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I have the opportunity to pick up a slightly used 16GB Ipad at great price and am toying with the idea of trying to mount it on top of a MIDI keyboard and use the combo with Live 8 as my keyboard/synth/looping + clip launching and effects setup. I'm using a Launchpad alongside my Remote Sl Mk II 61 ...

What's your outboard/hardware setup and (assuming you're talking about guitar loops) what might be a typical looping situation for you?

There are a lot of times I trust my Beyerdynamic DT-880's more the monitors. I'm finding them really true in the low mids which is where all of my previous cans had ruthlessly deceived me over and over again. Mixing with closed cans... I don't know. Very hard. When the ear fatigue kicks in and you c...

Word. That is really really fast man. I actually saw Pat Metheny and Allen Holdsworth live this year and they both had really interesting synth stuff going happening on stage. Needless to say, totally different sounds though.

Yeah the signal chain is really simple and no I don't use a "real" amp anywhere. I haven't tried the Frantone but from what I've heard it sounds really deep and smooth. I do have the 2 pedals and an Electrix Filter Factory in a rack. The Filter Factory is great and there's something that's...

:twisted: Bassist here :twisted: I really dig what I can do with Live as a front end into a clean power amp and cabinet. I'm actually using Live as both my bass and keyboard rigs these days, often simultaneously too. I hear you guys on the guitar- synth lust though. Are any of you guys using pitch->...

Nice Fuzzy keys. Got any clips, thjat sounds really awesome, I am a bassist, so this really peaks my intrests! :P We haven't really seriously recorded anything yet largely due to the fact that we're not quite sure what to record at the moment and we've been pretty focused on performance. We're not ...

Very cool! I'd love to hear what some of your routing and performance strategies are. Ableton 8.2.1 Macbook Pro (heavily tricked out) Novation Remote SL MkII 61 Novation Launchpad Behringer FCB-1010 w/ UNO Fender P-Bass Custom 3-way bass cabinet (optimized for full range frequency response, low end ...

Putting a little bit of saturation after a cold sounding digital delay can sound nice. It's also fun to experiment with post-delay effects in general with Live.

I have a pretty pimped out 2.8ghz 17'' C2D with 8GB RAM, 160GB Intel X-25M G2 SSD (Primary), Samsung 470 256GB SSD (Data, Samples, etc., replaced DVD drive w/ 2nd SSD). I use it for film scoring, as a keyboard rig, for electronic music production and mixing, and mobile recording. I didn't upgrade to...

The Focusrite and M-Audio Profire preamps are better than the Presonus and Digi ones IMO.

I think Live's compressor is decent and I do agree that for the most part, it sounds pretty clean. It's definitely not even in the ballpark of the Logic compressor's power and flexibility though. Anyone who owns and uses both DAW's will definitely agree with me. Platinum mode is very clean and respo...

I'm using the Intel X-25M G2 for my system drive on my 17'' 2.8 C2D Macbook Pro. The day I popped it in was basically like getting a new laptop. You can look at statistics, benchmarks, and do your homework (which I did of course), but 5-6x faster in the world of computers is a meaningless number unt...

Big high five for that "Bent Cosmos" track with Circuit Bent. Love the "conversational" groove, drum sounds, little details on the fills, and textural diversity. Even some of my electronic-music-is-just-a-bunch-of-computers-processing-data-why-don't-you-learn-a-real-instrument-an...

Spectrasonics ones are a little more tricky. You actually have to enable each control separately in the plug-in to expose it to the host before you can either map it to automap or device configuration for blue hand control. Out of curiosity, do you personally use Automap with Omnisphere and/or Tril...