Band

Many gigging bands are using some form of accompaniment, either pre-recorded tracks or beat boxes, to embellish their sound. Many times, the bands feature multi-instrumentalists that write more parts for a song than can be played at once. When you have the multi-tracking capabilities of Live at your disposal, you can easily compile the parts you need for accompaniment and break them into scenes. As you perform, you can move through the scenes, or you can record an arrangement to play again during a gig.

Click Track

In order to stay synchronized with Live, one or more members of the band may want to listen to a click track—which is a metronome sound synchronized with the parts in your song. Usually, this amounts to nothing more than turning on Live’s metronome and setting the Cue output to a pair of headphones (like we did in the DJ example). The drummer will usually be the one begging for the click. He’ll play along with the metronome in the headphones, and the band will play along with him. As a result, you all play together with Live.