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Hey Joe. Thanks so much for reaching out. I am glad you have found this content helpful! I wish there was a super straight forward answer here - unfortunately there isn't one, but I do have a few thoughts that might push you in the right direction for what you are doing right now. When I run my keyboard sounds out for church services, I run all of my sounds out stereo by category, Keys, Pads, Leads, Aux. I do this because there is a dedicated sound guy who is able to help make everything sound perfect in the room. I can get things close from my monitors, but it's helpful to have someone put the final touches on things as is appropriate for the space. When I am playing live gigs, I mix everything using output buses, and then send the sound guy a simple left and right out. I do this because usually I don't know who is going to be running sound, and I typically will have a better feel for what works with my sound than someone who I have never worked with before. In both cases I run out of my audio interface into a set of passive DI's and thats that. My clarifying question for you is, In what why are you unsatisfied with your current sound? answering this question may shine some light on what tweaks to make on the way from your computer to your PA. Using amps can add a lot of character to your sound, but will also complicate the process of getting everything to blend well. I think unless your computer is crashing, I would stay away from running two computers. Some people reccomend redundant rigs, but I think in most circumstances this can be avoided. I hope this is helpful. Feel free to ask any clarifying questions. Happy to help as much as I can.

@@LiveKeyboardist Yes thanks for taking the time to respond to me. I'm not the best with audio production but I'm still learning. I feel like there's a lot of things I might be missing here. For a while I was using my looping pedals in sync with my guitar and banjo for live shows- percussion from the banjo with my amp - then straight into the PA. These past few months I've been using my computer more and live looping with Ableton and using a midi foot switch so I can be hands-free. Now I came across a new problem. Depending where I play the PA isnt the best and I've been just giving them 2 quarter (stereo) inch cables into their d i. If I don't bring an extra monitor speaker for me I lose a lot of sound especially if I live Loop my drums. I was playing today at the studio and figure a solution, getting a powered PA speaker 4 my sound. Thanks again for reaching out to me! I'm always doing research and thinking about getting reamp box. Would love to use my amps live somehow. Or a player piano type instrument for my loops! God bless! Checkout my channel sometime too.

Glad you found this helpful. You could certainly record clips on the buses. Would be a fun approach

You should turn them off by mapping them to the correct chain selector value. I tested that out yesterday with a very complex live set (I play keyboard in a Pink Floyd tribute band - tested it for my The Wall setup) and if you do not turn off the devices CPU will skyrocket. Ableton also says in their online help that this is the best practice.

@@SLATER_M Thanks for the answer! Not sure how to do that, though. If an instrument is on chain 2, is it automatically turned off when I select chain 3, or do I have to add a step there ? Thanks!

@@MisterDelay Step 1) Map the Chain Selector (the slider thing in the chain view of the instrument rack) to a macro knob of the rack (name it "chain" or so). Step 2) Right click on the device on/off toggle of the device and select "map to chain". Step 3) Click the "map" button of the instrument rack and set the values 2 to 2 at the value fields in the mapping for that device and it will only be toggled on if then chain selector is at position 2. In the Ableton help there is also a nice description how they think we should do it ;) help.ableton.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000727359-Using-the-chain-selector-in-a-Rack

@@SLATER_M Ouhhhh thanks a lot for this, I will definitely try it ! Have a good day!!

Glad you found it helpful! Has to do with which kind of message your controller is sending. Check to see if it is a momentary message or a toggle. Then change it on your controller.

@@brettpontecorvo9001 Thanks.

The two things that come to mind are if there is a launch quantization set for the clip, or if you are using a controller to fire the clips, there is sometimes a delay if you have remote turned on for both the input and the output of your controller