If you use backing tracks on stage I ask you one question. What are you
going to do if something goes wrong. Hey this is all dog. Today I want
to show you how to set up the play audio. Twelve one is just a normal 10
or 12. Output audio interface and then two and most importantly how to
use it to create a really simple affordable redundant playback rig
So let's get started. So let's talk about the first thing you should do when
you pull your play out of 12 out of the box. Obviously plug it into your computer.
Check for any firmware updates.
But what I'm going to do is use the Oracle software to make sure the gains
on all my outputs are turned out. So I've included the link to Oracle in
the description so you can download it. It's an easy brand new software
control from eye connectivity. I'm gonna go in and you see plaid 12:00
sharp here. I'm going to do select device and what I want to do is just
confirm that all my output gains are turned up. What I've seen sometimes
with plenty of times is when I plug them in I don't get audio immediately
and it's because my gains are turned down so I would suggest plug in your
audio interface one confirmed that you don't have a firmware update if
you bought it brand new you probably DUKES It's been sitting in a box and
then to make sure your gains are turned up.
Now let's start talking about this just as a normal audio interface and
not for redundancy. So as a normal audio interface it's an incredible solution.
You're gonna have 10 to 12 outputs you can use the headphone outputs left
and right as 11 and 12. If you want to or you can use just the 10 outputs
on the back does a lot of really cool stuff you can share it between machines
so you can use tracks on this machine keys on this machine split 6 and 6.
We won't talk about that in this video super simple to do or you can just
use it as a 10 or 12 output interface.
I'll show you how to do that. So I've got it connected to this machine
I've got able to live open and what I want to do is press command comma
to configure this audio interface I'm going to go to the audio tab here
and under audio output device I'm going to select play audio twelve so
the play audio twelve selected as my output I want to configure my output
so I'm going to click output config and you see have the option to choose
either mono outputs or stereo outputs for the sake of this I'm just going
to use model outputs here's one of the most important things to remember
if you're using this as just a normal standard audio interface is make
sure you don't use outputs 13 and 14 that's just for syncing tone for redundant rig.
So what I want to do is just go ahead and turn off outputs 13 and 14
If you're not using the headphone output then go ahead and disable eleven
and twelve as well. I'm going to hit. OK. Obviously there's tons other
options like naming outputs I can do and able to live I never do that so
I could adjust my buffer size here. Again not going to talk about that
but I've got my interface selected and I'm ready to go. So I could go in.
And in this case I've got return tracks setup and I'm going to wrap those
return tracks outputs on my interface I'll do x or allow I could do one.
Let's just do a couple of these for now.
Get a link to the video on showing how to set up a audio interface where
I go a little more in depth to this. Let's just do a couple of these return
checks now. So the first and most important thing to remember when you
use this as a normal audio interface is again do not rule out two outputs
13 and 14. The second most important thing is on the front panel make sure
that the scene a button is lit up which means it's green. And that means
it's expecting input on the A side or input one. So I want to make sure
I plug my computer into input one right now.
Both machines connecting some of the talking about redundancy in a moment
but I just want to make sure I connect this computer to the A side to seen
a input one and make sure that my light is green. Now if I've done all
that then when I press play I'm going to have output coming out of all
my outputs and again they're all discrete outputs so one is one all the
way to 12 being 12 which is great. So super straightforward super easy
to do. Now if you're looking to use headphones eleven and twelve as separate
discrete out you're going to have to go into I can fake and make some changes
not going to talk about this in that video but at least this will get you
going with 10 outputs really easily.
But now back to that important question of having a backup plan if you
use backing tracks live you've got to have some sort of backing plan you
have to have some plan for redundancy using a play audio twelve makes this
incredibly simple and easy to do. So let's talk about how we have this
connected one. I have my main machine connected to the first input here.
So this is input a and then my second backup machine is connected to input
B using USP and the way I want to trigger both these machines at the same
time so they're in sync is Eason and a LP K 25.
I've got a USB cable plugged in here into the USP host port and I'm just
going to grab my midi controller. OK. So I'm going to set my midi controller
here so I can get to it easily. So if my mini controller connected I'm
going to go in and make just a couple of configurations that I'm going
to do my mini mapping. So let's do command comma on both of these machines.
We're gonna go to the link MIDI tab
and what I want to do I'm going to start on my a machine as I want to go
to the input side here. And for USP 1 to 1 which is my host port which
is what this is connected to I want to make sure that remote is enabled
because I want to remotely control Ableton Live from this controller do
the same thing over here. I'm going to go to my second machine or says
input play audio 12 host one and I want to make sure that remote is enabled
no matter what your says whether it says you must be one to one or host one.
Make sure it's that first port if you're using this with the host port.
