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Re: PC as sampler plus Moebius?



I think the answer to your question is Ableton Live. Go to their site
and look at the demos and see if it suits you.



On 8/1/07, Michael Peters <mp@mpeters.de> wrote:
> I'm starting to prepare a small gig which will focus on field recordings.
> http://kleine-frf.blogspot.com
>
> Instead of just staring at my notebook with Ableton Live or something, 
>and
> playing the stored field recordings, I think I will use my midified 
>guitar
> to make it potentially more interesting, with different notes triggering
> different samples (of field recordings) ... and of course it would be 
>nice
> to loop them ... maybe I'll add a little bit guitar.
>
> So the notebook (Windoze) would have to
>
> a) take in midi signals from the guitar midi controller, and some 
>sampling
> software on the notebook would then play back the samples, and ideally
>
> b) take the output from the sampling software, plus possibly incoming 
>audio
> from the guitar, and loop both of it in Moebius which would have to be
> controlled by a midi footpedal.
>
> So two different kinds of midi input would be necessary. I have no idea 
>if
> and how this is possible. Ideas anyone? and would a
> not-too-generously-equipped notebook be able to handle all these tasks at
> all?
>
> At the moment, it seems more realistic to use the notebook just as a
> sampler, and use my EDP (hmmm ... mono only ... maybe in conjunction 
>with my
> trusty old Paradis looper?) to loop the notebook's output.
>
>
> -Michael  www.michaelpeters.de
>
>
>
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