Help! I need a live rig

[Andrew Robinson]

Thanks Tom

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.

- Andy_R

On Sun, 12 Mar 2023 at 21:37, Tom Adam <tom.adam at thebigear.be> wrote:

> Hi Andy,
> I was in the exact same position a couple of years ago.
> 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.
> 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.
> 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…
> 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.
>
> I’m sure whatever way you decide to go, it’s going to be great fun!
>
> Tom Adam
> tom.adam at thebigear.be
> www.thebigear.be
>
>
>
> On 12 Mar 2023, at 13:55, Andrew Robinson <andrew at bml.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hello 'Barians
>
> 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.
>
> 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).
>
> Live arranging:
> 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.
>
> Sequencing:
> 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.
>
> Keyboard multi-samples:
> It would be nice to be able to trigger spot samples live, via my Korg
> NanoKey2 or similar.
> It would be nice if the sample set automatically changed with the sets of
> stems above, but not essential.
>
> Mixing:
> 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.
>
> Would be nice to have:
> Reverb/EQ/distortion at the mixdown stage
> Triggering video playback in VLC in sync with the sets of stems.
> Small size.
> Affordable.
> Possibility for one or two one of my mates to plug in an electric guitar /
> sing.
>
> Not really needed:
> Any new synth/rompler functionality
> Heavy multi-effects capability
>
> ...so, what should I be buying?
>
> - Andy_R
>
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