14 Feb
2010
14 Feb
'10
3:35 p.m.
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 11:59:02AM -0600, Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote:
On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Arnold Krille wrote:
First of all, FOH techs already laugh at me when I present them with two male XLR jacks
going to TLS dongles into a M-Audio FastTrack and an EEEpc. At least it saves them from
having to go fish out a DI box.
The sound in their voices is always really interesting when they're calling sound
checks: they get through the drumset, guitars, basses, B3 (if present), and then they say,
"OK, um, laptop, I guess?". It's a mixture of respect, disdain, amusement,
and confusion.
If (probably when) I use a phone/palmtop/gameconsole platform as a synth, it'll be one
with USB host capability and the sound will be coming out of the FastTrack, not a
1/8" stereo jack. And that interface will not be used for actual phone calls.
In my occasional nerdy dreaming modes, I thought of hacking up one of those large
LED-matrix scrolling displays to a Linux-based phone, and giving out the number onstage so
the audience can text us while we're playing. Or face the LED towards the audience so
they can blast out random texts to the whole audience.
As for the ARM's/Droids/Pandoras/etc, it looks like technology is not quite ready yet,
but it's getting there. Recompiling audio apps with funky -m flags is no problem, but
rewriting for example LADSPA plugins to add ASM to use the FPU sounds like more work than
it'd be worth.
Still, I'd estimate by next year it'll be all squared away.
-ken
And a matter of stopping the foh-tech from
killing himself laughing when you
plug in you request a DI-box and connect your stereo-mini-jack-to-two-mono-
jacks adaptor to connect your phone for making music.
Actually, I've seen The David Crowder*Band do this as a part
of their show. Several musicians had their voices going
through an iPhone with an auto-tune processor in the phone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rKxO9q33YU
They also use it in the song 'Dance.' Sure, they could have
just done it with a foot-switch processor or had the FOH
engineer use a rack effect -- but what's the phun in that?