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Mixing music live on a Laptop

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 2:37 am
by Jingles
(oppologise if this is the wrong board to ask this on)
There seems to be a few music producer-y type people on this forum, i was wondering if any of you could help. I've been making tunes on my laptop for a while now, using mainly Reason, and i want to try mixing my music live.
I can't figure a way of mixing live on Reason alone, could you suggest a way of doing i've not thought of? Or suggest another program i should invest in to help me? Any help would be apreciated :)

Jingles

Re: Mixing music live on a Laptop

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 6:41 pm
by hippy dave
ableton live is pretty well regarded for playing live :)

Re: Mixing music live on a Laptop

Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 8:59 am
by memly
Yes I would agree with the hippy.

I use Reason when I play at gigs, but I have created a "noise mixer" where I trigger a few sounds to hide the transition between tunes. I have been told that Ableton Live is the answer but I really cant be bothered... lazy.

Maybe you could rewire 2 Reason windows into Cubase. Using a channel on Cubase per Reason. Maybe the internal clock would synchronize the two open versions of Reason?

Re: Mixing music live on a Laptop

Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 2:36 am
by Jingles
Cheers dudes,
I checked out that ableton. It seems to be what i'm lookin for.
But if there's any more suggestions keep 'em coming :)

Re: Mixing music live on a Laptop

Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:25 pm
by Dog
I seem to recall someone making a performance tool for Reason too, allowing for some live interpretation. Buggered if I can remember what it was called though... I read about it in Computer Music aaaaages ago.

Re: Mixing music live on a Laptop

Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 8:29 am
by amongst_the_pigeons
i use ableton live for live stuff and logic for the recorded stuff.

http://www.amongstthepigeons.info

http://www.myspace.com/amongstthepigeons

has examples of my work....the live show will be coming to a town near you in 2009.