14 Jun 2009

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It froze…

So for the first time in about 2 years, I had a pretty interesting Ableton Live problem during the set.

The countdown video ended, lights went up…  I launched the click scene (launch BPM) for “You Lifted Me Out” to begin the set,
but nothing…..silence. Talk about awkward. Apparently my computer froze… which was strange. I couldn’t get Live to respond
at all. We ended up playing the song without click or loops (like that’s the end of the world, right?).

I ended up doing a hard computer restart during announcements (after the first song) and launched the MOTU and Ableton up again. Then we continued the rest of the set as usual.
I have no idea why it froze up like that. But I wanted to blog about it because it’s been a long time since I’ve had an awkard loop / albleton moment during worship.

The set today was You Lifted Me Out (Tomlin), Hosanna (Praise Is Rising), and Fall On Us Now (Dave Chumchal).
I just want to say that “Fall On Us Now” might be one of my favorite worship songs right now. If you haven’t heard it, check it out.

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Comments

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2 Mar 2011

Matt McCoy says;

hey dave,
make sure you’re exporting the loop out at the same bit rate you are playing in Ableton…
Also, make sure you are exporting the loop from pro tools from the VERY beginning of the measure. sometimes the warp feature is weird… i sometimes have to warp, and unwarp it a few times. or warp it manually and type in the BPM… see if that helps. sometimes you gotta play with it a bit. -mm

1 Mar 2011

Dave Lewis says;

Hey man,
I am a worship leader at a church in FL. I need some help with this loop stuff. I saw that you make your loops in reason then transfer in parts to Ableton. It looks like you were using follow action. When I make a loop in pro tools and bring it into live into separate parts and warp it, it sounds bad even if I have the right BPM. like a pad intro or something it tries to learn the tempo and comes out jittery? Help?

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