I am a musical director needing to figure out a way to use a soft sampler as part of my reduced orchestra pit on a national tour this fall. (After using keyboards and hard samplers for years, I would like to take advantage of the large sample libraries that have come out in recent years. For this project, I am especially needing great brass sounds, and would like to use the ProjectSAM Brass and True Strike percussion libraries.)
I need a sampler that can load various VST's and virtual instruments, be able to layer and map the sounds across a keyboard, and save these setups of these layers and maps and organize them so that I can advance through the list of presets during live performance. (I would likely be able to make setup last for an entire song, so the switch to the next setup would not need to be instant.) I am desgning the setup from scratch, so I don't have any limitations (except price, at some point!) My questions:
1. Is DP/Mach Five capable of the mapping and layering of sounds I am needing?
2. How quickly can you change between setups?
3. What computer setup and amount of memory would I need to run this type of setup?
4. If I am needing to sequence songs with these sounds, can that be done with DP being on the same computer as Mach 5 without bogging down the computer?
5. If this is not the right program for this type of live use, what would you recommend? How does Kontakt compare?
I am new to this whole area of soft-samplers, so any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Using DP/Mach 5 live
Moderator: James Steele
Motu Live!
I run Mach 5 within Forte Ensemble as a VST plugin. You can run multiple VST instruments as well or as many instances of MOTU as you need. Rock solid I might add. You can also run VST effects and route outputs to whatever outputs you assign. Check it out at Brainspawn. com. Free demo.
Cheers! Stan the Man
Cheers! Stan the Man
I run Mach 5 in a V-Rack which me and my drummers trigs, and I'm running on top of that VI synths ( MX4 , Korg , Pro53 ) that I change via chunks.
Very stable.
Depending on the horsepower available , you should be able to do what you want with Mach5 , the expert mode is very usefull to change "suits" of banks on the fly.
If it's an orchestral setup , and space is not an issue , I would greatly suggest to go with a tower , you'll have more RAM and power available.
One other suggestion would be to put your library on a FW800 disk like those:http://www.wiebetech.com/products/traydock.php
Also check the FW bus of the CPU. If you use a laptop the FW bus will shares the same bandwidth between your disk and you audio interface , but if you go with a desktop , you could put a PCI card for your audio interface and leave the FW bandwidth for your Sample library disk.
Very stable.
Depending on the horsepower available , you should be able to do what you want with Mach5 , the expert mode is very usefull to change "suits" of banks on the fly.
If it's an orchestral setup , and space is not an issue , I would greatly suggest to go with a tower , you'll have more RAM and power available.
One other suggestion would be to put your library on a FW800 disk like those:http://www.wiebetech.com/products/traydock.php
Also check the FW bus of the CPU. If you use a laptop the FW bus will shares the same bandwidth between your disk and you audio interface , but if you go with a desktop , you could put a PCI card for your audio interface and leave the FW bandwidth for your Sample library disk.