Introduction - LiveProfessor
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1. after an absence of some 35 years This has lead to a considerable amount of time looking into both hardware and software to be used in a live performance environment Hardware and software The hardware is PC based and consists of fully Intel based hardware where needed as well as an RM E HDSP 9652 audio card and a Behringer ADA8000 audio interface This provides me with 8 ins and 8 outs plenty for my requirements The operating system is Windows XP Professional SP3 32 bit and I still use this OS on all of my systems To tell you the truth and to the chagrin of others just love it It does what it is supposed to do and it does it very well indeed The other software that had been using for live performance for a time was Software Audio Console www softwareaudioconsole com and SAC is truly a great piece of software for those that are looking for a mixer in a box alternative Bob Lentini is the sole developer of SAC and is a regular on the forums answering questions and such This was until came across LiveProfessor Though will still use SAC for the purposes for which it was designed will be using and promoting LiveProfessor for what it was designed for using VST s in a live performance environment And must say that LiveProfessor does this very very well indeed often wonder if Nikolai understands just how well designed this piece of software really is But am digressing just a bit Page 22. _____________ OOO The Layout The lessons and tutorials have been written in a very procedural manner that is with everything laid out in a step by step manner There are over 100 pages of information contained in these materials This sometimes is not the shortest approach but it is the one that works for me This also allows for the lessons and tutorials to be divided up into various parts thus making it clear when one part is completed before moving on to the next This also allows for the taking the occasional breaks knowing where to return in the lessons or tutorials later after your respite Key Words At various points in a given tutorial you will come across key words such as Observation Keyboard Tip and others These keywords are provided as pointers things that you are to observe remember etc For example the purpose of the observation section is to ensure that you are truly seeing the results of a particular feature set of LiveProfessor This will help you in re enforcing a particular aspect of LiveProfessor usage Lesson versus Tutorial Lessons The purpose of the lesson section is to provide you with a period of instruction on a particular feature set of LiveProfessor that is necessary for you to understand more fully that part of the tutorial you will be engaged in Again the purpose of the lesson is to teach you some aspect of LiveProfessor usage and not so much on what you can do with that par
3. through the above procure a few times you will then try to imagine how this procedure would be performed in the actual use of LiveProfessor itself Finally when you have completed the above procedure to your satisfaction you will then launch LiveProfessor to test both your understanding and the results of the written information to see how they will actually be performed using LiveProfessor If the end result is the same then you are learning how to use the Silent Practice procedures correctly If the results are not the same you will then need to review the written information to see exactly where you went wrong Generally it will be that you do not yet understand what the written information is asking of you and therefore are not able to picture how this written information will be actualized or carried out Tip The procedure then is as follows Read Think Picture Perform Page 4 Terminology There is a separate terminology section covering all of the various terms and such Please note that some of the terms are being of my own invention and therefore these terms should not be used outside of the context for which they were intended and used only within the context of LiveProfessor and its usage Projects As you will see a project in LiveProfessor is used to save all settings related to the current project such asa show band or event A project contains information such as loaded plugins audio midi patch snap
4. LiveProfessor The Audio Processor 00 Introduction Preliminaries Welcome to the world of LiveProfessor The following are a list of various lessons and tutorials for new and intermediate users of LiveProfessor who would prefer a more procedural step by step approach to getting the most out of this truly great piece of software Assumptions These tutorials however do make some assumptions For example the type of hardware that is used in these lessons and tutorials may not be the same as what you currently are using If at all possible especially for the novice if you could use the generic integrated audio card that comes with most PC based systems this would help you through the lessons and tutorials and in particular the beginning tutorials This being said if you are unable to use the generic audio card you will need to make the necessary adjustments accordingly Windows Skills Also some assumptions will be made to the skill level of the end user especially with regards to Windows skills To be able to use LiveProfessor properly you need to be familiar with the Microsoft Windows functions especially the use of the mouse and keyboard Though you will learn about some of the lesser known of the various Windows features the more you know about Microsoft Windows and how it works will be very advantageous for you as you progress through these lessons and tutorials Observation As you will discover LiveProfessor do
