[LAU] Synths for live use

[James Stone]

Wow! Fantastic stuff!

In my experience bristol seems quieter than other synths but perhaps I'm
configuring it wrongly?

Very excited about the GPL beatrix!

Any thoughts on running linuxsampler live on a netbook? Would this be
pushing things too hard?
On Nov 18, 2012 9:43 PM, "Luke Peterson" <luke.peterson at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Louigi Verona <louigi.verona at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Fluid Synth is VERY difficult to work with in a live situation, even as
>> QSynth. I tried it many times and I don't advice it.
>>
>
> For years, I regularly used Fluidsynth+qsynth in parallel with Bristol,
> live at shows running off a netbook with an Atom chipset. Dell Latitude
> 2100.
>
> (Somewhat outdated, but conceptually accurate) details here:
> http://lukepeterson.com/2010/02/07/arriving-midi-keyboard-live-rig/
>
> The trick was to set Bristol up as my hammond emulator on midi channels 1
> and 2, then various patches including a Rhodes, a D6, a piano, a few other
> things up on channels 3+ ... I set up Bristol to listen to the knobs and
> sliders on my keyboard (M-Audio Axiom 61), and then could change patches by
> flipping the global channel for that keyboard up and down. It took me half
> a dozen shows to work out all the bugs in performance -- for instance, I'd
> run into trouble every now and then if I'd change channels while holding a
> key.
>
> The most overloaded this rig ever got was a show where I had my X-Box
> keytar running through a M-Audio MidAir wireless midi unit, fixed to
> channel 1 on a high-distortion D6 patch, my Axiom 61 as a multichannel
> workhorse playing any patch I wanted with the knobs and sliders set to the
> hammond, and my old Yamaha P80 which was a pain in the ass to change the
> channel on set to channel 4 for my piano patch. So 3 controllers in total.
>
> Our encore was Baba O'Riley, for which I created a QArp arpeggio on the D6
> that mimicked Pete Townshend's Lowrey autoarpeggio intro. After our set, I
> ran a shell script to kick off QArp to control channel 1, and then started
> the song from the crowd in front of the stage on my wireless keytar. It
> worked great until I made my way back to stage and tried to hold the
> arpeggio on the keytar while also then playing the first 3 piano chords on
> the P80. The five-fingered piano chord along with the arpeggiating D6
> overloaded the memory on my little netbook and sent a ton of nasty
> artifacts through the venue's PA, and then I had to kill a bunch of
> processes and re-load the rig. But it was pretty f--ing cool right to that
> point. The sound tech and the rest of the band covered as best they could
> and we did a fairly exciting trainwreck of an encore, which we medleyed
> into something else. God bless beer and 2am crowds!
>
> Anyway, I guess my point is, if you are just looking to play a fixed
> fewer-than-16 patches and don't need to change any of their settings
> mid-show, QSynth should be a fine solution. Pre-load each onto its own
> channel and just change the channel on your controller to switch from patch
> to patch.
>
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