Ableton Live Tutorial: Force a Min/Sec Countdown in the Track Status Display

This video tutorial outlines a simple technique of setting up your MIDI clips on your Drum channel in a way that utilizes the Track Status Display as performance notes to help you pace the performance of your live sets.

Here is the link to the article mentioned around 0:28

http://www.abletonop.com/2011/10/zen-of-live-consistency/

Apparently YouTube only let's you have annotated links to other YouTube content. Please someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Ableton
• Live
• Music Production
• Live Performance
• Electronic

[Hamtosss]

This is a pretty cool little trick to know about, but my personal opinion is that it's much better to just count the 8 bars, then move onto the next scene. Create the music with your brain, not the software.

[AbletonOp]

@Hamtosss I generally agree with you, however I've done some remixes using some eastern sounding vocals where the phrasing isn't based on a 8 bar structure. Being used to western music, sometimes in the heat of the performance, you default to what you know, assuming the 8 bar phrasing, and then you get lost. So it's good to have a little reminder.

But I agree, use it as an aid, not as a crutch :)

[jessebrede]

Great tutorial with very logical ideas. I'm looking forward to more tutorials. Cool logo intro too.

[joshspoon]

This intro looks real nice guys

[MinimumSyndicat303]

you can also desactivate "loop" and use a follow action with "repeat" in order to see the timer when needed...

[fullenso]

It's the little things like this that really matter to me when it comes to performing. Thank you so much for this insight!