Using A Powerbook Or Ibook Live, whos doing it, and how Options

[megahurt]

i have a pretty cool setup going now, just curious to see what other people are doing.

[megahurt]

Ok, my band is called Dark Disco Club. We track everything in Pro Tools, and some programming of synths and drums is done in Reason. I also use a few hardware synths in the studio. But taking all that gear to each live show would suck, so instead... I go into the sessions and create samples of every single note that I want to play live. Say the verse of a song is using 8 notes, and playing through 3 different sounds/synths. I just create 8 samples. Then I load those samples into the NN-XT sampler in Reason and map them to the keys that I want. Not even always the "right" keys. I'm using an Oxygen 8 controller live, so sometimes I'll just map them to the first 8 notes. Sometimes the verse on the white keys and the chorus on the black, etc. Whatever is easy for a live situation. In our live rack I have an M-Audio MobilePre USB interface, which connects to my PowerBook sitting on top of the rack. Our backing tracks play through Cubase SX, and Reason is open and going into Cubase via ReWire. I just have a separate NN-XT sampler set up in Reason for each song, so between songs all I have to do is click once on the computer to select the next sampler down in Reasons sequencer window.

any questions?