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Originally Posted by elder rookie and whatever you end up doing make sure you have a really sturdy road case for it (but i'm sure you already thought of that) |
I'm ahead of you on that one
Thanks for the post genericman
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Originally Posted by genericperson Gigastudio does NOT play well with other toys |
That I did not know. Thanks for the early warning! How about Kontakt (it would be a pain to translate all the samples but as I already have that it would save buying another soft- or hardware sampler.
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Originally Posted by genericperson You want redundancies in a live situation |
I will be using 2 keyboards - the upper a stage piano so worst case I can go to that. It's not club work - it's musical theatre (well, panto... so musical theatre with screaming kids shouting "he's behind you!" at every opportunity!), so we could get by with the whole show on a piano/strings patch worst case.
I'm not in the position to be able to afford 2 computers - even small format ones - at the moment. The ideal (multiple computers) will be realised after I've been paid for a few more gigs...
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Originally Posted by genericperson the soundcard must get along with the mainboards chipset |
Does that also apply to FW interfaces?
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Originally Posted by genericperson also, when you try to buy at the absolute top of the speed range, the price spikes way high. don't freak out thinking you need the ultimate latest processor |
I've seen the price go up vs GHz exponentially...! I was looking at the PIV 3.2GHz. No convlution reverbs here - just maybe a touch of waves reverb and some light compression :-)
No I'm not going to aim for 255 voices simultaneously. As this is "theatre", the show is pretty set (all the main numbers certainly are) in rehearsals, so I will probably mixdown all the "sequences" to stereo and play them back (through the sampler or using an audio sequencer setup I haven't quite figured out yet! :-D ). I'm planning on using either V-Stack + ShowControlPro or Brainspawn Forte Ensemble - again I'm trying to find out more about these before I decide (separate thread)
Thanks again for the posts. It has all been taken on board, although unfortunately I cannot go down the multiple PC route at the moment (for this gig anyway) - as much as I would love to. However, I'm working on a big tour and the producer would like to go down the computer route for that, so that will be a big system (it's amazing, they've been using 80's synths since 1989 and now want to go to PCs.... I'm very much of the opinion that is overspecified and have reccommended K2661s!!).
I guess that piano/strings patch will have to be only a button press away!!
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