Recent content by rattyman

You could try Ableton LIVE, it has a comprehensive library of effects plugins and is designed with live playing as opposed to recording in mind.

There was a great thread on this a while ago: http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=665312 plenty of info on doing this sort of thing there. Cheers.

Thanks Wolffman. Check out our soundcloud for regular uploads of our live sets: http://soundcloud.com/men-imitating-machines

There are probably better or different options out there but we chose the VB to give it a go and seems to work fine. My bass player has a favourite bass that he likes to play too (musicman stingray) so using a MIDI pickup suits us. I was using plugins through logic before i bought Ableton, but...

We mostly use the VB-99 for its MIDI conversion, but we also us some of the inbuilt synthesis as it actually has some pretty good sounds. Yes we have a lot of experience using Massive, and FM8 also.

Cheers for the links. We have actually got most of our gear imported from the US anyway, its too expensive here. We both run Ableton on seperate laptops. The program essentially acts as a mixer that supports the VST synths and samplers (mostly drumrack) that we use when playing live. Each...

Yeah they would accomplish the same tasks and probably better too, just have not got around to getting one yet. Just a matter of cash really, its a pretty expensive setup!

Yeah its the VB-99. It will only accept the pickup that comes with the unit, i dont think you can use anything else as it has a custom plug. Happy to answer your questions:) It was a headache for us figuring out how to do this because no-body else was so fire away.

Hi mate, Thanks for the feedback:) In the second video i am running the mic through Abletons native vocoder plugin. I think the vocoder was only introduced from Ableton 8 onwards. It works pretty well. The MIDI pickup we use comes with the Roland V-bass. The foot controller we use is just...

Thanks for your kind words!

Cheers!! Yeah we had a bit of fun making the clips if you cant guess:)

We use a Roland V-bass which has a thru to midi feature. Its not that easy to play though. You have to be very precise.

edit: Lurker79, your spot on, thats what we are doing!

Hey folks, I am from a live dubstep band from Melbourne Australia called Men Imitating Machines. We use MIDI bass, MIDI drums, two laptops and Ableton. Clips below (audio recorded live) and happy to answer all your questions! Cheers, Matty from Men Imitating Machines Search...