Re: Laptop Looping

[Mark Sottilaro <sine@zerocrossing.net>]

Ah audiomulch! I forgot about that one because it didn't... Do  
something I wanted... Sync to an external source maybe? I gave up on  
working that way but audiomulch did seem promising.

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On Aug 24, 2007, at 12:27 PM, Luca Formentini <luca@unguitar.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I have been having the same issues when starting to experiment my  
> "pc rack".
> Three years ago I started to check how I could minimize my hardware  
> rack bringing as many as possible utilities in an audio card and a  
> laptop.
> The two main issues were replacing my two venerable Echoplexes and  
> my Sound Sculpture Switchblade.
> For a few months I played with many sw loopers and after some severe  
> tests I decided to go with Mobius ( not a great discovery you may  
> say ;-)).
> Anyway,  the most difficult to replicate characters of my setup was  
> the very complex signal routing I was doing with the switchblade and  
> having the chance to control the most of it via midi.
> I have been testing Bidule, Usine and Audiomulch.
> Usine was interesting but still very raw and complex with no reason,  
> Bidule was showing me the peaks you are getting and Audiomulch  
> seemed the more stable, intuitive and simple.
> It's two years I am looping with Audiomulch as a Vst host ( where  
> Mobius is hosted), powerful mixer/router/splitter and midi  
> controlled brain.
> I find the system very stable and light ( I'm on a single Centrino  
> 1.86 Gb with 1 Gb or Ram) so that I am gigging and recording with it.
>
> I really suggest you to check Audiomulch, take into consideration  
> we're waiting the 2.0 release in a few weeks/months.
>
> Don't give up !
>
> my best,
> Luca
> www.unguitar.com
>
>
> midifriedchicken@comcast.net wrote:
>
>> So the cpu spikes I was seeing on the activity viewer on my 1.5gig  
>> PB seem to be caused by Bidule. I can't seem to replicate this  
>> behavior with any other application. Live 6 with SL actually works  
>> better. The cpu spikes were creating dropouts and audio glitches  
>> that are unacceptable for live work. The flexible routing in Bidule  
>> is beyond cool, but the glitches make it unuseable, for me anyway.
>> I tried raising the audio buffer on both Bidule and/or the  
>> interface. But all that did was increase latency beyond playable  
>> levels.
>> My laptop looping experiment has failed miserably. Maybe when I can  
>> get a faster machine I'll go back.
>> I'm guessing in the Ambient genre its easier to hide the  
>> limitations because a lot of the sounds you would use are actually  
>> similer to the glitchy clicks I was getting. Plus the latency is  
>> easier to hide with all those delays. But for now, its back to the  
>> RC50 for my acoustic stuff. Live and SL are great for the  
>> electronica gig I have. I just wish Live had the routing flexibilty  
>> that Bidule has.
>>
>>
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