Originally Posted by
Morior
Playing live is when you create something new. A-B mixing in my view is not Live, it's more of a presentation. For DJ's it's more of a statement of what they like at the moment and what they think the crowd will like. For live playing you have to go beyond that.
You need to be creating something new, moulding the sounds, the intensity the builds. Any time there is only one track playing you have stopped playing live. The clearest version of live playing would be Harmonic mixing where virtually no track is played through but parts of the tracks are queued and fitted in with other tracks through the use of EQ's filters effects etc. there can be a lot of prep done on this but it's no different to a band practising before a gig. (You could extend the subject here to include bands, is playing s tightly defined set of chords really live or do you only consider free form Jazz live?).
You can use sync and all the tech tools available to you provided that each time you play the set you bring something new, no two sets should sound the same even if you play the same pieces in the same order.
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