Re: [LAU] Synths for live use

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 5:07 PM, James Stone <jamesmstone@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

> Does anyone have any suggestions? Ideally should be lightweight (capable
> of running on an old eeepc 701), lots of control possibilities (interact
> with controls via midi knobs), rock solid stable, possible to recall state
> from command line.
>
> Not all of these are essential but I would like it to start up and
> interact with my kb without too much typing on-stage!
>
> I do have a real soft spot for whysynth but the midi learn and recall of
> state seem tricky/impossible with ghostess?
>
> I would also like suggestions for organs (Beatrix?), electric pianos,
> romplers.. I am seriouslh considering a solid state keyboard or sound
> module, but it seems it should be possible with linux...
>
> Suggestions for reasonably priced hardware (2nd hand?) Options would also
> be interesting...
>
> J
>
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amSynth is lightweight enough to run on a netbook. It's not especially deep
but still has enough versatility to add to your live toolkit. I usually map
all controls to a single program on my novation controller which gives full
knob per function interaction for live use.

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Received on Wed Nov 14 12:15:01 2012