Alright, congrats for making it this far The hard part is seriously over. And the next few videos I'll be going over various ways of how to actually use the template we just made. Let's get started. So to run tracks, you'll need tracks. So there's a few different places where you can get the audio to run the tracks that you need. It totally depends on what song you want to do.

And if someone's already made the track or if you made the track or if your church made the track or you name it so some great options are multi tracks comm you can basically buy all this stems for a song, it looks like this and it's nice to have all the information you need on it time signature, tempo, length and even the order of like a roadmap. And then as you see their prices here it is awesome. Basically, you can get all the stems in the multitrack for 35. It looks like an a custom mix is a one mixed down So you could just get one file that you would have to set the mix of what you want. So you could like mute drums, mute base mute guitars and keep everything else and then bounce that for like $12 if you know exactly what you want, it's a great resource multi tracks comm another great resource is loop community Comm.

I haven't used this one a whole lot, but it's very similar to multi tracks, here's all their pricing and different packages and such. So depending on the track you need. These two resources are great, especially for the worship music genre. These two are the main ones I use. But if I'm not doing like a worship song, if it's like a top 40 pop song or something, I honestly will Google and try to find a backing track. For example, let's just take roar by Katy Perry backing track and I'm literally just going to Google this.

Let's see what happens. For any song that hits top 40 there's honestly people out there who just make backing tracks like and sell them online. So yeah, we got karaoke tracks, we got drum backing track, we got custom backing track, this is honestly a great option and they're usually just a few bucks. If all else fails, you can always make your own. I know it's a process, it would take a few things but but hey, you could use Ableton to make your own backing track. Now that you have Ableton and a boss template.

So let's get started with what to actually do once you get the tracks. Let's open our template. So here we are, once again, hopefully you recognize this. So if you get audio whether it's a stereo track or a bundle of stems from your download, that's basically the only two options they'll be you'll need to drag them into our set. So let's make some audio tracks to hold this audio. So if it's just a stereo track, go ahead and insert audio tracks.

I'm going to drag in a new song. Instrumental 93 BPM. This is a song I made under slot one, so it will line up with this blue. There's my track, I'm going to drag these down, I'm going to hold SHIFT and click there, drag these out of the way. I'm going to hold option This is for Mac, and duplicate this quarter note counting, and then hold option. duplicate this for four.

I'm going to put 93 let's right click put 93 BPM and four four time signature. And this should work fine. So we have a problem. This needs to be warped. There we go. It is warped to 93 BPM, and then I'm going to put the start to negative one.

So there's room for the counting. Now let's watch what happens 1234 There we go. So that's basically how you'll set up a track. If you have stems, here's how you will run it, it will be a bunch of separate files like this. Check this out. You can drag these in like this.

Oh no, they're vertical. If you hold command for Mac, boom, they line up all horizontally. So I'm going to scrunchies down so I can see them all on the same page here. Alright. So I'm going to start this make sure our BPM 93 and check this out. If you double click one of them, hold Shift, and then click the other.

It now has all eight clips of the stems selected. Let's hit warp. There we go. And here's a little bit of a pain. You have to go in each individual one now and put negative one negative one it's such a pain Come on Ableton. I wish you could do grouping them all at the same time.

But there is a way to do this in Arrangement View but I don't want to confuse you too much yet. Okay, so now all of these are set to start at measure negative one, here we go 1234 There we go, we have our stems going and as you see, we have our different channels. I'm just gonna skip through here we got vocals, we got keys, effects, drums, and it's all a separate. So here's where I can tell you the big dogs with tracks are running stems, and they'll send this out a different output per stem. So it's an honestly they'll usually do like stereo outputs. So it takes some necessary gear because obviously our computer only comes with two outputs and that's not enough.

So in this setup, we need click and guide down the output one like they are currently, which is our left side of our computer and then we will want all of this stems out channel two. So it's split in separate channels for the sound guy to work with. One little trick I found for stems is if you have to transpose them, which is a common thing, double click on one, hold shift and select the the last one in the chain. And that way, you have all eight selected and you can transpose like this. So let's go up like three steps, and hit play 234, I'm going to skip the clock. So it sounds kind of weird.

It's like a little warm up, it's not full quality. So if we put these on complex, it's gonna be a much higher quality. It's just a better algorithm, as you see here with all of these stems on complex CPU is now at like 30%. That's not good. That's pretty high. So what we need to do is rebounce these at this new transposition levels, so I'm going To select them all, click one, hold Shift, select the last one copy, which is Command C, or you can do Edit, Copy.

And then I'm going to press tab and go to Arrangement View, which you may have never seen, it's really easy, we're just going to do something really quick. So just follow along, hit this orange button, which activates this view. And then click at the start of the playhead. Paste the clips, which is Command V on Mac, or just Edit, Paste, and it shows the shortcut there. Here we have this and then right click, consolidate, boom. So this will take some time as you see it's rendering.

And it's gonna take a while because it's exporting out each individual one right now. And once this is done, we can just paste them back into the other view and keep it in beats mode, which takes much less CPU. So if you're running a lot of stems, and your computer's at like 30 40% that's Getting risky, there might be some grindy pops, click sounds that you don't want in there because of that, or you're just risk running a glitch on your computer because you're pushing your computer too hard. So this is a great workaround for that. Okay, so once these are done consolidating, you still have them all selected, you can do command x, or just edit, cut, and then we're going to hit tab to get back into our live view. I'm going to move these all down one out of the way, click here and paste them all back.

Now let's see where it's at. 1234 beautiful, now it's transposed and our computer or my computer is only like 4%. So, way efficient way to run stems. It takes a little more prep than it sucks waiting for it to consolidate but it's a smart way to run things. So now you know how to run stems, how to do it efficiently. I will see you in the next video.

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