Posted: 11 Nov 2011, 12:43
I've been fiddling around with Usine for several years now, but it wasn't until last week that I dragged the laptop onto a stage. I'm a true has-been; the concert was a reunion of my old band Holy Toy which debuted nearly 30 years ago, and the occasion was the release party for a book on the "post punk era" 1980-85 in Norway.
[shameless bragging]
By a strange coincident, it was also announced just the week before that our first LP Warszawa was voted no 20 in a poll amongst 100 Norwegian musicians of the best Norwegian records of all times. The Top 10 was announced today.
[/shameless bragging]
I used Usine with one big workspace with one conductor snapshot per song. I had created my own rhythm box to replace the (now disappeared) DR-55 Dr Rhythm we used way back when and to add extra percussion similar to what we added in studio. I also used samplers as a replacement for the tape machine(s) our sound guy used to operate. Usine also acted as a MIDI control station between my FC300 and Axiom 49 controllers, to my guitar rack (w/pre-amp, switcher and TC fireworx), and Reason for some extra samples and some synth stuff.
I must admit that I was nervous that the whole setup would go haywire, but no!
If anyone's curious, some videos with dubious sound quality and balance has been put up on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4mVcAZt9ds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxH6oj0fOtE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB55D29khQg
(Well, ok, some quite dubious playing as well... We had problems with monitoring and the placement of the damn video screen made communication across the stage pretty bad.)
[shameless bragging]
By a strange coincident, it was also announced just the week before that our first LP Warszawa was voted no 20 in a poll amongst 100 Norwegian musicians of the best Norwegian records of all times. The Top 10 was announced today.
[/shameless bragging]
I used Usine with one big workspace with one conductor snapshot per song. I had created my own rhythm box to replace the (now disappeared) DR-55 Dr Rhythm we used way back when and to add extra percussion similar to what we added in studio. I also used samplers as a replacement for the tape machine(s) our sound guy used to operate. Usine also acted as a MIDI control station between my FC300 and Axiom 49 controllers, to my guitar rack (w/pre-amp, switcher and TC fireworx), and Reason for some extra samples and some synth stuff.
I must admit that I was nervous that the whole setup would go haywire, but no!
If anyone's curious, some videos with dubious sound quality and balance has been put up on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4mVcAZt9ds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxH6oj0fOtE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB55D29khQg
(Well, ok, some quite dubious playing as well... We had problems with monitoring and the placement of the damn video screen made communication across the stage pretty bad.)
