Live Tips: Solo and Muting strategies.

asdf989 · Post by **asdf989** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 3:09 pm

I'm interested in using the ESX live and I want to know if people have any tips on soloing/muting parts and start/stop patterns.

I'll just list a few things I do know to give people ideas of what I'm after.

Tip1) I sometimes with save my pattern with parts muted so that I can introduce the new parts slowly.

Tip2)
a) IF you hold solo and press multiple parts, then you have only those parts playing (obvious). Now you're in 'Solo' mode.
b) If you follow this up by holding MUTE and pressing more parts, you go into Mute mode where all the old solo'd parts are now unmuted parts.

I'll ask a few questions now
Q1: Is there any more useful key combination's I'm missing with the 'Solo/Mute' buttons. I find the ones I just listed in Tip2 to be a bit awkward.
Q2: Are there any features that let the Mute/solo behavior quantize to the end of the Bar (ie Ableton ). I don't like that to Unmute a part is instant or can unwantedly retrigger the sound. Sometimes I want to setup the unmutes 3 beats early so I can focus on something else for the change.
Q3: Can you do any Legato pattern switching? IE pattern A is on beat 2 and you switch to Pattern B for beat 2-3 and back again for beat 4.

asdf989 · Post by **asdf989** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:34 am

Here's another tip I found in the manual and in the Forum.

If you press SHIFT-PATTERN the pattern flips back to the originally saved pattern. You can then cancel back to your altered pattern by pressing the PATTERN button again.

These things are gems to me. I'm sure lots of people know them already but I've only had mine for a week and these things aren't obvious.

Any more tips??

Ruso · Post by **Ruso** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 5:25 pm

have motion sequences recorded, but turned off, and introduce them into the pattern along with progression.

also, this one is a bit odd but if you have a large set it helps a lot... keep notes on your patterns nearby.... or create with a naming scheme for patterns that tell you about them....

for example brk1mot this way you know the song is breaks, and it has motion sequences...

starving student · Post by **starving student** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 1:12 am

I love stuff like this please anyone and everyone that knows something please post it up, and thanks to those that already have I very much appreciate this .

@ruso how do you introduce the motion sequences in progression?
sounds like a great tip

SherwinBoshi · Post by **SherwinBoshi** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 3:26 am

starving student wrote:I love stuff like this please anyone and everyone that knows something please post it up, and thanks to those that already have I very much appreciate this .

asdf989 · Post by **asdf989** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 10:15 pm

starving student wrote: @ruso how do you introduce the motion sequences in progression?
sounds like a great tip

That is a really good idea.... How do you do that?

I'm really interested in things like this where you can get a lot out of your pattern without having to load a new pattern.

gil videla · Post by **gil videla** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 12:21 am

[quote="asdf989"][quote="starving student"]
@ruso how do you introduce the motion sequences in progression?
sounds like a great tip[/quote]

That is a really good idea.... How do you do that?

I'm really interested in things like this where you can get a lot out of your pattern without having to load a new pattern.[/quote]

I think what Ruso is saying is you record your motion sequences.
Then when you come back to playing the patter, have the red LED for MOT SEQ off (trigger or smooth, have it off) then turn it back on as you need

did I understand correct

TrondC · Post by **TrondC** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 11:41 am

that is correct, and a great way to make alterations to your patterns without saving as 2 seperate patterns

I must admidt I didn't know about the shift+pattern feature before, but that's awesome!!!

killedaway · Post by **killedaway** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 11:17 pm

TrondC wrote:I must admidt I didn't know about the shift+pattern feature before, but that's awesome!!!

psst! your hint was the word "COMPARE" above the Pattern button!

TrondC · Post by **TrondC** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 5:37 am

killedaway wrote:
TrondC wrote:I must admidt I didn't know about the shift+pattern feature before, but that's awesome!!!
psst! your hint was the word "COMPARE" above the Pattern button!

haha yeah, what can I say, I'm a slow learner ...

asdf989 · Post by **asdf989** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 10:13 pm

Good tips so far!

Does anyone have any tips on using 'Audio In' functionality

I'm trying to perform some live improvisations by using the audio in but its not working so well for various reasons. If the incoming signal is really busy I get lots of clicks (as there's no attack on the envelope generator).

I'm going to post this in a new message as its important enough to ask.

asdf989 · Post by **asdf989** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 11:00 pm

ANOTHER TIP

If you hold SHIFT-SOLO you can tun on/off ALL drum parts or ALL keyboard parts | stretch parts | slice | audio in parts as a whole.

This makes it a lot easier than trying to frantically tap the 9 drum parts in 100 milliseconds.

asdf989 · Post by **asdf989** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 8:55 am

Does anyone know any better ways to not have to press mute followed by the part you want to mute? The fact that it requires two fingers and nearly 2 hands to mute a part is slowing my down when I try and play live.

I rarely use the 'Press a part to hear the sound' feature when I'm playing live as the sound is normally out of time. I guess some people want to jam like an MPC but thats not how I use it.

Dj Pound · Post by **Dj Pound** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 4:56 pm

I like to use the accent technique occasionally.
Say you got a Kick on pad 5, it could be any pad though. And say that that pad is step 9 in your sequence. Quickly press the accent button and look for step 9 when the accent lights light up on the step grid, hit the step 9 key and switch back to pattern mode.
You now have an instant mute!
Considering your accent level is on 127, the accent will mute the sound perfectly.
Im not saying this is any better of a way of doing things as opposed to say just pressing the mute button and muting what you want. But this technique is just a another good alternative that i'd thought i'd mention.

Peace!

Dj Pound · Post by **Dj Pound** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 5:02 pm

that accent trick also works good for open hats and closed hats and also samples that you want to cut in half instantly without manually dialing in a level change using a motion sequence.