My First Time Running Tracks and Automation with Playback

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[benjamintubbs]

Love the simplicity of Playback. We automate all of our lyrics and lighting with it. So easy!

[benjaminattaway]

I am a worship leader of a church plant and numerous people have mentioned to me the value of multitracks and playback however I haven't yet sat down to do my research until now. Thanks for sharing this video and your experiences; it was helpful to see the interface and how you use it on a Sunday. God Bless!

[joshpetermann]

Playback has saved me so much time as far as administrative work goes. It’s incredible.

[mattwoltjer]

So what I do for the lighting cues is I have two different types of cues. I have scene changes that cover color settings sent from propresenter. And then I have intensity and eye candy settings coming from playback. So the color changes happen from pro7 but whether they’re moving, blinking, fading, or just different intensities is all controlled from playback. I used to be a hardcore ableton user and I’ve switched wholeheartedly to playback. When it’s combined with ChartBuilder and the propresenter integrations I spend a fraction of the time doing the same amount of work that used to take me much longer.

[destinypaez]

We love how easy and accessible playback is and the simplicity it offers

[tanelusin]

Hi! Can you also share the video of that worship session what you did with this setup?

[helengonzales]

Can you explain more about the the connectivity from laptop to house and how you ran the outputs. I'd like to recreate this same setup.

[SoDakProduction]

We’ve loved using playback!

For starting a pad during the sermon, I’ve created a macro in propresenter that sends a midi note to Playback to start the pad. We have a streamdeck that pushes that macro, but it could be done directly through propresenter as well.

[nessacristine]

2:02 Why don’t you like to use the iPad? I have an old MacBook Pro (2015) and a new iPad Pro (latest generation) would it be ok to use the iPad Pro for this? I just don’t have a lot of faith in my MacBook Pro 😅

[joshuabellinger]

I am REALLY struggling with choosing to start the track journey at my church with Prime from Loop Community or Playback from Multitracks. I know you did a comparison video 4 years ago, but I feel like both applications have evolved quite a bit since then. Would it be possible to produce an updated comparison video to aid in this decision that I feel like a lot of us face? Thanks for all you do!!

[stephanlaine]

We switched to playback on Mac last year a day after we came from experience conference and have not gone back to ableton since then. Multitracks was there and I spoke to them about the frustration with ableton it was awesome to hear about the frustration Hillsong was going through because it was the same frustration we was having week in and week out. One big thing about ableton that was frustrating was that we have three different services one being English, Spanish and our youth, half of my week was programming ableton since the switch to playback it takes me one day to program three different services. I highly recommend playback. I only do wish that for people using Dante that we have more output options only having 8 channels kinda sucks.

[matthewsnyder]

I'm so torn on this. We've really liked how user friendly Playback is. But we've really missed the lack of control over individual tracks. There's also a pretty significant difference in sound quality that's been a bummer.

[natepurifoy]

I would like to see a time code track that I can send out to tech. All of our automated light cues run off of a time code. It seems a really simple addition that could be pretty universally applicable regardless of lighting software. Just a timeline I can sync my cues in the light software to.

[wayneebersole]

We use playback for click and tracks. I mix them with the playback mixer to blend with our band. Don't use the pad feature anymore because we have a regular keyboard player who does our song transitions. Since we use Proclaim, I'm not sure there is any integration with Playback and Proclaim so we don't use it for auto slides.

[jaygreentree]

I have that L.R. Baggs accoustic guitar eq/tuner. Its been a great addition to my rig.

[DuncanDonuts]

Can you talk more about number charts! What do you do if you want to do. Specific arrangement? Do you have a special software for making charts from scratch that you’d recommend? Thanks for what you do! Such a great resource!

[xHLGTrashcanx]

Never thought I'd see the day! Great vid Jake

[thedrumssayyes]

We use playback. Church of 5k over three campuses. Works great!

[ImATreeHuggerSoWhat]

How did you tie your different mac devices together for the midi? We have a Mac mini running lightkey, a Mac book pro running ProPresenter and then I run Playback from a iPad mini on the stage. I'm not sure how to connect the 3 devices... Bluetooth? That seems unreliable. 😕 Is there a hardwire way? Or would Bluetooth be best since we are running playback from the stage?

[OrbofShingeki]

Probably will do this route when we have the cheddar 🧀

For now it's manually recording tracks and running all of it through a daw! 😁