Re: Stylus RMX (was: Re: general question about equipment)

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

> In a message dated 8/3/2007 12:58:13 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
> perboysen@gmail.com writes:
> I'm using RMX very much in both Live and Logic. THis is on a dual 2
> GHz G5 machine with 2 GB RAM. I have never seen the issue you are
> describing. On my laptops I don't use RMX at all because it's too CPU
> demanding. My laptops are all single CPU machines, one with 1 GB RAM
> and the other with 2 GB RAM.
> Per
> The fact that you have not experienced the same issue honestly does  
> not surprise me. Most people use Stylus to record sequenced audio  
> tracks. I tend to be a wee bit overboard in the improvisational  
> sense. That's what attention deposit will do for you.


On 3 aug 2007, at 20.37, BreachinThePeace@aol.com wrote:
> How are you using it? Are you running several VSTs at once along  
> with Stylus? Recording multiple midi tracks simultaneously? Are you  
> dragging midi files from Stylus into Live's Stylus dedicated return  
> tracks per the Stylus assigned midi channels? The thing is, I have  
> never seen any of my other VSTIs do this accept for Stylus. You  
> have run Stylus (our computers that is) out of memory haven't you?


When I bought RMX I had an idea that it would be cool to use on stage  
on a laptop as part of improvised performances. But I soon found out  
it is too CPU demanding and unstable for that. I also felt bit lame  
to use those pre recorded drum sounds live so I thought I would  
either make the drumming by vocal beatboxing or other percussive  
sounds made by flute. But RMX is really good for producing recorded  
music and that's how I use it. I only use it as AU plug-in i Logic  
and in all ways; in "groove mode" as well as in "slice mode". I use  
all kinds of randomizations, both the chaos machine and the buzz. I  
also record and make my own RMX files from sessions with hand drum  
percussionists and myself playing guitar. Especially funky rhythm  
guitar is very creative to have pre-recorded as RMX files when  
working on a studio production and you want to try out those kind of  
patterns. Yes, I drag MIDI patterns ("slice" or "groove mode" type of  
MIDI sequences) from RMX onto dedicated channels in Logic. Quite  
often I use all available eight RMX channels and I bring out the  
audio as multichannel; so each drum comes up on its own channel in  
Logic's mixer. That's because I don't like the library sounds much  
and want to process them with Logic's effects to give it a new touch.  
I think RMX is a genius studio production tool. The feel you get when  
applying a slight amount of randomization to all eight drum tracks is  
something really unique.

I've never "run out of memory" because of RMX. But I must say that  
I'm not sure what you mean by that expression? Maybe that's because  
I'm using Logic, since Logic's sampler works in a way that if RAM is  
getting short it dumps some of the samples and starts streaming them  
from the hard drive instead of keeping it all in the RAM.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.boysen.se (Swedish)
www.looproom.com (international)