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just curious to hear what other apps people are performing with. Just recently i started using Reason + Energy xt with Live through rewire in Live Performances. Anything else people using Live? Any Ideas?

I'm starting to integrate a max patch to my midi rig. Works amazingly well.

Brainspawn Forte VST live focused host. Awesome!

-Ben

I did one at a house party one time with Kontakt 2. it wasnt anything super elaborate, but that was by personal choice.

I'd imagine Reaktor or Max/MSP could get the job done pretty fucken well.

Mobius - http://www.zonemobius.com

First I used it as a VST plug-in with Live but now I'm skipping over Live completely to run only Mobius. Mobius doesn't make noise, it's a very powerful multi channel audio live looper. Almost any sound mangliing procedure you can imagine can be designed as a script and assigned to a MIDI button or computer key.

Kieran Hebden of Four Tet uses 2 or 3 laptops running 2 instances of Cool Edit Pro and a program called Audiomulch. He makes some serious noise with that stuff.

Steim's LiSa with JunXion

http://www.steim.org/steim/

MrYellow wrote:Brainspawn Forte VST live focused host. Awesome!

-Ben

Just looked at this. Looks cool. If you dont mind me asking- what are some of the features you like about this program? what type of things can you do in this that you cant do in Live?

Machinate wrote:I'm starting to integrate a max patch to my midi rig. Works amazingly well.

Hey machinate--

What is your max patch all about?

MIK

Re: Forte

Just looked at this. Looks cool. If you dont mind me asking- what are
some of the features you like about this program? what type of things can
you do in this that you cant do in Live?

It's a companion to Live. It's my VSTi host.

I like mixing synths, I'll take dirty from one VST, sub-bass from another,
tingle from another and mix them together. Then in Forte I hit snapshot
and it saves all the knob positions and the like.

I can then quickly scroll thru all my patches which are really mixes of
multiple synths and effects.

Also it's built for live use. Once you have your set of sounds all in there
you can run a stress test. It will wildly switch patches, tweak knobs, send
CC/notes, wildy doing random stuff trying to crash. After running this you
can be pretty sure there is nothing in your setup that will crash. As part of
this it has 2 other features, a crash test where u can force a crash to make
sure it behaves well and doesn't pump out loud error sounds or whatever.
Then it has a recovery exe that runs side-by-side with it which restarts it to
exactly where you left off if a crash does happen.

Lots of routing, keysplit, midi options.

-Ben

MrYellow wrote:Re: Forte

Once you have your set of sounds all in there
you can run a stress test. It will wildly switch patches, tweak knobs, send
CC/notes, wildy doing random stuff trying to crash. After running this you
can be pretty sure there is nothing in your setup that will crash.

-Ben

Do youy get audio output during this test? You could probably get some really nice/wackie sounds recording the output.

anyway, forte sounds cool. sounds kinda like Energy XT or what NI are trying to do with Kore, without the crappy NI controller. Im gonna give the demo a shot.

Yeah it outputs audio during the test..... u'd seriously want to turn your
speakers off tho, with a bunch of wild patches in there and totally random
adjustment of them, some dangerious signals could come put...... Putting
it thru a limiter and recording it then effecting it could be real cool tho yeah.

edit:

anyway, forte sounds cool. sounds kinda like Energy XT or what NI are
trying to do with Kore, without the crappy NI controller. Im gonna give the
demo a shot.

Yeah it's that kinda thing...... only 1000x better and 10x cheaper.

-Ben