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Re: Native Instruments Kore 2 and Komplete



On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Sjaak <tcplugin@scarlet.be> wrote:
> So far, I have been testing with Bidule and some VST soft synth: 
>building "bidules" with e
> ffects and VST soft synth plugin's works fine. Next thing is to find out 
>what kind of Bidule
> setup is required to switch patches with program changes.

Easy one! I'll tell you right now: use Bidules Audio Switcher! It's to
be found under "Routing". I have found that the Audio Switcher also is
good for swapping preset patches that contains MIDI software
instruments (synth or sampler). The Audio Switcher listens for
incoming MIDI Program Change and activates all following modules that
is cabled to the tag associated with that Prg Ch number - all other
modules are deactivated and completely taken off the CPU load. It's
better to set up every synth patch as a separate instance in an
"effect chain" cabled to one Audio Switcher tag than to use MIDI
Program Change to swap presets in just one instance of the instrument.


> Logic 8 Studio incl. Main Stage: I really like the concept but I have 
>not tested it. My biggest concern as a keyboard player is the 
>performance/latency of modern soft synths / effects because I want to 
>monitor the processed sounds like guitar and piano on stage too. Would a 
>2GB Macbook with the FW interface, so the "old" MacBook, and a Motu or 
>RME be ok?

Might be a bit short of CPU. But that depends on how many parallel
effect chains (called "Tracks" and "Bus" by Apple) you intend to run
at the same time. I have a 2.2 MacBook and I only run one Track. No
effect bus at all. I run this pre looper and loop the MainStage output
in Mobius standalone looper (not the VST version of Mobius). This
works fine with the MainStage buffer set to 128 samples. The most
latency happens when I play an audio input (as for guitar, flute and
sax) but when playing MIDI software instruments (from an EWI MIDI
master controller) I feel no latency at all (guess that means just a
few milliseconds).

> Btw: which software loopers make a good combo with Main Stage or Bidule?

Hard to tell because it depends on if you want to run the looper as a
standalone version, if you want to run the looper as a hosted plug-in
and if you want to run the looper as the sync master or slave. For
each of these contexts there are also different workarounds etc etc.
It also depends on what looping functions you want. SooperLooper and
Mobius are the two most poular ones, but they are quite different. Try
both and see what you like! If going for an AU plug-in looper slaved
to MainStage only SooperLooper will work (if you don't want to put
Mobius VST inside the Bidule AU plug-in as your workaround. I tried
that and found that it works fine. But it's a bitch to set up because
you won't see the looper's parameters as AU parmeters inside the host
- only the Bidule AU plug-in's parameters that have names as "Parmeter
1", "Parameter 2" and vice versa)

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen - www.perboysen.com