Standalone “backing track” sync

Ok, so I searched the forum and couldn’t find a specific answer, so here goes:

Is there a way to easily put a full track in the mpc live and have it be a backing track. Like- when I used to play live I only used ableton to do this one function (most of my stuff is made in cubase- all hardware)

What I would do is just drop an unaffected full track in ableton and adjust the starting point and tempo so it would be on beat and I could sync other band members gear to my stuff. I assume this is pretty common, because it’s probably kinda what djs do, but I know little to nothing about djing except with vinyl.

Any help would be really appreciated!

Btw- by full track, I mean one wav, so just like one big sample that I can essentially just have in the background while I send midi out, and mess with samples on other tracks or whatever. I’m not too bad with the midi and sampling aspects of the live, but the audio track parts kinda confuse me

Lampdog wrote:You could also assign the big ass sample to it's own drum program and simply trigger it at the beginning of a very long sequence and it will play out..

You don't HAVE to use an audio track do you?

Ok cool- I did think that could be a possible solution that sounds good. Just wanted to make sure I wasn’t overlooking anything. Thanks!

Do u see any possible problems with this method?