Formatting Stems and Mulititracks for Live Performance

One of the biggest mistakes I see Playback Techs make, is they manage stems, not sets. If you want maximum freedom and flexibility when using tracks, and you want to build sets efficiently, you've got to manage Sets not Stems.

In this week's tutorial, Ableton Live Certified Trainer, Will Doggett walks you through part 2 of the 3-Part Framework for Using Tracks and shows you how to use the free tracks template to format all your stems and Multitracks for live performance.

With about 5 minutes of work, you'll save hours of effort and have maximum freedom and flexibility.

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Managing Track Volumes for Live Performance:

Saving your Tempo in Ableton Live's Arrangement View:

How to Save Song Sections in Ableton Live:

Warping in Ableton Live:

Using Sends and Returns in Ableton Live:

Creating an Ableton Live Template for Live Performance:

Formatting Praise Charts Songs (Tutorial Coming Soon!)

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[markus.ivi]

That's the best tutorial I have ever seen, thanks from Poland!:)

[bobalobalee]

Such amazing, free and much-needed content for live electronic performers. Thank you!

[aldobmusic]

From the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU

[dannyhermida]

Thank you Will! You're doing the Lord's work!

[gabriel_levi]

So so valuable. Thanks a ton for this!

[jeremilicata]

What tips do you have for averaging all of the volume for each track? Just doing it by ear or is there an easier way of doing it?

[ahoski]

I love you Will. Thank you for these videos.

♥️

[donmathews]

Hugely helpful!!!
I'm a fresh Session to Arrangement View convert.
Thanks!!

[JensenFraProvinsen]

I would love a toturial on how to split up your stems to the return tracks.

[calebvanderburg]

One of the issues I'm running into is my stems are warping to the next songs tempo in my set when I want them to crossfade from song to song. How can I prevent them from changing tempos? When I inactivate WARP on the tracks, they no longer line up with the click...

[drewlaplante]

Great stuff. Thank you! Gotta get the midi click for tracking as well. That’s super useful 👍

[MILLofficial]

Wow you saved my life!! 😛Thank you so much!!🙏

[madsweigelt]

I love this tutorial - but does it come in a short version? Sort of a step by step - no explanations

[synthseeker]

You remind me of Jonah Hill's character in the film "Moneyball" - advocating a process that makes sense but is radically different from what the artists generally evolve for their own performances...but a great and efficient approach nonetheless. Very helpful and thank you!

[moydominguezmendoza]

Incredible content!
Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge.

Could you help me with the following? I have already made my set list and all the songs in the order in which they will be played. At the last minute the artist tells me that song 3 will be 1 and that song 5 will be 2 😰.

How can I rearrange them without everything becoming a disaster?

[jorge_schlueter]

thank you so much! This is awesome dude

[mikehendrickx]

Thanks Will, for this great video. Yet it seems I'm not able to insert a midi clip with cmd-shift-M...? Neither by checking the "Create" Menu-button. Any advice?

[brettbangerter]

Great video! I have run into an issue with using the free template where my returns show up in arrangement view but not in session view. How do I fix this?

[solikmazhuga]

29:44 its okey if I will use the main Ableton click sound?

[kevx]

This video is so good! Exactly what I need. So do you create a separate session for every song? And then you're just able to drag each one individually into a set?