IIRC, Ken Restivo on this list ran linuxsampler live on a netbook with
great results.
On 11/18/2012 01:26 PM, James Stone wrote:
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" wrote:
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Louigi Verona
<louigi.verona@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:louigi.verona@xxxxxxxxx>> 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(Somewhat outdated, but conceptually accurate) details here: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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