SIMPLE Guide to Live Backing Tracks with Ableton Live

If there is something you think I missed or anything that you'd like me to explain drop those questions HERE 👇

So were the backing tracks pre recorded by the band memebers? Or created by ableton?

So awesome. People complain about cheating dont realize that music is not a competitive sport haha. Thank you for your video! Do you happen recommend a particular laptop? Say a budget one? Cheers

If you use master out 1 for cues and 2 for tracks won’t your tracks be in mono? Or only come from the right PA speaker?

so so so helpful
thank you!

Can you also process vocals though the same ablation project running the back tracks? So you can sing with full processing over them?

Um. No. If you’re a 4 piece band you should not use backing tracks. If your a one man show fine because it’s all out there and very obvious. This is cheating if you’re a band. Hire a keyboard and another guitarist who can sing back up. Smh.

GRACIAS

great tutorial very helpful thanks! please do more!

Very cool for backup stuff but still don’t solve what I’m looking for. “Live”. I want to solve my mics being used with plugs for fx’s but still get feedback because it’s always processing in live mode. Real live means I can plug my mics into my audio unit and use plugs. Live still can not do live show like hard gear PA system.

Great video, dude! Helped me a lot! Cheers from Brazil

Hey man thanks a lot for this incredible guideline! Quick question, how do you know set levels? For now on, I've muted drum, bass, lead vocal, lead & rythmn guitars. I only have FX, Synth, Vocal harmonies set at 0db. I added a rythmn guitar to thicken some parts set -10db. The whole thing is hitting -6db (cause drum and bass are muted). Should I leave it like this? Or should the master volume be hitting 0db and not -6db ?

This a very dumb question, maybe i missed it, so sorry, but I wanna learn, so this is playing in the back ground and people watching are also hearing it, but there are the metronome and the counts which are auidble only to the band members, and that is my question, how do you set that up?

hi. excellent video, it helps a lot. where i can find that precount speech? thanks

How do you start and stop playback without fiddling with the computer on stage? What if you want to skip ahead a song or back a couple songs?

What does Ableton give you for this that you cannot do with Audacity?

I’ve watched this 3 times now. It’s very good. It’s so full of information it took several views to catch everything going on. But very helpful.

Absolutely Amazing and Super Informative!!

Any videos on how to plug in the system into a mixer/cable routing? 👀

Video very well received! 😊

How do you split the click to your in ears from the interface ?

Did you create your queue track yourself or do you have a link to where I can buy one

The lesson was great, but the music SUCKS! Do you have any bands that are any good?

Thanks Dru, really great video and info. You have given me a great place to start with creating backing tracks for my solo electric guitar set. Thanks 🙏

This is the first video I found that's actually been helpful. Building a live tracks rig for my band for the first time. Thank you so much

I love these backtracking videos , its taken so long for it to become norm with lots of groups , I've been backtracking for at least 35+ years , first time was with cassette ( pain in the butt) then we started sequencing with the very first Mac,from there to ADATS , Fostex 8 track recorders, back to MMT8 sequencing , now im using my iPad.

Very nice guide, Thank You. Just one question - how did you get thos tempo countdown sound ? ;-)

Hey drû! Excellent tutorial, I have a question regarding the signal flow/cable routing for this to work. I’m just getting into IEMs so I’m not very familiar with the wiring/cables needed to run the tracks out to FOH. I know you mentioned needing either an interface/splitter cable, but Any other hardware/gear I would need? And where would you recommend these cables run though for either splitter/interface? I’m a drummer that wants to have control over click track/backing track volume on my end and am okay with FOH monitor mix. Hopefully this helps for context…Thank you so much for an awesome video, learned so much!

Gold content 🔥

I press a to edit the click tempo and nothing happens ?

Great video! I have one question regarding vocals on backing tracks. I have some backing vocals to help our bass player who also is do backing vocals. Would it be an idea to send those dry out to a channel without effects and let the FOH use the same effects on it as he or she would have used for the bass players vocal mic?

This was extremely helpful! I just got started working with Abelton

Hey drû
I just need to wrap my head around this routing here. 

When sending the track and the click/cues to separate external outs – doesn't that compress your stereo track to mono? If yes how could you rout it to not be?
And how would you route it in your IEM system?

Great video for someone like me who is just starting to dip their feet into backing tracks and in-ear monitoring.
Keep it up⚡

Will Logic Pro work with Live Backing Tracks?

Excellent tutorial

Thank you so much for this