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instead of "lig rig" there i meant "live rig", sorry On Monday, February 25, 2002, at 11:36 PM, Jeff Blanding wrote: > i've had trouble with Phrazer too actually... > > what i really need help with though is a set-up or arrangement for > actually running a lig rig on the laptop, and how to "virtually wire" > it in the software. for example, say you wanted to use Logic Audio for > MIDI sequencing, and triggering samples, etc., and you wanted to be > able to stop and start various bits at will. also, you wanted to send > the audio output through effects (reverb, delay, etc.) and be able to > modify the parameters of those easily live for improv purposes. also, > you would have your sound sources of, aside from a few short samples, > some soft synths like Absynth and maybe a virtual percussion instrument > (perhaps VST). how can you best control all this for the live show? > ReWire? do it all through LogicAudio? mb use Cubase, since Logic doesnt > have much VST support? > > -j > > > > > On Monday, February 25, 2002, at 07:46 PM, just john wrote: > >>> hello, >>> >>> i am thinking of getting an Apple iBook for live use as an instrument >>> (softsynth, sampler, looper/fx). i would like to focus as much as >>> possible on the iBook and have no external gear, since i am thinking >>> of >>> traveling a lot with it. has anyone on the list done looping or live >>> electronic music with their mac laptop? what was the set-up, and do >>> you >>> have any tips or feedback from the experience? i have lots of >>> questions >>> about various things, such as how to route the signal internally and >>> be >>> able to go through various effects, use different apps at once (VST >>> instruments, etc.), and mix it all into a pair of stereo outs. i've >>> been >>> playing with apps like Absynth, ReCycle, Phrazer, >>> Cubase/Logic/ProTools, >>> Reaktor, Koblo, various VST instruments and effects... i basically >>> want >>> to be able to route whatever sampler or softsynth i am playing through >>> effects and also do some triggering and sequencing among the different >>> apps. i mostly do live improv so i prefer triggering different samples >>> manually to sequencing the whole thing, but i would be curious about >>> sequencing also. >>> >>> anwyay, any relevant advice will be appreciated. >>> >>> thanks, >>> jeff >> >> Well, cripes, you've already mentioned most of my bag of tricks, except >> Digital Perrformer and Max/MSP. But I have those two on two different >> laptops. On this one, I have DP and Bitheadz' Unity. I've gotten >> Phrazer >> to do one or two nice things, tho it is a DEEPLY flawed product. I'm >> looking forward to radiaL. Native Instruments has the freeware >> Forumsynth, >> and jhno's Looper is dandy, even with the play-only version of Max/MSP. >> >> And for fun, search out Vocalwriter. >> --- >> * just-john@just-john.com http://just-john.com/cn/rfe.shtml * >> >> > > ----- > Jeff Blanding > jeff@modaldub.net > http://www.modaldub.net > > "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the > continent, a part of the main. > If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if > a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine > own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in > mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it > tolls for thee." > - John Donne > > ----- Jeff Blanding jeff@modaldub.net http://www.modaldub.net "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." - John Donne