Bc2000 (for the BCF2000 & BCR2000)

Hi Martin,
Aargh, cough, ack! Ableton crashing would be a nightmare! 

Of course you are right, for a proper professional show using computers, redundancy is a must. For this "little" show I was not planning to use two computers. After this sort of workshop public performance, I will have to think of redundancy when the show really starts to tour this summer. It's all still in the developmental stage which is why I can afford to experiment with the bcr2000 and midi control of Ableton.  

But tell me, have you had Ableton crash on you? What version of the software were you using?

When I worked at a large European art festival, a lot of companies came in running Ableton on laptops. I asked every one of them that I met if Ableton was stable in their experience. All of them said it never crashed, and if there were problems it was always operator error. Please share your experiences. 

Finally, your idea of a single button to a default general setting seems lime a good idea. Have to think what a good default setting would be..

Thanks,
Edward 

On Sep 13, 2011, at 6:34 PM, Martin Klang <mars@...> wrote:


On 13 Sep 2011, at 21:54, edco2003@... wrote:

> Actually Ableton tech support recommended I just use a static mapping with no control surface for this project. Their reasoning was that for a live mixing environment I would not really need to have tactile control of that many parameters. Once it would be set up in rehearsals, I would basically mostly need tactile control of track volumes, cue function, and maybe a couple of other things. The chance of moving the wrong control in the heat of a live theater mix would be less. 
> Thanks,
> Edward

Sounds like good advice - one function per control can be a good thing. Simple is good.
Another tip for live stuff is to have something like a panic button, or a simple, failsafe method of taking everything back to a known state.
And be aware that Ableton Live is, unfortunately, not totally reliable. Having a backup laptop setup may be important if you can't afford to reboot on stage every few shows.

/m