Ableton Live for Musical Theatre: Click/Backing Tracks
While MD'ing for the Concept Players's production of Evita I was met with an unexpected challenge; how to use backing tracks during a live musical. As we were using the 9-part orchestration, rather than the 18-part one, the Really Useful Group provided us with backing tracks of all the missing instruments, which the band would need a click track to play against to support the singers. The click tracks provided where stereo files - one channel backing track, one channel click. We were also provided with individual stems of each instrument in case we wanted to mix in a more venue-specific manner, though these weren’t necessary.
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