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6. ecause it really is not Silent Practice is a method that you can use and should use to learn how to go about learning and using LiveProfessor without actually using the application itself For many this is not a normal procedure Instead you would launch the application testing this and trying this or that procedure until you finally come up with something that works refer to this as the repeating of something until you can do it right But is this necessarily the right procedure to 000 a L ES 0O use sincerely believe it is not believe that you should be learning as much as you can about LiveProfessor without having that application open in front of you Why sincerely believe that using LiveProfessor itself can often become a crutch and can therefore actually hinder learning rather than accelerate it The success or failure in the use of silent practice is your ability to imagine that you are in fact performing all of the functions that you would normally be doing using LiveProfessor Why should I use Silent Practice M ost if not all new material you learn is informational that is it is written down From this written information you need to somehow imagine or mental picture of just how this will work out in actual usage It is this mental picture that is important for you to remember and to understand The written information is given so that you are first able to think through the material firs
7. es not use many of the conventional keyboard shortcuts and commands that are so very common with many Windows environments One such example is the use of the Alt key as this functionality is disabled in LiveProfessor Some keyboard commands can be customized to your personal preferences however Manual Custom keyboard shortcuts page 32 Software and VST Plugins All of the software and the plugins that are used in these lessons and tutorials will be provided for you as this should help to simplify things considerably One other important point as a guitarist use LiveProfessor for digital audio only and as such do not use any MIDI gear whatsoever So if you need to learn more about the MIDI aspect of LiveProfessor you will need to go outside of these lessons and tutorials The LiveProfessor User M anual and the forums should be of assistance to you here Comprehension Comprehend simply means to grasp with the mind therefore comprehension As an instructor endeavor to first learn and then second to teach a subject so well that you could work out a particular function of something without that something actually being there have done this with guitar instruction and hope to that here as well especially when it comes to understanding and using cues and actions 00 Objective The modus operandi in providing these lesson and tutorials are that a concept or feature will never be used in practice that has not been fu
8. ios 6 acoustic gtrl wav and acoustic gtr2 wav Two wave files for use in the tutorials ns Note All of the above plugins are FreeWare Again the programs the plugins and the wave files are provided for use with these tutorials About the Lessons and the Tutorials Each lesson and tutorial will be comprised of at least three sections 1 Section 1 An introduction section About This Tutorial B This section will explain to you the purpose of the tutorial what previous experience you might require and what will be required for you to complete the tutorial 2 Section 2 The main tutorial section B This section will contain the meat and potatoes of the tutorial and will deal with a specific aspect of the LiveProfessor usage 3 Section 3 A summary section B This section will list of the various points covered in the tutorial All of these tutorials should be completed in a sequential or consecutive manner that is one after the other This is the manner in which they have been written And though these lessons and tutorials do build on each other some could be used as a stand alone For example Tutorials 1 to 3 should be done in sequence while Tutorial 4 could be done on its own Hopefully a combination of the title and the introduction to the lesson and tutorial will provide you with enough information about what you should expect and about what is required of you to begin and to complete a particular lessons or
9. lly introduced previously However there are times when words just never seem to adequately explain what a particular concept or feature is Therefore there may be times when a concept or feature of LiveProfessor will be introduced with reference to a section that will be used later to more fully explain that concept or feature Installation Also have created these lessons and tutorials using a clean install of LiveProfessor If you have installed LiveProfessor previously this will have an effect on just how these lessons and tutorials will function Manual How to go about performing a clean installation of LiveProfessor page 35 Folders It is a good idea to create a separate and distinct plugins folder for those plugins that you will only use with LiveProfessor This should be done for the Projects folder as well This will be the method used here in these tutorials About the LiveProfessor User Manual You should have a copy of the LiveProfessor User M anual available as it will be referred from time to time You should feel free to refer to it on your own as well when you feel you need to A Bit about Me M y name is Dell and am known on the forum as mr es335 M y main occupation is as a computer consultant but also teach finger style guitar and have written my own 600 page lesson manual Since 1989 have had a real passion for computers MIDI and digital audio Lately have had a real desire to get back to live playing again
10. ntinue on from there will continue with this procedure and repeat as many times as needed until am absolutely sure that the steps first work and second that these new steps will not corrupt the Tutorial 7 project file And must say that this procedure has saved my bacon more times than care to mention This same procedure has been used countless times during the development of these tutorials Whatever you do or choose to do just make sure you have some redundancy working for you do hope that this makes sense The Equipment Here is the listing of the hardware and software that you should have available Hardware 1 CPU Intel Core2Duo T6300 1 59Ghz 2 RAM 2GB DDR2 3 HD 80GB SATA 4 Audio Integrated audio SoundM ax HD Audio Software 1 Audio driver ASIO4ALL B Filename ASIO4ALL_2_10_English exe 2 LiveProfessor Free 1 0 3 000 Pag 5 00 B Filename LiveProfessor_FREE_1 0 3 exe VST s 1 Abstract Chamber f A great free VST reverb plugin from SignalDust 2 cmx844 3 Anow defunct 18 input 6 output VST mixer The only reason that am using this one over the 8x2 M ixer dll is because of the AUX sends GFader A free VST attenuator from gvst co uk This will be used in later tutorials as all that was needed was a single fader 5 Simple Wave File Player B A one shot wave file player that made using SynthEdit specifically for use with LiveProfessor From Sentinel M usic Stud
