Ok so Ive got about 3 weeks before my band heads out on tour and Ive been really struggling to get together what Ive wanted.
Basically the band runs a click track for the drummer and to keep the set flowing and to avoid awkward stops its one long 30 minute track, the clicks stop and there is a gap then start again.
In the gaps we are putting music, mainly ambience just to make it more of a show.
Ok so all of this is easy just pan each one right and left blah blah blah, well weve got this part down to a science where it gets harder is I wanted to run 2 midi tracks at the same time, one sending program changes to an Alesis Midiverb and therefore processing the singers vocals differently and another being converted into DMX commands so that we can program out lights.
Well this means I have to use a laptop and Ive tried a few older ones weve had handy running audacity (most basic stable program I could find) and I just cant run a 30min wav click track in it without it stuttering and then throwing everything else out of time.
So Im wondering if there is something like a programmable midi sequencer that could be programmed to trigger say a drum machine for the click and samples for the backing tracks and chuck out the program changes for the vocal fx and lights.
Basically any other ideas on how to get this all working would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Basically the band runs a click track for the drummer and to keep the set flowing and to avoid awkward stops its one long 30 minute track, the clicks stop and there is a gap then start again.
In the gaps we are putting music, mainly ambience just to make it more of a show.
Ok so all of this is easy just pan each one right and left blah blah blah, well weve got this part down to a science where it gets harder is I wanted to run 2 midi tracks at the same time, one sending program changes to an Alesis Midiverb and therefore processing the singers vocals differently and another being converted into DMX commands so that we can program out lights.
Well this means I have to use a laptop and Ive tried a few older ones weve had handy running audacity (most basic stable program I could find) and I just cant run a 30min wav click track in it without it stuttering and then throwing everything else out of time.
So Im wondering if there is something like a programmable midi sequencer that could be programmed to trigger say a drum machine for the click and samples for the backing tracks and chuck out the program changes for the vocal fx and lights.
Basically any other ideas on how to get this all working would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
