Re: Laptop Looping

[Luca Formentini <luca@unguitar.com>]

Hi,
I have been having the same issues when starting to experiment my "pc 
rack".
Three years ago I started to check how I could minimize my hardware rack 
bringing as many as possible utilities in an audio card and a laptop.
The two main issues were replacing my two venerable Echoplexes and my 
Sound Sculpture Switchblade.
For a few months I played with many sw loopers and after some severe 
tests I decided to go with Mobius ( not a great discovery you may say ;-)).
Anyway,  the most difficult to replicate characters of my setup was the 
very complex signal routing I was doing with the switchblade and having 
the chance to control the most of it via midi.
I have been testing Bidule, Usine and Audiomulch.
Usine was interesting but still very raw and complex with no reason, 
Bidule was showing me the peaks you are getting and Audiomulch seemed 
the more stable, intuitive and simple.
It's two years I am looping with Audiomulch as a Vst host ( where Mobius 
is hosted), powerful mixer/router/splitter and midi controlled brain.
I find the system very stable and light ( I'm on a single Centrino 1.86 
Gb with 1 Gb or Ram) so that I am gigging and recording with it.

I really suggest you to check Audiomulch, take into consideration we're 
waiting the 2.0 release in a few weeks/months.

Don't give up !

my best,
Luca
www.unguitar.com


midifriedchicken@comcast.net wrote:

> So the cpu spikes I was seeing on the activity viewer on my 1.5gig PB 
> seem to be caused by Bidule. I can't seem to replicate this behavior 
> with any other application. Live 6 with SL actually works better. The 
> cpu spikes were creating dropouts and audio glitches that are 
> unacceptable for live work. The flexible routing in Bidule is beyond 
> cool, but the glitches make it unuseable, for me anyway.
> I tried raising the audio buffer on both Bidule and/or the interface. 
> But all that did was increase latency beyond playable levels.
> My laptop looping experiment has failed miserably. Maybe when I can 
> get a faster machine I'll go back.
> I'm guessing in the Ambient genre its easier to hide the limitations 
> because a lot of the sounds you would use are actually similer to the 
> glitchy clicks I was getting. Plus the latency is easier to hide with 
> all those delays. But for now, its back to the RC50 for my acoustic 
> stuff. Live and SL are great for the electronica gig I have. I just 
> wish Live had the routing flexibilty that Bidule has.
>  
>
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