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Coming from making an album and in studio work to a live set brings a whole other world of changes and things to think about. It can be daunting after spending so much time in creating a track to then put it into a live set.  This tutorial is going to take you through my own process and show a simple and streamlined way of doing it. These techniques will lead to a great live performance that keeps a good amount of quality from the final bounce down. I will show off the ideas and if you want to get a preset Live Pack with an example set, in depth videos, and more then check out the Subaqueous Live Set Pack in the store.  Bounce Down the Track The first thing to do is go to your ableton project with the song you are getting ready for a live set. It is a lot easier for workflow in mastering and composing as well as for this step to keep your tracks organized. By grouping your tracks into groups you can easily bounce them down as

Creating your own instrument rack is a really fun and important part of electronic music production. There are an unimaginable world of sounds out there, but creating your own unique sound is very important to be known for your "sound". Killowatts and Vibesquad have a unique and unmistakable sound that helps them be known as musicians. This technique will also save you a lot of time in your actual song production. For the example of this tutorial I will be going over how I put together my (aq) Rhodes Pack from a recording I did of an Original Rhodes MKii at London Bridge Studios in Seattle with the help of CJ Stone and Brian Baron. So to start I dragged in an instrument rack. Then when you view the "chain" you can see only one. I dragged in 5 instances of Drum Rack. Before this I took the recording of my Rhodes and sliced it up into samples. Such as "c2" D2" and up the scale. Then I just dragged and dropped those samples into a different Simpler instance for each note of the drum racks. Now since I have 5 different mics I have

In audio signal processing, convolution reverb is a process for digitally simulating the reverberation of a physical or virtual space. It is based on the mathematical convolution operation, and uses a pre-recorded audio sample of the impulse response of the space being modelled. To apply the reverberation effect, the impulse-response recording is first stored in a digital signal-processing system. This is then convolved with the incoming audio signal to be processed. The process of convolution multiplies each sample of the audio to be processed (reverberated) with the samples in the impulse response file. - Wikipedia article   Convolution Reverb can add a whole new level to your sound design. By adding such a dynamic and realistic reverb you can make the most harsh "computer" sounding synth to have a some what realistic quality to it. Below is my IR library. The sounds were all taken off of free resources. {loadposition IR}   You can find a list of other websites with free IR's at: http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/printview.php?t=62458&start=0