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Re: thinking about moving from rack to laptop...advice please!



Hi Simeon,
I have been doing this step 3 years ago.

Actually I did just half step as I only replaced just 1/2 of my rack.
I replaced my two edps and my switchblade, that was the heart of my 
routing/mixing and looping setup.

So now I have a pc running the very intuitive and light-on-cpu 
Audiomulch ( I have been alpha-beta testing the 2.0 version which is 
amazing, and Mac friendly as well now) to do all my routing/mixing and 
as a vst host to load Mobius and some other plugins.
I am using an Rme FF400 audio card connected via digital and analog to 
my main precessing boxes ( Eventide H8000, TC fireworx and Boss VF1).
I am using FF400 analog outputs to play live and for monitoring and its 
adat outputs to go digitally into my recording sound card ( with loops 
on a different stereo channel pair than my main processed channels).

Midi control is shared between a Gordius BLG and a Novation control zero.
Audiomulch allows me to get crazy midi things ( just think to the 
metasurface).

Now I would like to drop a part of my rack boxes ( at least the Fireworx 
and the VF1) but I'd need to have these possibly subsituted hw effects 
through an accelerator vst engine ( like tc powercore or else).
Unfortunately there is still no external vst box that allows to load vst 
plugins bu the native ones ( Tc, Uad etc.).
The good ones are big ( receptor) or still to young (Sm pro audio).

Probaly the good step for me it would be to replace my 3 years laptop 
with a new and powerful one, but the setup I have now is running so 
smooth that I am someway afraid to change it until it would be a must do 
it.

my best,
luca



Simeon Harris ha scritto:
> ok, so my current setup is this...
>
> triaxis preamp
> tc g-force
> eventide eclipse
>
> split into
> tc d2 delay
> looperlative (with kaoss pad and lexicon mpx-1 in aux sends)
>
> all running into a rack mixer and into a mesa 20/20 poweramp and 
> marshall cabs
>
> i've been contemplating ditching all the rack fx and replacing them 
> with a mac laptop (keeping the triaxis and 20/20)
>
> my system at the moment is preset based - i have about 60 sounds 
> available with cc pedals for variation, with the g-force and eclipse 
> working in tandem
> the lp-1 is controlled by a separate midi controller and i have a 
> control surface as well (which also controls the d2 and lexicon)
>
> i'd like ot be able to kinda recreate this lot in a laptop
>
> so i'm thinking about which plugin host will work best, bearing in 
> mind that i don't really want to have to launch loads of separate 
> programs on startup and i need everything to be synced to midi clock 
> and i also need to be able to control it all via midi
>
> i'm thinking of using guitar rig for the basic fx, with extra plugins 
> (including reaktor) for more sonic manipulation....with sooperlooper 
> and augustus loop running in parallel and feeding more plugins
>
> ableton live looks like a good bet, but i'd really just be using the 
> mixer...but it's nice and stable.
>
> so my questions are - will i be able to set up a bunch of plugins on 
> one midi channel and put the loopers on other channels, so i can 
> control everything the way i am now
>
> any other plugin hosts (for audiounits) that might be worth looking 
> at? is mainstage worth considering?
>
> any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> sim
>
>
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