By Sooty_G
Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:21 am
like most of you, when i'm working on a new song i use the SAVE ENTIRE MEMORY option to save all my work into a new folder (one folder per song).
now lets say you're preparing for a live set and you've selected which songs you want to do & what order you want to perform them in. the problem is that each song is in it's own seperate folder & needs to be loaded independently. this gives you two options:
1. you can load each project right before you perform each song.
PROS:
there isn't a lot of prep work or room for error since everything is already organized & kept separate.
CONS: you have to stop your performance in between each song to load your stuff. this breaks up your set & you would need some additional hardware onstage to generate some sound to cover the gaps while you load stuff.
OR...
2. you can put all of your material for the set in one big folder/project & load it ahead of time.
PROS:
everything is set to go. can switch immediately from one song to the next.
CONS:
major prep work required with a lot of room for mixups. all sequences and samples need to be named uniquely.
my question is how do people here set up to load their stuff for live sets? option 2 seems the best from a performance point of view but it seems like a nightmare to set up. for example, what if you use the same sample in 2 different songs but one is looped & the other isn't. wouldn't you need 2 different copies of the same sample since the loop info is stored inside the sample itself? also, how would you go about merging all of your stuff from separate projects into one big folder/project since everytime you load a project in JJ os it clears the entire memory?
are there any other options i'm missing here? i'm curious about what different approaches people use.
now lets say you're preparing for a live set and you've selected which songs you want to do & what order you want to perform them in. the problem is that each song is in it's own seperate folder & needs to be loaded independently. this gives you two options:
1. you can load each project right before you perform each song.
PROS:
there isn't a lot of prep work or room for error since everything is already organized & kept separate.
CONS: you have to stop your performance in between each song to load your stuff. this breaks up your set & you would need some additional hardware onstage to generate some sound to cover the gaps while you load stuff.
OR...
2. you can put all of your material for the set in one big folder/project & load it ahead of time.
PROS:
everything is set to go. can switch immediately from one song to the next.
CONS:
major prep work required with a lot of room for mixups. all sequences and samples need to be named uniquely.
my question is how do people here set up to load their stuff for live sets? option 2 seems the best from a performance point of view but it seems like a nightmare to set up. for example, what if you use the same sample in 2 different songs but one is looped & the other isn't. wouldn't you need 2 different copies of the same sample since the loop info is stored inside the sample itself? also, how would you go about merging all of your stuff from separate projects into one big folder/project since everytime you load a project in JJ os it clears the entire memory?
are there any other options i'm missing here? i'm curious about what different approaches people use.