RE: PC as sampler plus Moebius?

["Mark Sottilaro" <sine@zerocrossing.net>]

Not only would that work, but I use it that way all the time.  I take the
output of a Behringer FCB1010 (that's got a button that's crapping out now
damn it!) and run it into a Novation SL MIDI controller.  Many will 
probably
work just as well, but I love the fact that it's technology automaps itself
to my VSTs and the keyboard feels the best to me.

That and a sampler and your set.  I like Kontakt, but you could probably do
just as well with a simpler piece of software.  Some DAWs/hosts even 
include
one.

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Peters [mailto:mp@mpeters.de] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 9:07 AM
To: Loopers Delight
Subject: PC as sampler plus Moebius?

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