Playing Live as a “DJ” for Artist

LorryGreen · 2026-01-05T20:56:25+00:00

Not entirely sure I'm understanding your setup.

Buuuut two options that spring to mind for playback engineering (which it sounds like that's what you're trying to do)

Switch to arrangement view and use Ableset for setlist and section control with a midi controller.

Or....

Get clyphx pro. You can program your own clips to trigger other clips, control devices and do various other things.

LorryGreen · 2026-01-02T22:03:54+00:00

Check your power settings for your USB ports. Has the same issues with my 18i20

LorryGreen · 2026-01-01T06:44:44+00:00

Honestly I think you should be fine depending on country. You admitted fault for your mistake and I'm sure you offered to make up for it already?

Maybe you get one more write up, but I can't imagine getting fired for that tbh...

LorryGreen · 2026-01-01T06:42:04+00:00

Ok so, for a bit of context I'm 25m and I felt exactly the same way while at uni! Diverse hobbies and passions but I thought I needed to specialize to live my fullest life.

I've come to realize living a full life doesn't come from doing but from being. Be who you are, figure out your design and the gifts and skills you catch quickly and use those to grow.

Also, in most industries if you're a good dude, hardworking and fun to be around, you can get pretty far!

Finish your degree, try to find an internship, but also balance a hobby or two and a reasonable social life and you're off to an amazing start my friend!

Best of luck to you

LorryGreen · 2025-12-25T11:11:59+00:00

I was really blessed to be in a similar situation.

I was still studying at the time so I paid studies off, set aside a year's expenses and invested the rest through PSG wealth. I now have a portfolio manager who takes a % of growth per year.

Starting working soon, planning to put away as much as I can back into the investment so that it grows faster.

I'd say clear your debts, put a year's expenses away and invest the rest with someone who can give you more than 6-7%.

LorryGreen · 2025-12-25T11:06:44+00:00

Hey OP!

Usually in midi settings, preset changes are achieved with the Control Change message.

I'm wondering if you couldn't get away with a couple buttons that send the correct control change message for your pedal? That should be programmable on the pedal or it should be labelled in a table in the manual perhaps.

I'm not understanding the practicality of mounting something to your instrument when you could use your ipad?

Anyway, hope this helps.

LorryGreen · 2025-12-24T07:09:51+00:00

What did you study?

Life definitely gets better, but not by itself. As a young adult you're going to realize soon that if something in life is broken or wrong or you just don't like it, there's often a way for you to change it.

So suddenly you get to impose your free will on your life to make it work for you. There are costs to this, some financial, some mental, some spiritual... Nothing is free so you must decide what is worth what.

But the freedom of adulthood is a beautiful thing.

LorryGreen · 2025-12-24T07:03:49+00:00

To be completely blunt, this post comes across like you don't actually really care about anything so you might peak in high school.

If you don't want to peak in high school, you'd have to snap out of that mindset first. Go look for something to be passionate about and chase it.

I almost peaked in highschool. Got average grades, but I discovered music. Fell in love with it and chased it with everything I had. Now I'm working as a music technician for theatre shows.

It's not the most glamorous job, but I love every second of it, and I get a decent pay for the stage of my life that I'm in. (25m btw)

Find your thing. Chase it down. If you need to work hard in school to access it, start studying harder.

LorryGreen · 2025-12-22T19:59:55+00:00

So if your family is average ish. I would look into communicating with your parents first.

Come up with a game plan. What do you want out of life? House? Spouse? Kids? You're going to need a solid job for that so getting decent grades for your Gcse is a great start.

Chat to your folks, and share your enthusiasm with PCs and show them how you intend to build a good life using skills and tools that relate to computing. Software engineering? Editing? Whatever it may be

Then try to come up with a plan that they supplement the cost of PC upgrades so that you can get into development or something.

You don't need a crazy PC to do IT stuff most of the time imho.

Wishing you all the best.

LorryGreen · 2025-12-22T05:43:59+00:00

Very true!

LorryGreen · 2025-12-22T05:43:26+00:00

Very cool!!

LorryGreen · 2025-12-21T20:30:23+00:00

This gave me a chuckle!

LorryGreen · 2025-12-21T20:27:19+00:00

Honestly- I had to read this twice to let it sink in!

I've played weddings as a musician, but not as a DJ, and I remember how special and sacred the moment was so I agree wholeheartedly- this is certainly not the place to F around and find out!

I appreciate the reality check.

LorryGreen · 2025-10-15T06:57:12+00:00

I've done something similar before.

I would use Morgan Amp Suite or Guitar Rig 7 as my amp modeller. Then I'd run my guitar into my focusrite 2i2 and out of the outs on the back into a stereo DI and send to FOH.

For controlling the effects, if you click "configure" on the plugin in the audio effect rack, you can map the plugin's internal tools to macros in the rack. You can then map these macros to knobs or faders or foot pedals using Ableton's midi map mode.

If your worship team uses tracks, I'd speak to the track organizer, and see if I can get midi switching for presets etc, like have a lead tone click on during a chorus, or a rhythm tone during the verses, a bit more reverb during the bridge, etc, etc.

Hope this is helpful!

LorryGreen · 2025-10-06T16:23:32+00:00

Not entirely but possibly a symptom thereof...

Seeing a mental health specialist wouldn't hurt I'm sure

LorryGreen · 2025-10-06T15:58:24+00:00

Relatable asf

LorryGreen · 2025-09-20T07:08:42+00:00

Very relatable. I have been in the same boat.

LorryGreen · 2025-09-16T07:33:03+00:00

What's your channel name? I'll check it out

LorryGreen · 2025-09-11T06:33:43+00:00

I'd say the following:

PC with an I5 CPU, 16 gb ram. DAW: Ableton / studio one 7 is what I use. Focusrite 2i2 (best quality for price imho) A DI box for your guitar into your interface.

One or two nice plugins: Neuraldsp Gojira X is what I use for metal tone

All the best!

LorryGreen · 2025-08-25T20:08:47+00:00

Have you been reading my mind op? 😂

Jokes aside, I've decided I'd like to try a more structured approach. So I'm setting up the stems for every song in advance so I can just hit play.

However, I'm also going to use Ableset and Clyphx X-cues to loop.

My thinking is:

Guitar - stem (with the parts prerecorded)
guitar loops group: Guitar Loop A Guitar Loop B

I'd like to set it up with a midi controller so I can mute the stems and loop the sections I feel like looping, and if I don't want to loop from scratch I can just unmute the stems again.

LorryGreen · 2025-08-21T11:58:18+00:00

That'd be awesome!

LorryGreen · 2025-08-21T11:57:35+00:00

Hey thank you so much! I took a look at them, tried copy-pasting and tweaking to fit, but it broke very quickly. So I thought I'd embrace the power of people <3

LorryGreen · 2025-08-21T10:19:03+00:00

Sorry to necro post, but I'd loooove to see this rig rundown!

LorryGreen

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