 Playing Soft Synths Live, Is it do-able? |
 Wed 29 Oct 2003, 02:22
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I haven't been able to find a clear-cut answer to my question anywhere, so I'm hoping you can help me out. How feasible is it to play a soft synth live with current technology? Do I need more than a laptop, controller, and sound card? From what I gather, I need some sort of virtual instrument host program or sequencer such as Cubase or Digital Performer. Any help would be greatly appreciated--thanks!
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Wed 29 Oct 2003, 10:40
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 7 Joined: 29-Oct 03 From: Sydney - AU Member No.: 27,755 |
That depends
 If you're only running a single soft-synth (such as Absynth, Reason, Kontakt, or Reaktor to name a few) in standalone mode then all you need is a controller and your laptop. If, on the other hand, you want to run several soft-synths, then you'd be better off going with sx or vstack. This is because some soft-synths, in standalone mode, will assume they're the only program talking to that MIDI interface. Cheers, CR. PS. Reason, especially, is just fine live! Ditto for Reaktor. This post has been edited by lepetitmartien: Thu 30 Oct 2003, 00:53 |
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glenwood Playing Soft Synths Live Wed 29 Oct 2003, 02:22
glenwood Thanks for your reply,
Is latency a big concern? ... Wed 29 Oct 2003, 22:16 captainrandom Depends on the soft-synth (and the drivers for you... Wed 29 Oct 2003, 23:55
lepetitmartien However interesting they may be, as this is a mac ... Thu 30 Oct 2003, 01:04 |
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