![]() You can get away with a lot more latency on ipads than you can with laptops, just wish I could sync it with Cubase. The ipads I have are running Cubasis 3 & IC Pro. SSD is crucial to playing live, anything else & the bass vibrations in a club will cause havoc on a laptop/mac, beleive me, been there before. The mac mini (2014 8GB 256GB SSD) runs audio tracks (bounced down to stems from my PC) in 11 Pro to keep the CPU low, it also controls my lights with the DMXIS vst & sends MIDI control messages to my RCF mixer & TC Helicon Voicelive Play. I’ve made a pretty versatile live/rehearsals rig with a mac mini + some ipads. For writing / recording I do everything on my PC & there’s no way I’d lug that around with me. It really changes the band dynamics and can make people feel worthless, and lose excitement for the band as a whole when it becomes an IT Session each rehearsal. But just because you can, doesn’t necessarily mean you should. Being primarily a covers band it has been very successful for them (pre covid of course). I asked about latency before, and they’ve never thought about it - in fact, they say playing live is better/easier as the timing is spot on due to the guide track.įor an originals band wanting to dynamically control patches via MIDI hardware - I think that’s too high risk, overly complicated, and takes the enjoyment out of playing live (personally). Sounds scary to put so much reliance on a single computer as the entire backbone of a performance… But they’ve not experienced anything drastic. The guitarist and singer are also able to do small scale pub gigs with the same setup, straight into a PA. ![]() There’s some advantages to be had, such as songs with complex string or brass sections which they couldn’t play before, and also if someone can’t make a gig they can enable a recording of that players parts to fill in. And they all have wireless earphones that pipes the guide track through to them. They sync it up via the drummer, who controls the laptop by his side. I know of a band who do just this, and they play their projects with automation which changes guitar fx, and synth patches for them as it plays through - they also have accompaniment tracks that play alongside their live playing to add an extra dimension to the sound. However for bigger live shows the laptop version of Cubase would be better I suppose. To make the setup even more compact, what about using Cubasis on Mac or Android? Would that work for what I’m looking for? I’m actually looking to do some busking as well with battery powered amps like the Roland Cube Street EX, so using Cubasis might be good for that as it’s much more compact and portable that lugging a laptop about. I just wondered if anyone here does this? Why lug around a ton of equipment when it can all be generated in a DAW? Is using a DAW live the way to go, or not? Obviously we’ll still be playing all our parts live. How would I set up monitors (or in ear monitors)? And would we still need an external mixing desk? I guess I would take the line outs from this and run it straight into the PA system. I guess I’d need an interface with enough inputs to handle every instrument going into it. I currently run Cubase on a Windows 10 laptop with a Tascam USB interface. However I need to know, can it work with a live band, is it practical? Could it be possible to run all guitars and mics through Cubase and use the vocal effects, and the guitar amp VSTs such as Amplitube? If so, is it possible to set up a MIDI foot controller to change guitar sounds during a song, or is that only possible if i use Amplitube as a standalone VST outside of Cubase? What about changing vocal effects within a song too, can that be done by a controller? I would also use the VST synths in Cubase for the keyboard parts. ![]() ![]() I’m starting a new rock band, and I’m thinking about using Cubase live as it’s great sound quality and can do so much. It’s been great for recording and song writing. So I’m a big fan of Cubase, having switched over to it last year.
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