<div dir="ltr">Thanks Tom<div><br></div><div>That's an interesting product and some very useful insight - but I think it lacks the UI for the sort of live arranging I want to do, and I'm not deft enough to do it with faders. I've also ruled out the Roland MC 707 and variants (not enough memory) and a few others. Frontrunner at the moment appears to be the Akai Force, but that's weirdly a both a sledgehammer to crack a nut in the synth / fx department while also apparently unable to do some very basic things like switch smoothly between songs or cope with tempo changes.</div><div><br></div><div>- Andy_R </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 12 Mar 2023 at 21:37, Tom Adam <<a href="mailto:tom.adam@thebigear.be">tom.adam@thebigear.be</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>Hi Andy,<div>I was in the exact same position a couple of years ago.</div><div>Long story short, I decided to drastically reduce the amount of HW I was going to take on stage. I knew I was not going to manage a complex set as I also needed to ’sing’ from time to time.</div><div>I got me one of these: Cymatic Audio LP16 to do multitrack playback. (This eliminated the Laptop from the equation), bought me a small euro rack modular (so I had something to do during the gig), and for the rest enjoyed the show a lot.</div><div>The nice thing with the LP16 is that it’s more than just a wav file player with multiple outputs. The downside is that you loose some flexibility…</div><div>It gave me a midi clock signal for my modular and with the multiple out’s I was able to connect some eft boxes and play these life too. </div><div><br></div><div>I’m sure whatever way you decide to go, it’s going to be great fun!</div><div><br></div><div><div>
<div>Tom Adam</div><div><a href="mailto:tom.adam@thebigear.be" target="_blank">tom.adam@thebigear.be</a></div><div><a href="http://www.thebigear.be" target="_blank">www.thebigear.be</a></div><div><br></div><br>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 12 Mar 2023, at 13:55, Andrew Robinson <<a href="mailto:andrew@bml.co.uk" target="_blank">andrew@bml.co.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr">Hello 'Barians<div><br></div><div>So, someone liked my album* enough to book me to play a short gig - 30/40 minutes, in early June. This is great, I have loads of time to rehearse, but the problem is that I've been pretty much evangelically 100% 'in the box' since as soon as that was physically possible, so I have absolutely no idea about live set-ups. Time to turn to the 'bar and to pick your brains on what I need to buy so that I'm not just pressing play on a laptop then having nothing to do for half an hour. If it's affordable to make this laptop-free, great, because then I'll be able to VJ from my MacBook. My keyboard skills are not amazing, so I mostly want to be able to sequence existing audio on the fly, and play a few simple top lines/spot samples.</div><div><br></div><div>Here's what my ideal set-up would be able to do. I have no idea if this is trivial, impossible, cheap, prohibitively expensive, and if I'm going to need 10 boxes or 1 (the fewer the better BTW). </div><div><br></div><div>Live arranging: </div><div>I want to cut my music up into sets of 16 bar stems, maybe a couple of dozen sets of 8-16 of them, and loop them. I want to be able to pick which ones to mute / unmute next time the loop point comes round before it gets there, and/or switch to a different set of stems for the next track/section of track.</div><div><br></div><div>Sequencing: <br></div><div>It would be nice to be able to trigger my TR-909 over midi and two or 3 TB-303s/clones via DIN sync, in time with the above.</div><div><br></div><div>Keyboard multi-samples: </div><div>It would be nice to be able to trigger spot samples live, via my Korg NanoKey2 or similar. </div><div>It would be nice if the sample set automatically changed with the sets of stems above, but not essential.</div><div><br></div><div>Mixing: </div><div>All the above needs to be mixed down a stereo pair. I think I'll need about 16 channels because of the 909's individual outs.</div><div><br></div><div>Would be nice to have: </div><div>Reverb/EQ/distortion at the mixdown stage</div><div>Triggering video playback in VLC in sync with the sets of stems.</div><div>Small size.</div><div>Affordable.</div><div>Possibility for one or two one of my mates to plug in an electric guitar / sing.</div><div><br></div><div>Not really needed:</div><div>Any new synth/rompler functionality</div><div>Heavy multi-effects capability</div><div><br></div><div>...so, what should I be buying?</div><div><br></div><div>- Andy_R</div><div><br></div><div>* Available at <a href="https://lxnen.bandcamp.com/album/false-flag" target="_blank">https://lxnen.bandcamp.com/album/false-flag</a></div><div> <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/1eQgu59Jc0xa772jGLFX8V" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/album/1eQgu59Jc0xa772jGLFX8V</a></div><div> and on all good streaming services, NOW!</div></div>
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