[LAU] Examples of synth/drum live performance Jack setups ?

[Barney Holmes]

Quoting Harry van Haaren <harryhaaren at gmail.com>:

> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Barney Holmes <djbarney at djbarney.org>wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
> Hey!
>
>
>> I'm from a DJ'ing background and prefer to play live and record tracks by
>> keeping everything as live as possible.
>
> Good stuff, I'm pretty interested in the same things myself.

Hey, where do you play ? Do you mix records as well ?

>
>
>> Are there examples out there of these kind of set ups ?  I need as many
>> examples as possible for encouragement if nothing else.
>
> I'm working on a piece of software Luppp, which is a live-audio-looping
> tool directed to live-performance.
> Its currently not released yet (because its not ready), but its getting
> quite far: Details on http://openavproductions.com/luppp

Looks interesting. So, of course, the little MIDI drum/percussion  
loops are just the equivalent of mixing "DJ tools" records that have  
locked grooves on them. I've even done it by blocking the tone arm  
with something so it skips back into the groove. Instant drum loop!

>
> I've recently released ArtyFX, a plugin set which is also somewhat gearted
> towards live performance. It contains on plugin "Masha", which provides teh
> Pioneer DJM style "Roll" / stutter effect: MIDI bind it for extra fun. See
> http://openavproductions.com/artyfx
>
>
>> I've found creating a drum in Yoshimi sounds *much* richer and more
>> dynamic than samples.
>
> I'm interested in how you do this, and what tips you have... any chance of
> a tutorial / blogpost / screencast?

I originally found - "How to create drum sounds in ZynAddSubFX or  
Yoshimi, Part 1" -  
http://shrp.me/docs/zynaddsubfx_yoshimi_drum_tutorial.php

At the moment I am redirecting Hydrogen MIDI events out via MIDI to  
Yoshimi to trigger the drum sound. The thing with Yoshimi is that you  
can route multiple drum/percussion sounds from the same running  
instance of Yoshimi into Jack/Ardour and record/tweak individually.

I'll put together a blog post/tutorial about this.

>
>
>> So what are you using out there ? Screen shots ?
>>
>  I'm currently looping audio with Luppp, manually drumming in a beat using
> a MIDI controller and Fabla ( http://openavproductions.com/fabla ), most
> melodic instruments are recorded using a mic / DI-box, and doing effects
> with ArtyFX.
>
> The workflow is quite nice, but needs some stream-lining and improvement.
> Also, Luppp needs to be released: the reason I'm holding off is because
> there's no use in live-performance software that *might* crash during
> performance. Hence, please sit-tight, and know I'm working on it!

Interesting. Is Lupp open source ? Even if it does crash it might be  
wise to release anyway so you get testers/bug reporters. As long as  
its clearly labelled alpha/beta with a disclaimer then you can't be  
blamed for performance glitches. But of course depends on your own  
personal development style.

>
> Cheers, -Harry
>

All the best