Re: Llive llooping, Cardiff, Wales

["whiteoakstudios" <whiteoakstudios@supanet.com>]

Hi,
I used to use audiomulch running on a desktop PC with an old, beaten up
monitor. This worked really well and It NEVER crashed ! The nice thing 
about
Kyma though is that even if the computer gives up the ghost halfway through
a piece of music Kyma will carry on, (though you'll have to reboot for the
next patch). The first time I used Kyma live was with a secondhand laptop
which I'd only just bought. I didn't have time to soak test the thing and 
as
I got up to perform I noticed there was no screen - no problem I thought -
I'll just wiggle my finger around on the mousepad and the screen will come
back on........ no joy - it had gone into some power saving mode so I was
stuck in front of the audience unable to bring it back. Since it would have
taken about 2 minutes to bring the system back from a cold boot, (2 minutes
onstage doing nothing musically is roughly equivalent to about 2 hours
normal time) I had to resort to my trusty Zoom 8080 so a lot of my ideas
didn't come off. Since then though it's been ok. I'll be honest, I'd like 
to
leave the computer at home when gigging but it's the price I have to pay 
for
THE POWER OF KYMA!!!!!!

> cool.
> have you performed before with the kyma?
> i am still at the crawling stages with mine,
> but it seems like it would be great for live
> performance.
> are you using the laptop interface or hauling
> a desktop system around?
>
>
>
> > Hi,
> > I'll be playing live in Cardiff on the last Wednesday of this month
using
> > cheap guitars, (including my Beezzarre geetarre) and African percussion
> > through a Kyma system.