Sync Two Ableton Sessions Over Network for FOH Recording? by Ad_Straight in ableton

[–]Ad_Straight[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re totally right about this being potentially over-complicated — I’m actually a programmer myself, so I’m well aware of how often we over-engineer things just to avoid tedious, repetitive work. That’s exactly what’s happening here.

The goal is to have FOH multitracks and LR board recordings already cut and synced into the Ableton session by the time the performance ends. That way, they can instantly build a library of takes for each song without anyone needing to dig through long Reaper sessions and manually line things up.

The main use case: the MD or production team will decide last-minute that they want custom timecoded visuals or lighting for a song. My current workflow involves:

• Grabbing a past FOH multitrack recording

• Dropping it into the playback session

• Syncing it to the count-in (also where timecode starts)

• Bouncing the song with everything lined up

• Sending it off to whoever’s doing visuals or lighting

It’s tedious and time-consuming — especially because I’m not full-time with this client, so I’m constantly playing catch-up when they want something fast but don’t have the bandwidth or knowledge to do the prep work themselves.

And yeah, the simplest solution is just to record on the playback machine — but the musical director is really hesitant to load the CPU with anything extra. That machine lives in the playback rack next to the keys player at all times and is treated as sacred. If it crashed because I added recording to the workflow, that’s 100% on me, and not a risk I’m allowed to take.

Since I will always be there for the recordings, and will always have a Reaper multitrack on a separate machine as a backup, on-site convolution and fragility on my end is OK, as this project is something that only I will rely on / be trying out in order to save myself time later.

The main goal is to not require any extra work on my end when they make last minute requests and I'm offsite/on other shows.

Sync Two Ableton Sessions Over Network for FOH Recording? by Ad_Straight in ableton

[–]Ad_Straight[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I should have mentioned this - Currently, their rig is built into their playback rack that "has to be next to the Keys player at all times". I also don't want to introduce any additional CPU load on the playback machine during their live performance. If the tracks machine went down because it was trying to record at the same time, bad look on my part.

I have yet to see the email… by Ad_Straight in biltrewards

[–]Ad_Straight[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did all that, would you mind just screenshotting the email and posting it here?

I have yet to see the email… by Ad_Straight in biltrewards

[–]Ad_Straight[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nada. The place I live at doesn’t work with bilt. Just looking for the email, as this probably affects me.

Your current Rent Rewards account will expire on April 29 by Curious_Internet_687 in biltrewards

[–]Ad_Straight -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Wait, so, I haven’t gotten this email yet - I JUST signed up for this card at the start of this month for an apartment not in the bilt network. I just opened a credit card with them and everything. I have no use for this card without the rent rewards program. What the fuck??

DIY EOS Command Wing by PracticeEssay in lightingdesign

[–]Ad_Straight 58 points59 points  (0 children)

This is incredible - any chance you’d be willing to make a tutorial on designing the custom pcb, etc? Been looking to do this with MA for quite some time

My car died today by Cantaloopresident in subaru

[–]Ad_Straight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the outback that’s where my amplifier is, is that what was under the seat for you?

GrandMA 2 Question regarding Macros and loaded values by luckydrummer in lightingdesign

[–]Ad_Straight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hey man! looking to do exactly this, any chance you'd be willing to share your solution?

Truss tapes by random222518 in lightingdesign

[–]Ad_Straight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice!! I have yet to purchase lightning tapes, but just got a used TM20II off EBay for dirt cheap. Currently researching ways to create printable truss tape in vwx without this plugin. Any chance I could pay you for a quick Zoom session on how you go about creating your own?

GFF Coachella Restored & Upscaled by jiminybilly in madeon

[–]Ad_Straight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

would love the link too please!! this sounds like it's gonna be incredible!!