I am a worship leader of a church plant and numerous people have mentioned to me the value of multitracks and playback however I haven't yet sat down to do my research until now. Thanks for sharing this video and your experiences; it was helpful to see the interface and how you use it on a Sunday. God Bless!
We’ve loved using playback! For starting a pad during the sermon, I’ve created a macro in propresenter that sends a midi note to Playback to start the pad. We have a streamdeck that pushes that macro, but it could be done directly through propresenter as well.
So what I do for the lighting cues is I have two different types of cues. I have scene changes that cover color settings sent from propresenter. And then I have intensity and eye candy settings coming from playback. So the color changes happen from pro7 but whether they’re moving, blinking, fading, or just different intensities is all controlled from playback. I used to be a hardcore ableton user and I’ve switched wholeheartedly to playback. When it’s combined with ChartBuilder and the propresenter integrations I spend a fraction of the time doing the same amount of work that used to take me sooooooo much longer.
We switched to playback on Mac last year a day after we came from experience conference and have not gone back to ableton since then. Multitracks was there and I spoke to them about the frustration with ableton it was awesome to hear about the frustration Hillsong was going through because it was the same frustration we was having week in and week out. One big thing about ableton that was frustrating was that we have three different services one being English, Spanish and our youth, half of my week was programming ableton since the switch to playback it takes me one day to program three different services. I highly recommend playback. I only do wish that for people using Dante that we have more output options only having 8 channels kinda sucks.
Hi Stephen, I use up to 16 stereo outputs to my soundboard via Dante, which is 32 outputs total. Have you checked to see if you need to update Playback?
Can you talk more about number charts! What do you do if you want to do. Specific arrangement? Do you have a special software for making charts from scratch that you’d recommend? Thanks for what you do! Such a great resource!
I'm so torn on this. We've really liked how user friendly Playback is. But we've really missed the lack of control over individual tracks. There's also a pretty significant difference in sound quality that's been a bummer.
@@ToddHowardBethesda Yep. There's a noticeable quality difference going from Ableton to Playback. I haven't verified this, but just based on how quickly files download in Playback, I don't believe it's using wav files.
@@matthewsnyder8746 the files sound great, actually! I’ve been a big Ableton user for years and MultiTracks uses the highest conversion of sound quality in the Playback app. This goes the same for Key Changes.
We use playback for click and tracks. I mix them with the playback mixer to blend with our band. Don't use the pad feature anymore because we have a regular keyboard player who does our song transitions. Since we use Proclaim, I'm not sure there is any integration with Playback and Proclaim so we don't use it for auto slides.
I would like to see a time code track that I can send out to tech. All of our automated light cues run off of a time code. It seems a really simple addition that could be pretty universally applicable regardless of lighting software. Just a timeline I can sync my cues in the light software to.
2:02 Why don’t you like to use the iPad? I have an old MacBook Pro (2015) and a new iPad Pro (latest generation) would it be ok to use the iPad Pro for this? I just don’t have a lot of faith in my MacBook Pro 😅
I am REALLY struggling with choosing to start the track journey at my church with Prime from Loop Community or Playback from Multitracks. I know you did a comparison video 4 years ago, but I feel like both applications have evolved quite a bit since then. Would it be possible to produce an updated comparison video to aid in this decision that I feel like a lot of us face? Thanks for all you do!!
Hi Ryan, we are a small church consisting of 4-5 musicians. Currently, we are used to play without those setup (multitracks and in ears). Since i was following you and this caught up my attention, i wanted to introduce multitracks and iem to the church. My question is, can you make a step by step video on how to use and how to connect it in live setting? Currently, we have the ipad, a stage monitor for all of us and an analogue yamaha mixer. I need to know what is the best and cheap options out there in terms of wired iem. How to connect them and how to set it up from the ipad that what we will hear is only the clicks and other sounds that can produce by multitracks. Like what is really needed in terms of hardware aside from the ipad. I hope you see this comment :) God bless you more
Where in Florida have you been leading Jake? I’m a vocalist for Radiant Church in the Tampa area. I was also just in CO a few weeks for the first time. Beautiful place!
So the multitracks clicks are tonally all over the map. The beauty of something like abelton is that you can make the click sound the same song to song. Is that possible in Playback?
@@daveyjones03 This is super helpful. I have found that the tonality of the click matters to the players. And when it's not the same...the temperature rises. Good to know as we process this.
How did you tie your different mac devices together for the midi? We have a Mac mini running lightkey, a Mac book pro running ProPresenter and then I run Playback from a iPad mini on the stage. I'm not sure how to connect the 3 devices... Bluetooth? That seems unreliable. 😕 Is there a hardwire way? Or would Bluetooth be best since we are running playback from the stage?
Is there a smaller rental than 16 credits a month? I’m in a similar once in a while I lead and like the idea of using rentals and playback but don’t need all 16
hey guys! We are using playback on an iPad - sending automation to a MacBook pro for lyric on pro presenter. We use lightkey on a second MacBook pro. Can we send midi signal to 2 devices? or do we need to have lightkey and pro presenter on one device?
You can send midi to multiple devices from Playback. You just need to configure midi out in Playback and setup the audio midi app on the macs for multiple midi sessions.
Yes it does. There is a busses tab and you can set it up in there. I’m sending individual tracks using our Waves soundgrid card back to front of house so all I need is a network cable out of our Mac.
@@tonylancer7367 so much effort and money to trigger and copy other peoples pre recorded worship. Why not take some time to teach people how to play those instruments or just play a more simple set up? I’ll take a passionate worshiper with an acoustic guitar any day over all the triggering and programming any day @churchfront
@@hworshipInstrumentals You need to teach someone dedicated to learning and that takes time, effort and in other cases money. Many answers for the second statement honestly, depends on who is answering.
@@hworshipInstrumentals you can teach anyone with basic knowledge of computers how to run tracks within a few hours. Teaching someone to play said instrument from scratch? I hope you have a few years to spare to get them to barely mediocre level. You underestimate the level of commitment and time it takes to play an instrument at a professional level. Key word PROFESSIONAL.
