Live Internet Radio Rig: Techbot and Left23
Tuesday, 23 February 2010 00:00
With the minimixes in full swing, and proving popular enough, we are now turning our attention to live internet performance and collaboration.
We'd be interested in meeting up with programmers, interface designers, and visual script writers from Galway over the coming months, to see what kind of project we could create with internet streaming in mind.
This is our most permanent set-up to date. It took a few months of experimenting with combinations and configurations.
What I've essential got hooked up are:
- 2 laptops (Mother and Mildred)
- the APC 40
- a Fatboy controller
- a M-audio Black Box (adds amp to any of the synths inputs)
- a JP 8000 (doubles as a midi controller for any virtual synth)
- a Novation Bass Station
- a Korg Prophecy
- a mini Korg 700 (I bought from the analog synth meister - Mal Meehan. Mal has just finished a DVD documenting JJ Perry, the legendary French synth guru).
Gone are the 2 Korgs (they both need repairs), the FW 1884, Hal the Desktop, the equalizers, the drum machines, and the Carnival Sound module.
On Mother I've got two USB/midi cables. 1 cable feeds 3 synths (daisy chained), and on the other cable, the Fatboy control feeds through to the second laptop, Mildred.
The synths all hook up to the 8 channel mixer, along with Mildred (Ubuntu, Pd, M-audio PCMCIA card). The mixer feeds in the Mother's M-audio Black Box. The Black Box then feeds the internet radio stream, and the studio amp.
Mother runs Ableton Live and the APC40. I only use 8 channels of Audio because otherwise, I'd need rotary encoders on the APC40. Another 4 channels that deal with external midi none of which require volume faders. I'm currently using one VST instrument for Mellotron sounds on one audio channel. The remaining 7 channels are drum and music loops, and a channel of full tunes and complete mixes.
During our sessions, Lisa generally controls the JP 8000, the Korg Mini, and Mildred (via the Fatboy), while I control the Bass Station, the Prophecy, and Mother (via APC40).
At present I have Mildred ready with both Resolume on windows, and Pd on Ubuntu, but we have not integrated her into our set-up as yet.
Although we use my tunes, mixes, and submixes as a starting point, what evolves from our sessions is very different to my own stuff. We usually find some points in one of the prepared pieces, and loop around them, creating textures and arpeggios with the synths.
The APC is perfect for adding cuts, scratches, melodies, samples (including all the stuff I've collected from Ubuweb), that keep the jams fresh. I'm guessing we'll have the internet radio system up and running in a few weeks time, and then we'll push for some video streaming too.
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