Bullet Days
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we're currently rehearsing for live shows, hopefully by summer. our music is electronica, kinda like sneaker pimps or garbage maybe. our music has loops that are combined together with drum tracks to make cool and weird sounding beats. our problem is playing the songs live and staying in time with the loops. to start with, i made a mix of the songs without the vox, guitars, and drums (and later w/o the bass and some keyboards once we get those players in the band). we play the mix thru the PA and we play along with it a la karaoke. it works out ok, but there are some parts, especially when there are no beats going on, that we lose track of the timing and we all mess up coming back together. i know this can be remedied by providing a click track at those silent parts, but then the click track will be heard by the audience, right? i don't know how to make a mix so that there's a mix that just goes to the drummer w/ click tracks, and a mix that the audience hears w/o the click tracks. our last resort is to just take out those loops, but some of them we feel are very essential to the song that to take them out is to lose the soul of the song.
also, i'm sure for our music we'll need a sequencer of some sorts to play those loops when we start doing this for real (or am i wrong?). i'd like some recommendations as to what gear we might need to get. we do have a triton le, and i think that has some sequencer capabilities. thanks guys.
also, i'm sure for our music we'll need a sequencer of some sorts to play those loops when we start doing this for real (or am i wrong?). i'd like some recommendations as to what gear we might need to get. we do have a triton le, and i think that has some sequencer capabilities. thanks guys.