Re: The dangers of live laptop looping...

[mark sottilaro <marksottilaro@sbcglobal.net>]

You're better off having your show laptop NEVER hooked
to the internet for any reason AND make sure Sleep,
and any Screen saver apps are off.

Then there's the situation where you do everything
right and turning on your crashed cd player (a numark
Axis 9) crashes your computer.  True story.  Why?  No
one at Numark could say, but every once and a while it
would startup and not function correctly.  (the Numark
CDX that replaced it has no such problems)

Remember, even a tubeamp can die during a show (though
it's less likely)  It's best to just not be freaked
out by it on stage and try and laugh it off and make a
joke.

Mark

--- David Trenkel <improv@peak.org> wrote:
> On Monday, June 6, 2005, at 11:10 AM, Hartung, Kris
> wrote:
> 
> > Oh my...yes, I had a similar problem once running
> ProTools. I'm all
> > wireless at home, and so when I went to the venue
> my wirless system was
> > searching endlessly for an access
> point...apparently distracted the
> > system enough to product all sorts of errors and
> crashes. Turned the
> > wirless antenna off and everything was smooth.
> 
> Fortunately, my laptop was so cheap that it doesn't
> include wireless, I 
> have to use a pcmcia card for WiFi. Since I use an
> Indigo Echo as a 
> sound card, that fills the PCMCIA card so I have no
> cahnce of 
> accidentally running WiFI at the same time. I guess
> that's a good thing 
> :-)
> 
> >
> > ...but more importantly, you were using Mobius and
> some other VSTs. 
> > What
> > VST host were you using to run them? Did you just
> run Mobius as your
> > last VST plugin before heading off to the output
> of your soundcard or
> > audio device?
> >
> I'm using Ableton Live as a host, with one effects
> loop running 
> Ellotronix XL->Supatrigger->Pluggo Granular To Go,
> and the second 
> running Mobius->Ableton Autofilter->Ableton Ping
> Pong Delay. I have a 
> Novation UC 33 USB fader box that controls, among
> other things, the 
> level of the input, in this case my bass, sent to
> the effects loops, 
> and controlling various parameters of the plugins. I
> like this setup 
> because once a loop is captured, I can tweak with it
> so it's not so 
> static. Or, in the case of Supatrigger, the plugin
> itself can 
> algorithmically screw with the loop, even better.
> 
>