Re: PC as sampler plus Moebius?

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

On 1 aug 2007, at 18.07, Michael Peters wrote:

> Instead of just staring at my notebook with Ableton Live or  
> something, and
> playing the stored field recordings, I think I will use my midified  
> guitar
> to make it potentially more interesting, with different notes  
> triggering
> different samples (of field recordings) ... and of course it would  
> be nice
> to loop them ... maybe I'll add a little bit guitar.

Cool! That's exactly what I did in a live project 1990. I had a  
hardware sampler and sent each guitar string on over a dedicated MIDI  
channel. Then I had different field recordings saved as stereo files  
and mapped to different frets on the strings. I had a lot of floppy  
discs with different sample mappings setups. All discs looked the  
same and my idea was to pick one and start playing guitar without  
actually knowing at exactly witch fret the different samples wold be  
triggered. It worked for a while but I couldn't help learning it in  
detail and then the surprise factor was gone ;-)


> a) take in midi signals from the guitar midi controller, and some  
> sampling
> software on the notebook would then play back the samples, and ideally
>
> b) take the output from the sampling software, plus possibly  
> incoming audio
> from the guitar, and loop both of it in Moebius which would have to be
> controlled by a midi footpedal.

Since you say "PC" I guess your laptop runs Windows and then you can  
run Mobius. An easy solution would be to use Ableton Live, because it  
comes with a built-in rudimentary but good enough (for your purpose)  
sampler. So if you put the field recordings in that sampler and map  
them to MIDI channels and note numbers as you find convenient you can  
use the track aux send knob to send signal form that into Mobius VST  
on a parallel track. It will take you some three days to set up to  
perfection, I guess.

> At the moment, it seems more realistic to use the notebook just as a
> sampler, and use my EDP (hmmm ... mono only ... maybe in  
> conjunction with my
> trusty old Paradis looper?) to loop the notebook's output.

If you think it is more realistic I'm sure it really is more  
realistic! ;-)

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.boysen.se (Swedish)
www.looproom.com (international)