so I have changed my live setup quite a bit.
I have both Ableton and traktor on my windows laptop.
Traktor uses the audio 10 with timecodes from my Technics 1200 mk2 decks
The audio 10 outputs (using physical cables) to my Allen and Heath Xone:4D separate channels for each deck.
The 4d sends this to Ableton using it's soundcard.
Ableton outputs all audio to the Xone:4D, which is finally mixed. and sent to headphones / output for broadcast on mixify etc.
The setup in ableton goes like this:
(this is in clip view)
[group]
- Drum Rack 1
- Drum Rack 2
[/group]
[group]
- Ident voiceovers
- Seasonal samples (eg halloween)
[/group]
- Massive
- Sylenth
- Piano
- z3ta+2
I have lemur (iOS app on my iPad 2) set up to control (well when it is totally mapped) ableton:
- selecting which synth i can play with my midi keyboard.
- select which drum rack is active/playing
- track volumes
- sends
- tracks in ableton from traktor
The traktor decks A&B got to 1 and 2 on my Xone:4D
the 3rd channel takes the drums and the 4th channel has the idents / samples and the vst synths
I have a launchpad which I use to trigger my idents, and seasonal samples.
The drum racks are played using the Nord Beat app on iOS (I use the 4 finger swipe left/right to swap between Lemur / Nord Beat.
what I want to do is use some effects in ableton, but cannot work out what is the best way of doing this.
Obviously it is gonna be effect racks and mapped to the macros.
would it be best to do each drum / cymbal / clap etc separate? or on the whole rack?
would it be better to do the traktor tracks separate or both together?
what types of effects work well?
any ideas?
I play Uplifting Trance, although i seem to find people who use this type of live set-up generally play tech house / techno (ie richie hawtin)
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