Music Tech Focus

TIPS FOR LIVE PERFORMANCE

Don’t Change Your Setup

n the week (or two) before your gig, it’s advisable to not change your setup. If your hardware is working perfectly, don’t change anything, not even a cable or plug. If your computer is fine as it is, then no more software updates until after the gig… and turn off automatic updates (that is not a musician-friendly feature!) We know how tempting it is to keep tinkering, change your routings, try a different software synth, whatever it might be, but it’s just asking for trouble. Instead of rebuilding, spend that time

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from Music Tech Focus

Music Tech Focus6 min read
PIONEER DJ Toraiz Squid
£519 Pioneer DJ already dominates the DJ booth with its range of CDJ players and DJM mixers and in 2016, the company turned its attention to a more musical range of devices aimed at live electronic-music performance and studio use – the Toraiz range.
Music Tech Focus6 min read
FOCAL Clear Professional
£1,228 Headphones are certainly becoming more important for music production, as more and more people take up this most satisfying of pursuits, only to perhaps find out they don’t always have the ideal setup or space for ‘proper’ monitoring. Manufact
Music Tech Focus1 min read
Akai Pro Force Overview
1 One of Force’s three main control areas, the display can reflect what’s happening with the pads, or show something entirely different, like the mixer, MIDI note sequencer, sampled waveforms, or instrument and effect plug-in parameters. Great for mu

Related