Hey everyone, it's Oscar here with MultiTracks. I want to share a quick tip on how I use Ableton's group tracks function. Grouping tracks is a great way to organize your tracks for live mixing and adjustments. It gives you the ability to control more sounds with less mapping to your MIDI device. I group my tracks by the instrument they belong to, loops, guitars, keyboards and strings are all separate groups. So when I go to map them to either my MIDI keyboard or my iPad I only have one fader for each instrument. Lately, I've been doing this more and more since many of our new MultiTrack sessions can have up to 20 + stems. During sound check I found myself spending too much time adjusting individual faders. Now, by grouping the tracks has saved me some time during sound check, but it does require some set up time beforehand. Here are the steps to be able to do this.

This video features Russell Dunlap, Ableton Programmer from Lakewood Church, talking about why he uses the "Arrangement View" when running tracks in Ableton.  

Learn from Ableton Live Programmer Russell Dunlap as he walks us through his basic setup of Ableton and Pro Presenter.  There are many different ways to trigger tracks from the stage.  Russell shows us how multiple people can fire off the session through an ethernet connection between two laptops communicating via ipMIDI.

In this video we will show you how to use our MultiTracks in Ableton's Session View.

Have you ever had to stop your tracks because you got off the arrangement?   When using the arrangement view you have the ability to quickly get back on track.  Russell Dunlap, Ableton Programmer from Lakewood Church, explains the use of the quantization menu and why he setting the menu to "1 Bar" is a good option for looping your tracks in Ableton Live.

Recently, MultiTracks.com had the opportunity to sit down with Russell Dunlap the Touring Programmer for Cindy Cruse-Ratcliff and an Ableton Live Programer for Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas.  Dunlap took us on a tour of his live rig which features the use of two laptops and an iPad2 as a midi trigger! Dunlap shows us how one laptop runs Ableton Live while the other runs Pro Presenter.

Earlier this month MultiTracks.com had the opportunity to sit down with Russell Dunlap who is the Touring Programmer for Cindy Cruse-Ratcliff and an Ableton Live Programer for Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas. Last week, Russell took us on a tour of his live rig which featured two laptops and iPad2 as a midi trigger. In this video Russell goes more in depth on how Ableton and Pro Presenter communicate with each other using Bome's Midi Translator Pro via ethernet using ipMidi from his Ableton laptop to Pro Presenter on the other laptop.