i have one set of abstractions that i use for all my performance.. usually i build the patch out of those abstractions before the performance based on how i want to play that specific show. to account for different songs needing different things i usually choose to simplify/interperate the song to match the patch that i'm using. i don't worry too much about having the performance sounds like the recording, as long as it's interesting and engaging then it doesn't matter if this sound is a little different than that sound....
i do use pd exclusively for performance because of the flexibility ... there is the occasional millisecond dropout, but that's just the nature of electronic music performance right now. i find on os x using the -rt flag helps to reduce dropouts due to gui activity.
matt.
On 3-Nov-03, at 5:18 PM, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Hallo, Luke Yelavich hat gesagt: // Luke Yelavich wrote:
At 06:55 AM 4/11/2003, Frank Barknecht wrote:
I'd be interested in how the live performers here handle this. What do you do when you have to play for several hours? Do you just use one large patch with loads of abstractions that get [switch]ed on and off?
I may be trying to do the same thing soon, so if anybody is interested, I will post the patch.
Was this patch used for several pieces in those 20 minutes? At home I tend to use several patches, more like one patch per track. But this is hard to get on stage (not that I used Pd on stage yet), because you have to deal with loading times and possibly interruptions. So I wonder, if people tend to build special performance patches, how they cope with tracks that need highly different material.
ciao
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