter to tweak that lead live
Hope that answers your query.
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Posted : Apr 14, 2011 15:32
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On 2011-04-14 14:34:40, Bleja wrote:
Hello everyone! I am going to have my first live act in few weeks.. Can somebody explain me that process, what do i need from equipment and how to do that? Do i need to have my own laptop or what? Thanx in advance.
Hey! A few weeks is a quite short time... Do you have any songs produced already? If yes, (and I guess you have, otherwise you wouldn't have that gig) there are mainly two ways of playin' live: live or fake
Fake is quite easy to explain: take your songs, make a mix of 1 1/2 or 2 hours, master it and put it to Ableton Live. Maybe you make two tracks and put one song on the first, one on the second track. Then you put maybe some FX on the master, lp and hp filter for example, that can be tweaked while the gig, and voila, you're playin' live. This is the way it is done by the most acts, you just need a notebook and there you go. I don't doom it, mostly the songs are very well produced. The advance is, that nearly nothing can go wrong, the problem is, that you can't change the vibe of your set, so maybe the crowd expected something else and gets bored.
Live needs a little bit more work, and there are as many possibilities as artists. Live ranges from guys like him:
Bleja
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Posted : Apr 14, 2011 15:34
hello thanx for answers. Well about equipment i just have my pc (desktop) and pair of speakers. I ment to ask Am i going to play tracks from laptop in cubase or some program? Do i need to make mix of my tracks in wav and play it?
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Posted : Apr 14, 2011 15:36
Yes straight out of Cubase, Abelton Live, Logic, etc. That's where the creativity begins.
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Posted : Apr 14, 2011 15:37
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On 2011-04-14 14:34:40, Bleja wrote:
Hello everyone! I am going to have my first live act in few weeks.. Can somebody explain me that process, what do i need from equipment and how to do that? Do i need to have my own laptop or what? Thanx in advance.
Thanx this is the answer i was looking for! Many thanx!!
Hey! A few weeks is a quite short time... Do you have any songs produced already? If yes, (and I guess you have, otherwise you wouldn't have that gig) there are mainly two ways of playin' live: live or fake
Fake is quite easy to explain: take your songs, make a mix of 1 1/2 or 2 hours, master it and put it to Ableton Live. Maybe you make two tracks and put one song on the first, one on the second track. Then you put maybe some FX on the master, lp and hp filter for example, that can be tweaked while the gig, and voila, you're playin' live. This is the way it is done by the most acts, you just need a notebook and there you go. I don't doom it, mostly the songs are very well produced. The advance is, that nearly nothing can go wrong, the problem is, that you can't change the vibe of your set, so maybe the crowd expected something else and gets bored.
Live needs a little bit more work, and there are as many possibilities as artists. Live ranges from guys like him:
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Posted : Apr 15, 2011 19:16
I would say 2 weeks is way too short a time if you are serious about playing live (as live as it can get). Otherwise you probably have to fake it with a few twist and turns.
Personally I would never say yes to play live until I have a full live set prepared properly and know what I am doing and actually know what equipment to use.
My advice is to try and cut all tunes into loops and use those loops in Ableton Live where you will be able to play around with the loops and create new tracks as you play live and add effects and new loops etc. on top. But I am not sure your time frame is long enough.
Otherwise just Dj your tunes. It's way more honest IMO www.beatagency.dk
the most important thing is to take your midi controller and map it to nowhere so you can turn the knobs and push the keys with a lot of style while drinking and wink at the girls dancing in front of you
load up the tracks as audio tracks in your DAW. then just create all transitions from track to track. then put effects on the channle or channles those tracks are in and input effects, then tweek those with your midi controller its quick easy, and your not just sitting there doing nothing. http://soundcloud.com/brentmalik
