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My "when I fell in love with a click" anecdote is about practicing etc and not live, which I've not done live with drums for years and I didn't use a click in my teens, so it's all a development of the last few years.
However I am 100% going to use a click live when I play with my band in our new real-instrumenta-not-laptops incarnation.
My ekit goes into ableton anyway, it's all there and we will use a backing track so it just stands to reason.
My guitarist had planned on having it to so I am interested to see so many opinions saying it should just be me! This has been a really interesting thread. Thanks all.
My question though, some parts I prefere a 4/4 click, some an 8/8 click. Some parts are in weird rhythms some are sensible but odd like 9/8.
Do I a) program a midi click section perfect for what I want to hear, and if so, do I add any queues and then only have that?
B) use the ableton click, but you can't change time signature at the hit of one control button (like start stop etc easy but you can't midi control the actual signature, and I can't trigger whole new scenes (that could do that) because of other things were going on in the daw), so I'll have to just have either 4/4 or 8/8 and play everything (Inc 9/8) to one of them. Maybe that would make me the better drummer?
Or c) some combo of the two?
Thanks
However I am 100% going to use a click live when I play with my band in our new real-instrumenta-not-laptops incarnation.
My ekit goes into ableton anyway, it's all there and we will use a backing track so it just stands to reason.
My guitarist had planned on having it to so I am interested to see so many opinions saying it should just be me! This has been a really interesting thread. Thanks all.
My question though, some parts I prefere a 4/4 click, some an 8/8 click. Some parts are in weird rhythms some are sensible but odd like 9/8.
Do I a) program a midi click section perfect for what I want to hear, and if so, do I add any queues and then only have that?
B) use the ableton click, but you can't change time signature at the hit of one control button (like start stop etc easy but you can't midi control the actual signature, and I can't trigger whole new scenes (that could do that) because of other things were going on in the daw), so I'll have to just have either 4/4 or 8/8 and play everything (Inc 9/8) to one of them. Maybe that would make me the better drummer?
Or c) some combo of the two?
Thanks