Using Logic Pro On Imac G5 For Live Gig Options

[elpasadoDarturo]

What is the BEST way to perform live (at bar) using Logic Pro with iMac G5?

I have a hard time, well, it takes a lot of time loading each individual song project...Open - Perform song - Close, then open the next project....It seems to complicated but Then again, I'm New to live gigs, logic I have used for a while.

Can someone please help?

Art

[houstonmusic]

live sequencer/computer systems are never fast enough. but i've used DP and Live in performance situations, and a few things sped up the load-perform times.

in DP, i use only 1 project, with many 'chunks' that are essentially different songs. I find that rendering my many tracks to audio-only stems, with the effects printed in already, speeds up load times. a fast external drive helps. some backing tracks don't need any live remixing at all, and they get bounced to one or two stems. others get a more flexible treatment. I then treat the individual stems like cells in Live, bringing them in and out to perform the arrangement on the fly.

Live is more suited to this free form process.

i will say that a G5 imac is not a particularly fast machine, though i understand the need to have a 'beater' out on gigs. i'd bet an intel laptop of 3 years ago would be cheap and measurably faster.

good luck.

This post has been edited by houstonmusic: Thu 24 Dec 2009, 17:40