1.) if you have a mixer, you only really need a soundcard with 2 mono ins and 2 mono outs with ASIO support. there are a few good ones that fit here, but some dont have onboard midi.
suggested card: m-audio audiophile, 2 RCA mono ins, outs, midi, spdif in and out. costs under 200 secondary choice: echo mia, 2 1/4" ins, outs, no midi, no spdif, but for midi you could use an m-audio midisport (usb midi adapter) without a mixer in your setup, you may decide to go for a card with lots of inputs and outputs, like the m-audio delta 1010. 10 ins and outs, and a shitload of other inputs and outputs of various sorts, ~$800 as for your problems with live, this is probably one of two things, either your sound card latency is set too low or to the wrong driver type, or you are playing a lot of samples at once and live cant read from the drive fast enough. you have to keep in mind that Live is made to read the samples from the hard drive as they play, not load them into memory. this has the benefit of keeping ram free for DSP and fx, but it is quite demanding on the disk/media subsystem. I play out with live often and have had no real problems yet.. I have a concise live setup in terms of gear, but I for anyone looking to get serious with it, I suggest a midi knob box ala doepfers, kenton, midiman (i use the oxygen 8), evolution, frostwave, ect.. I'll try to help anyone that has questions relating to the above topics, -Joe fux ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cyborg K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <313@hyperreal.org> Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2002 9:39 PM Subject: Re: Re[2]: [313] Fwd: too much gear > I don't want this to turn into a total gear/tech thread (well I guess it > already is) but when i upgrade my soundcard I need to know what the most > cost effective card without noticable latency would be... I am a live > keyboard player and I often don't do things live that I SHOULD be in my > production, because of the latency. I would essentially be upgrading almost > specifically for this issue I don't have any need for lots of ins and outs > or such things at this point. > > Also before I use Ableton Live in public I need to stop it from hiccuping > every once in a while, I'm not sure what I need to upgrade or change about > my PC to get rid of this problem. If anyone has long technical answers to > these and doesn't want to clog up bandwidth feel free to hit me back with a > private email. > > Thank... > /dave > > > > Paul Virilio: > "Resistance is always possible! But we must engage in resistance first of > all by developing the idea of a technological culture. However, at the > present time, this idea is grossly underdeveloped. For example, we have > developed an artistic and a literary culture. Nevertheless, the ideals of > technological culture remain underdeveloped and therefore outside of popular > culture and the practical ideals of democracy. This is also why society as a > whole has no control over technological developments. And this is one of the > gravest threats to democracy in the near future. " > > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: > http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
