![]() When I fire a track in Ableton, it triggers a MIDI cue to be sent via WIFI/Bluetooth which can launch the correct song inside OnSong. Now I use it in conjunction with Ableton. I originally got it to save me carrying around a massive folder with music in. ![]() You can upload songs from Dropbox, Planning Center, SongSelect, and other places. It allows you to do a wide range of things, like make set lists, transpose chords into different keys. This is an iPad app that holds a library of songs that we use. If you get stuck they care and are always quick to respond. They have original tracks, and ones made by other contributors. They are super great people, who have a passion for putting out the best produced tracks. If you are looking to download some pre-made backing tracks I would recommend Loop Community. I create them all in Logic9, and then convert them into files for use in Ableton. This is useful to have when we haven’t gone over the structure many times. It is also great practice for me! Everything that we use is to a Click track, and a Cue track (Intro/Verse/Chorus/Bridge/Repeat,etc). I make a lot of our own backing tracks, as it gives us a flexibility to change structures, etc. My last blog covered the positives & negatives of this.Įither way, this would mean bringing a 19u rack as well each week (currently up 3 flights of stairs, or the slowest lift imaginable!) Whereas now it all fits inside a Pelicase – which is lovely and portable. Or use the last two outputs, and feed them into a 6ch Headphone Amplifier, allowing up to 6 people to share a stereo mix. and allowing extra monitor sends to be sent from the Sound Desk (if required). When more musicians emerge, we would either use a split rack and send everything to FOH as well as the Interface, allowing FOH more control, and freeing up 2 outputs. Her overall mix is louder, this is mostly down to using less isolating headphones. She doesn’t have any click and very little guitars. Here you can see the difference between mine and Abi’s InEar Mix’s. It also allows us to save settings, making recalling last weeks set quick and simple. This involves us using 6 of the assigned 8 outputs, meaning that if we were to expand to more musicians, the system becomes slightly more complex. We use it to send a stereo mix to FOH and then Two separate Stereo InEar Mix’s. This program controls all the inputs and outputs of the interface. ![]() Now that it’s been upgraded it sits around 10% – 25%.įocusrite Scarlett 18i8 – this USB interface has 18 ins, and 8 outs, as well as a powerful routing program ‘Scarlett Mix Control’. Before I upgraded the RAM is sat in the 80% – 95% area. I added in a CPU Meter just to see how the performance of the Mac was doing. With this, I can swap through the patches via MIDI output on Ableton. This has been useful to me, as it’s forced me to think more about what I want to play and how I want to fit into the mix. Depending on the song means we can have a very clean Tube amp or a High Gain Solid State Stadium Rig. It also gives me more ability to change the sound of the amp on the fly. When using the Electric Guitar alongside the set, i started to use Mainstage for the guitar amp(s) rather than carrying my 15kg Tube amp up 3 flights of stairs. We have also played around with using ProPresenter as our Lyric Presentation Software, its possible to fire all the lyrics in time with the tracks. With one button I fire the backing track, Click & Cue Tracks (both on separate outputs), Guitar Amp settings to change, iPads to change to the right song. It truly is the powerhouse to what we are able to accomplish. It has a wealth of options, and allows multi channel playback of Audio and MIDI (with the ability to add images / lyrics / videos via MIDI Protocol). It was far to complex, looked ugly, and there must be something better out there for my needs. I saw many people using this software a few years back, and promised myself that I would never use it. But when I finally upgrade to an SSD the Mac will take on another new lease of life. Its a mid 2010 model, that I have upgraded the RAM from 2gb to 8gb (that was a sweet day!) The hard drive is consistently full, mostly due to my large music collection. This is not a brand new high spec computer, with the latest hardware / software. All ins and outs are covered by my audio interface, a Focusrite 18i8, which then feeds the InEar Mixes and FOH Mix. The heart of the rig is a Macbook running Ableton Live 9 (Standard Edition) – this is what fires all Clicks, Cues, Backing Tracks, Stems, Song Words & Chords, Guitar Amps & Effects via Mainstage, as well as having the ability to fire videos / logos / song words from ProPresenter. I shall give a brief overview and then go into detail about the various areas. As well as the advantages / disadvantages of doing it this way. I have had several questions as to what I use, how it all fits together.
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