And Live is not a KJ application, it’s a universal music swiss army knife. So lots of basic features for queueing singers are not things you’ll find in Live, or you won’t find them in the obvious place.
Here are some tips that will let you run a karaoke night using (exclusively) Ableton Live:
- To keep track of requests: Create a track in the session view called “playlist” and list your requests there, searching and copying them from your bookmarked folder of karaoke videos using CTRL/CMD-C and CTRL/CMD-V for copy and paste respectively.
- To queue a song: Copy it to the arrangement view. Use the “CTRL/CMD-F” key (”Follow”) to skip ahead to where the playback position is.
- Don’t always use Warp: If warp doesn’t work, or if the song is a dramatically different tempo, don’t bother using it. But remember, if you don’t use it you won’t be able to segue to the next song.
- Don’t worry about mixing everything. Lots of times end-to-end is totally okay.
- To minimize stuttering in the video: See this post on Dealing with large libraries in Ableton Live
- To change the key of a song: Find the “transpose” knob in the “Sample” section of “Clip View” and tweak it!
Live gets even more useful when you run your microphones through Live. Keep reading: Running mics through live for compression and live recording.
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