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 £10 from ebay woud do.

the best thing about this setup is that it fits into my bag (well everything apart from the keyboard but its a damn sight easier than carrying a 6 string bass about)

I also need to mess about with the settings of these wee boxen, going into bypass mode makes the volume a lot quieter than when the effects are on, so ill need to check them once i settle for the sound we eventually go for.
its nice to get some distortions and effects from these boxes like setting a delay on one and then another delay on the second - it makes for nice things. i would perfer, as i said, to have some sort of mixer - i only need a couple of auxes and 4 or so channels.

I have a creative zen, which I have packed with a load of my samples to load into reason and ableton to mess with, I can also use the knobs and sliders to have control over ableton.
I have a ps2 to usb convertor, but i cant find it - once I find it i can get it setup as a midi controller and plug in a guitar hero controller and use that to do some cool things =)

anyway, it should be fun. I’m going to techno it up.
who says a rock band cant play techno music =)