So now with remote enabled I'm going to close down this I want to go to
mini map mode command and on both these machines and you see I've already
made some mini mappings but let me just delete the one for play and I'll
show you how I did this. Some both machines are going to click play and
then I'm going to press this button and you'll see it maps on both of my
machines at the same time. Now I've linked to the video below that shows
how to set up a mini controller able to live and I explain a little bit
why I prefer doing custom mappings like this as opposed to using remote
scripts with that setup let's press command and to get out of MIDI map mode.
So now the way this works we haven't talked about audio output a redundancy
yet but essentially what I can do now is when I press play it's going to
start both of my machines at the same time I can press stop and it's going
to stop both of my machines at the same time and then as I talked about
in our mini mapping for live performance video which I've also linked below
there's four mappings I have placed stop previous locator next locators
I can play both machines and then I can skip ahead a few locators and both
of my machines are going to follow those commands at the same time.
So super super cool. So that's how I'm triggering both at the same time.
Now let's talk about the redundancy aspect of this. So essentially there's
two ways to do redundancy. One we can have automatic redundancy which is
what most people are going to use and prefer because it's pretty hands
off or we can do manual redundancy. That's what I personally prefer
If you've seen the video I did a couple of years ago when I was at Sweetwater
talking about building a redundant rig I showed you how to use a radio S.W.
a to do this similar thing make this happen. But I did it manually.
That's what I prefer using a foot switch. But I must show you both really quickly.
So let's talking about it from the manual perspective. So if I'm doing
this manually I'm still going to set up my midi controller I'm still going
to trigger both machines. There's essentially two ways to switch manually
one if you have the interface next to you. You can see by default scene
A is green if I want to switch to the scene B computer or computer to all
I do is just press the touch panel
so when it turns from green to red it means you're now on machine b if
for on a switch back to machine a. All you have to do is press the front
panel again
. Now the second way and probably the best way to switch manually if you're
going to use this interface is to plug in a foot controller to the input
on the front panel. This is going to allow you to when you press the foot
controller it's going to switch again from a to b. And when you're ready
to switch back you can press it again to switch back to your machine
So while I prefer doing this mainly again I know most people are interested
in doing this automatically. So the best way to do this automatically is
to install the life sign plug in from a connectivity it's completely free.
And I've included the link to download it in the description of this video.
So on my machine I only need to do this on my a machine. I want to make
sure that I've installed the plugin which I have. Was the first time you've
done this go to preferences and my command comma go to file folder and
make sure you have your plug in setup set correctly whether using BSD a
new system folders or custom folders. So I have that enabled. I'm going
to go to plug ins here and the browser and go to lifecycle and I'm just
going to drop this right into my set and again I'll need to do it on this
machine not my backup machine. So the trick to making this happen is remember
we'll use this as a normal interface.
We want to skip outputs 13 and 14 but when we use this for redundancy then
we're going to use outputs 13 14 to basically track the sine wave. So here's
what we do. One I'm going to go back in and rename all those outputs because
if you remember earlier I disable them some depressing audio they're going
to output config and I want to re enable outputs 13 and 14 in here. OK.
So close that.
And then I'm going to go over to session with you just because I prefer
seeing at this site and in the audio to section. I want to change it from
master to external out. So I'm gonna select external out and then I'm going
to take this and send this to 13. Now watch the front panel of this box
you'll see the light turned from green to if I have it configured correctly
it's going to start flashing green so when it's flashing green that means
that it's receiving tone from the lifestyle plug in. And again even when
my playback in ableton is stopped it's seen in syncing the plug in.
So now I can go back to my set I've got the same set opened up I'm going
to press stop so that I go back to the first measure of my song I can press
play so that my songs start together again my light is flashing green and
then let's switch to our backup machine we're doing this automatically.
So let's see the most possible destructive way we can make this happen.
Let's just rip out our USP cable. There we go. It's gone and you see it
automatically switches to our B machine when our light turns red.
That means that we're on the B machine everything's still running
It's still going. The show can still happen. Your laptop could be on the ground.
Your USP cable could be unplugged and things are still going to work.
So again as a reminder if you're using tracks on stage you have to have
a backup plan and there's no better backup plan than the play audio.
Well now if you were to learn how to do much more than this with the play
audio connected to a mini four plus a mere four do lots of really cool
things I'd encourage you to head to from Studio Stage dot com slash play
audio twelve and they have put together a link of all the tutorials and
courses I've done on this box so that you can master this and walk into
any game confident that you have a backup plan and the show is going to
keep running. So again had to from CSA Ask.com slash play audio twelve
to check out all the courses and tutorials. Thanks so much for watching
to see you guys next week. Take care. Bye