well, Ive been trying to get this setup for a while – playing my ableton in a band.
so far we consist of a drummer, a bass player, two guitarists and me =)
we used to be a band before where i played bass, but i’d rather do this
anyway, we are going for a jam tomorrow – we have hired out a local rehersal studio to see if it will work or not – I think it might be a bit much with two guitarists – but i might be able to start another band after that – one with just the drummer and myself.
so, I got my laptop out, made a new user and started setting up ready for the jam.
im using my laptop with ableton live 7, reason 2.5 an m-audio raduim keyoard (it has usb, so i dont need a seperate midi interface (and I can use it for midi in and out to my laptop.
one problem that i have is the soundcard on the laptop is crap. so im using asio4all drivers, that way i dont get bad latency. the signal from the laptop is then split to dual mono – one for the main out and one for the headphone cue.
the main out is then routed into two little guitar effects pedals (a wee korg thing and a zoom thing too – just for extra messing with.)
after that it will plug into some sort of amp or pa.
I need to perfect the setup – the headphone cue isnt sent through the external effects – I have only one output on the laptop, so I cant put the external effects on a send yet – I could get a small mixer to do that though – a crappy one for
