When the band you produce wants keys...in a live situation

[outbreak525]

One of the bands I'm producing wants keyboard in their EP, but they don't have a keyboardist. And a lot of these keyboard FX are really layered, so it's highly improbable for someone to be able to perform all of it live.

How would I go about letting them be able to have the keys and fx I produced for them in a LIVE setting?

 

[arv_foh]

Sum the keys to mono and put the click track panned to one side and the tracks panned to the other and then they can throw it on an ipod and do whatever they want with it. If their live setup includes a DAW you can bounce the keys to stereo and give them a stereo stem

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

Sum the keys to mono and put the click track panned to one side and the tracks panned to the other and then they can throw it on an ipod and do whatever they want with it. If their live setup includes a DAW you can bounce the keys to stereo and give them a stereo stem

This.

I had a band that wanted the same thing and I told them "you have to start playing to a click track live."

It never happened.

 

[LeSedna]

Are you talking about a synth as a virtual member of the band, or a full ambience and arrangement as in a backingtrack ?

 

[Keregioz]

Sum the keys to mono and put the click track panned to one side and the tracks panned to the other and then they can throw it on an ipod and do whatever they want with it.

+1

This is the simplest way and it's how we do it in my band.