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Re: Using a laptop onstage: Dominic Frasca's take is misguided
Yes, you are correct. I left out that because I mentioned it in an
earlier post. Don't want to clogg down the list too much ;-)
per
On 5 jan 2006, at 23.28, Travis Hartnett wrote:
> But if I read this correctly, your instrument itself was already
> processed prior to the signal entering the laptop? That is, you've
> got some sort of preamp/effects setup outside of the computer?
>
> TravisH
>
> On 1/5/06, Per Boysen <per@boysen.se> wrote:
>>> Travis Hartnett wrote:
>>>> If anyone out
>>>> there is doing all their signal processing and looping on a laptop,
>>>> I'd love to hear the specs of what they're using.
>>
>>
>>
>> An example of CPU efficiency:
>>
>> I have been running almost identical Ableton Live looping set-ups on
>> a powerbook and a centrino PC laptop. The CPU meter of Live does show
>> 70-90% on the powerbook and 30-40% on the pc. Below are
>> specifications.
>>
>> Powerbook 15". 1,25 MHz, 2G ram.
>> Zepto "Centrino" laptop. Intel P M 755 2.0 GHz Dothan. 1 GB ram.
>>
>> On the pc the looping was done on four tracks, in four parallel loops
>> of Möbius VST plug-in (distributing through four Ableton channels).
>> On the Mac looping were done on two tracks, in two parallel loops of
>> Augustus Loop. Except that both environments had the same post
>> treatment plug-ins applied as send/return loops: 2 Pluggo effects, 1
>> OhmBoyz delay, Abletons' Reverb. Two or three effect plug-ins were
>> also applied directly on the tracks hosting loops.
>>
>> To save CPU, no software compressor was used, but both laptop outputs
>> were run through a hardware master stereo compressor before going
>> into the PA.