I have been working on a live set for the past few weeks… completely ignoring overbridge, DAWs and computers.
I did my first ever live gig and now I have 6 or 7 okay-ish tracks that I have crafted for live performance on AR/A4/OT.
I now want to record a few of them and maybe polish them off for distribution/promo, without changing their character completely.
Do you guys recommend just jamming them in live to a single stereo track or using overbridge?
I find overbridge great for creating patterns in Ableton and sending midi to AR/A4… but when the patterns are already saved on the machines I find it very difficult to multitrack and keep the same structure. Then again I know that if I don’t multitrack the mix will suffer…
What do you guys generally do when you want to professionally record a composition that is saved on hardware?
just record a multitrack live jam using a soundcard.
I can´t recommend to record via Overbridge if you need a thight timing … if you are doing techno or so. Better do multitrack recording via soundcard. But if you like swing and groove, then it should be fine ^^
After recording edit the arrangement for your needs and start mixing. It will sound much more organic and alive then recording short clips and moving boxes in Ableton. But that just my experience of my last works … and cross your fingers for Overbridge 1.10
I record live jams of arround 10 minutes. if I´m not happy, I use only selected parts of the recording and use some fx like filter, chorus etc. afterwards. But sometimes I re-record selected tracks.
The arrangement is mostly a mix of live recording and box moving
Im in the middle of recording some tracks with the Dark Trinity.
I just recently dove into Overbridge.
It’s really cool in a lot of ways, but when you throw the OT in the mix, it’s tricky.
I set my Elektron boxes up slaved to the OT, where the AR and A4 follow per bank/pattern.
I don’t need to sync with Live at the moment, which is good, because Live is a headache with sync.
Currently I just capture all of the AR and A4 (minus a couple pads and external inputs.) via Overbridge.
The OT outs go to a soundcard.
I get the master from the OT just as it would be if it were live, to a soundcard.
I also route just samples to the CUE, and that goes to a soundcard.
I just start recording in Live, then start the boxes.
Adjust the track delay for the OT.
Without the OT, Overbridge would seem much easier to deal with.
I feel like the end result will be a hybrid of the OT’s master outs, mixed/chopped with individual outs.
If you already have the songs in the Elektron boxes, why don’t you just use Ableton as multi track recorder? Why would there be any sync issues using it that way?
I haven’t had any issues using it this way. My OT is the master and A4 and other synths sync to it.
I just use the Arranger view and have the same tempo set on Ableton and just hit record and then hit play on the OT. Then just perform live on the boxes. Once the song is recorded, I just add whatever effects or post production I think the song needs.
Agreed that the OT is complicating things also in my case… I find it tricky to multitrack all three. I mainly use it as an fx/mixer hub for this set so I’ll try to omit OT and just work with the OB enabled devices and see if that helps. Thanks JuanSOLO!
