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ableton live is really great for this... you can create a project for a song and have a click track in it that you only send to yourself. you can separate all the samples you need to trigger and very easily assign a device or midi note to each of them. the thing that's great is all you have to do is hit the trigger sometime in the bar before you want the sample to begin and Live will automatically quantize the sample to come in on the downbeat (or whichever beat you prefer...you can edit the sample length right in live in order to give it some extra space on the front for instant). Also, if for whatever reason something goes haywire, you just hit the trigger again and it will kill that sample without killing the song - the click will still soldier on and as long as everyone is playing together, you can hit the next sample to come right in at the part you want it to. i learned this by watching a buddy of mine who sets this up for BIG touring acts - i couldnt believe how simple it was! One of the bands is a power trio and the drummer is opening the song files while bass player is setting off all the samples with a midi foot controller. Another band was using the keyboard player who had an octave on his key controller devoted to triggering - middle C for the pre-chorus sample, D for the chorus etc etc.
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