My Name ist Joerg, 48 years from Germany. Im playing keyboard and sing some songs in a hobby-Band(Out of Tunes), where we use Bandhelper for our setlist. My journey in piano started 7-8 years ago, i started with an Roland FP30, then bought a real piano and after i got into an band (a funny story) i thought, i should buy me a more band-ready keyboard and decided me for an Yamaha CK88. Im happy with it, but as small tech-nerd that i am, i always played around with virtual instruments. The result is, that i own a the NI Komplet Standard 13 and the A61 Midikeyboard from NI, which i not use very often. I bought a the version 5.5 of Studio One, cause i thought the Show Page feature would be perfect fpr performing live.
As many of you could imagine, there is only little time when u have 3 children, a wife and a job I made some progress, but i then i got to know Gigperformer and was very exited to try it out.(Great Thanks to @Toeti for his amazing German Youtube-Channel) On Black Friday i managed to buy me the Arturia V Collection X.
But now i have to start somewhere, to get this Equipment going in to liveperformance. Because of the great Community here, i hope you can help on the ongoing journey and get some clarity in my thoughts.
My Laptop ist use ist a Lenovo Thinkpad L15 with a Ryzen Pro7 and 32GB RAM.
My idea it, to use my ck88 as a Midi-controller and use the various Buttons and sliders to Control everthing. I wanna use the built-in audio-interface of the ck88 and was able to get this to work with a few plugins.
The questions are:
What do you think about Hardware setup?
What do u thing about the software and plugins?
Are there any basic rgas to start with or does it make sense, to make a special CK88-Interface?
Ill show u the setlist of my Band here, so u have a context of the songs im playing.
welcome to the GP-family.
I would say that hardware wise you have everything you need, but i’m not sure how the internal sound interface of your keyboard handles the separate sound sources (internal sounds vs. sounds from plugins)… but as you wrote, it seems that you managed it.
You should however switch the local midi of your keyboard to OFF, so you can connect/switch/change any possible combination of internal/plugin sounds within Gig Performer!
Software wise you also have a very solid base of everything you might need… maybe worth a look (and a ear): Pianoteq from Modartt (for piano sounds), Blue 3 by CherryAudio (tone wheel organ), or B3-X from IK-Multimedia (tone wheel organ), or Lounge Lizard from AAS (E-Pianos).
Make yourself familiar with the “Rig Manager” - this might save you lots of work, time and nerves to a future point… don’t use MIDI-OMNI blocks! (use the device aliases from Rig Manager).
Think about using a combination of local rackspaces, sending their audio over to the global rackspace (where the final audio out will sit).
Make extensive use of the forum search!
Ask the friendly user base, but don’t forget to tell them all the details, so they actually can help.
(like you already did with your very first posting )
BTW: From which corner of Germany do you come? (there are quite a lot German users amongst us)
It might work well with basic stuff, but it probably will bite you some day… because it really catches every MIDI from everywhere, and maybe that’s not what you intend at that point.
But when this happens, i promise you will go nuts because you won’t think of that possibility anymore… For example OMNI MIDI is always a hot candidate when people experience MIDI loops which will freeze or crash the whole application. (Use the forum search for “midi loop” and you will find quite a few cases where this happened)
Better get used to only use what you actually need (or have), so you can keep things separated.
Moers… i see. Not actually around the corner from where i live (Homburg).
I still hope i will find some GP-fellow from the Saarland region… would be cool to have some nerd-talk while having a beer.
Not around the corner, but also not out of the world (Herdecke near Dortmund/Wuppertal)!!
My ideas on this:
If you can handle the V3 piano and the organ!! All good. If you have the slightest doubt, spend the money directly, then you won’t have the hassle of rebuilding everything later.
I would actually get an audio interface with at least four outputs. Then you can conveniently do your monitor mix via GP. This is really comfortable, unfortunately I found out too late.
Six outputs are even better, for clicks and maybe a microphone
Yes,thats Not too far away and i would really Like to see you with your band one time.
What do you mean with '“handle the v3 piano and the Organ”?
I have a Yamaha mg12xu here, maybe thats better?
I made some progress, but i then i got to know Gigperformer and was very exited to try it out.(Great Thanks to @Toeti for his amazing German Youtube-Channel) On Black Friday i managed to buy me the Arturia V Collection X.
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