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Re: mac laptop set-up



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 *
>>
>>
>
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> Jeff Blanding
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> http://www.modaldub.net
>
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> mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it 
> tolls for thee."
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>
>

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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