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How to get notified first of great music gear deals

I’m always on the search for music gear that I want/need/lust after. I also have nowhere close to the amount of money I need to get the gear I thirst after. Craigslist is an obvious place to start when looking for local gear that people are trying to part with. The problem is so are [...]

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8 steps to configure Ableton with loop and vocal cue tracks

A vocal cue track is an audio track set to a click, and usually ran along side of a loop, that is sent to your in ear monitors only and serves as a helper track, guiding you inside your arrangement. The primary purpose is to keep the band in sync with the arrangement and is [...]

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How to sync two live bands

Bryan Nelson at Vertical Resonator recently did a post showing how his church actually syncs two live bands in 2 different rooms for their worship service. He leads worship at Topeka Bible Church and is really doing some great creative stuff. The two bands play the same set, at the exact same time in 2 [...]

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How to transpose a loop in Reason

I receive a lot of questions and requests for transposing my loops so I thought I might as well give a tutorial on how it’s done. It’s really quite simple to do in Reason, so let’s get started. This tutorial assumes you have Reason and have opened some project. 1. Select pitched midi notes You [...]

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How to create your own click track in Garage Band

I created a screencast to show you just how easy it is to create your own click tracks in Garage Band. You might also be interested in my post on an OSX BPM widget that lets you tap out the BPM for songs in your iTunes library. You can click through to the video on [...]

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How do you send a click track to monitors and not mains?

Micah D. sent in this question on the “How to introduce click tracks to your band” post. How do I put the click track through monitors [and] the loop … through the main speakers? Good question. The goal is to get the loop playing through the mains and available to monitor mixes but the click [...]

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How to introduce click tracks to your band

Why use a click? I don’t want to assume we all know and appreciate the benefits of a click so I figured I’d start here. A click insures your band plays a song in the correct time and keeps your band in the correct time through the duration of the song. Without using a click [...]

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How to setup your Mac laptop for live audio

This site talks a lot of using loops in worship and I wanted to take a minute and talk about how to setup your laptop for playing any kind of audio live off your Mac. This posts focuses on mac because if you are relying on a windows machine to play any kind of live [...]

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