From the course: Performing with Ableton Live: On Stage with St. Vincent

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Backup system - Ableton Live Tutorial

From the course: Performing with Ableton Live: On Stage with St. Vincent

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Backup system

One thing about technology is that it's a great seducer. It leads you to think that anything is possible, and it will always happen exactly the way you want. That is a, a bit of a false promise, I would say. So it's good to take technology with a grain of salt. We have a secondary system here, another ultra light, another MacBook Pro running identical software. And it's connected to all the same controllers. So, I have the same MIDI controller system going into the, into both computers, although not at the same time. And I'm able to switch from one to the other by pushing a single button. Why would we want to do this? Our job I think is to do our absolute best to guarantee that nothing ever goes wrong. But at the same we have to be ready for things to go wrong. A backup system is one way to do that. A show like this, you really want everything to run as smoothly as possible and for any eventually to be covered. And, the way we accomplish it, in this case, is by having this kind of…

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