11. shots cue lists work spaces etc However as you will discover projects do not save the program options like selected audio device default patch sample rate etc You will learn what you need to know about projects as you work through the tutorials Saving Projects As a computer consultant am very much aware of what call practical redundancy In computer ese terms the word redundant simply means duplication or repetition of an element to provide a functional alternative in case of failure As you peruse the tutorials you will be asked to save various projects In my own personal study times if have a project that have been working on for a time and it is doing what it is supposed to do then you do not really want to corrupt that project in any way Sure you could back up the file to protect it from any such mishaps but I have another alternative A Working Project For example you are working in Tutorial 7 and have saved the project as Tutorial 7 You then begin to work on a particular aspect of LiveProfessor that could potentially corrupt the Tutorial 7 project file recommend that you save the current project file as Working with the idea that the working project file is where you are testing out a new feature that could potentially corrupt the original project file If this happens and it will then you re load the Tutorial 7 project file re save and over write the Working project file and co
12. t and then second to picture in your mind specifically what the written information is asking you to do If Silent Practice then is your ability to learn new skills without the aid of LiveProfessor then you must avoid using that application as this would defeat the whole purpose of your learning Silent Practice in the first place This believe me is not always an easy thing to do but do it you must Visual Acuity Silent Practice if done properly will help you in developing what refer to as a secure mental picture of the activity before you actually perform it This secure metal picture will assist you in developing the physical skills you need to perform the activity correctly refer to this mental picture as visual acuity with visual acuity simply being a tool that you can use in developing your ability to see things more clearly The principle is this The more you can understand and see a thing the more apt you are at being able to do the thing This may not hold true for everything but for much of what you will be learning with LiveProfessor in these tutorials is very true indeed Remember The more you can understand and see a thing the more apt you are at doing the thing How to Use Silent Practice You will be given information that you are first required to read Once you have read this information you will then think through specifically what the written information is asking you to do When you have gone
13. ticular function of LiveProfessor That being said the subsequent tutorial will indeed use the information gleaned from the lesson oriented tutorials As mentioned previously there are times when words do not adequately explain what a particular concept or feature is and therefore other steps will need to be taken In such cases the lesson title will contain the words Observations Only and in parenthesis to indicate that the information contained in that particular lesson is indeed for observational purposes only and therefore any steps that are provided should not be actually performed You will have the opportunity of putting into practice that particular concept or feature gleaned from the lesson in a tutorial section a bit later on The reason for the provision of the Observations Only section is as much as it is practicably possible to reduce the number of steps that will be used during the actual tutorial sections that follow Lesson versus Tutorial Tutorials The purpose of the tutorial section which will be referred to as the practical application is so that you can put into practice that which you have just learned Tutorials then will be arranged in a series of steps which you are to follow Silent Practice or How to learn a thing without the thing This might appear to be an odd title but am hoping that the principle is not also hope that you will not find this information completely absurd or irrelevant b
14. tutorial Familiarity with LiveProfessor As you become more familiar with some of the terms and design features of LiveProfessor many of the steps and the accompanying explanations that were used in the beginning lessons and tutorials will be eliminated from the latter ones One such example will be the Audio routing panel how to access this panel as well as how to open and close LiveProfessor Therefore if you happen to forget a particular aspect of LiveProfessor usage or a term used to explain a particular aspect of LiveProfessor you will need to review that particular lesson and tutorial to glean that necessary information Page 6 m 0O00 0O The Lessons and Tutorials Listing The following is a listing of the lessons and tutorials that are available to you at this time More tutorials will be added as they are completed 1 Introduction Terminology Tutorial 1 Configuring LiveProfessor Basic Configuration Tutorial 2 Creating your first Project Tutorial 3 Expanding on your first Project Tutorial 4 Backing up LiveProfessor s Configuration File Tutorial 5 Snapshots the Basics Tutorial 6 All about Cues Tutorial 7 All about Actions 10 Tutorial 8 Firing Cues and Executing Actions Cues 11 Tutorial 9 Firing Cues and Executing Actions Actions B Timing Reference Guide 12 Tutorial 10 Cues Actions Fades and Mixers Part 1 13 Tutorial 11 Cues Actions Fades and Mixers Part 2 14 utorial 12 Th
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