[RWP] live performance question.

Mon Oct 7 20:55:59 EDT 2013

This is true, though in fairness, if you were going to do this Reaper would 
be the program to do it with considering how light on system resources it is 
compared with other DAW software.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Colin McDonald" <blulemon at telus.net>
To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
Sent: Monday, October 07, 2013 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: [RWP] live performance question.


> true.
> in fact, personally, I would never use any software based fx processor for 
> live vocals at apaying gig.
> Mostly because computers are nitoriously unreliable and will crash, freeze 
> or otherwise not function in the manner you wish when it is vital that 
> they do what they are supposed to do.
> You cannot have a crash or freeze in the middle of a song right.
> Much better to buy a piece of hardware design to add fx to your signal 
> which is reliable and will not depend upon something as flaky as software, 
> and operating system etc.
> Especially when you are asking a fairly low powered machine to provide 
> high level processor intensive functions such as what is required for 
> realtime fx processing.
> Now if you had a quad core laptop, or something with allot of horse power, 
> you wouldn't have to worry much, but a mini? Probably not the best plan.
> check your local kijiji or craigslist for cheap used fx processors and go 
> that route instead of trying to use realtime software fx.
> Then again, if your not being payed, and it's for short performances, 
> perhaps it'll work just fine.
> But a payed 4 hour gig where you absolutely need things to work right now 
> and work perfectly the first time without a bunch of searching, and 
> resetting and allot of buggering about, then you need hardware.
> While we all may love the IOs devices, they are not quick, flawless and 
> simple to make happen what you need to happen in a matter of seconds 
> rather than minutes.
> You can't just turn a knob or two to make the effect happen, it takes 
> allot of voiceover blabber to make it work lol.
>
> Regards
> Colin
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Drew" <amockery at gmail.com>
> Sent: Monday, October 07, 2013 5:13 PM
> To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
> Subject: Re: [RWP] live performance question.
>
>> If you're using hardware in a live performance setting you should be 
>> using something with ASIO which has as close to 0 latency as you're going 
>> to get out of a computer.
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Colin McDonald" <blulemon at telus.net>
>> To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
>> Sent: Monday, October 07, 2013 11:57 AM
>> Subject: Re: [RWP] live performance question.
>>
>>
>>> absolutely you can use fx plugs in real time.
>>> and, depending on the horse power of the computer, you can use as many 
>>> as the processor will support in realtime.
>>> On a mac mini, I have no idea how powerful it is.
>>> For instance, my netbook, running a 1.7GHZ processor and 1 gig of ram, I 
>>> can run probably 4 vocal fx at once before things start breaking up or 
>>> before processor lag becomes an issue.
>>> if you want to run reverb, delay, equalization etc it's no problem.
>>> Just open a track, arm it, and select your fx with record monitor turned 
>>> on so you can hear the changes as you set the parameters of the effect.
>>> You may experience latency on a small computer like that though, so just 
>>> be aware of that issue if you are trying to use the computer with reaper 
>>> live.
>>> BTW, a digitech vocal processor with all the vocal effects you can 
>>> handle is not much more than 100 bucks these days.
>>> You can find a lexicon mx200 for less than that on the used market...the 
>>> mx200 is fairly accessible and has extremely good quality fx.
>>> Even a small behringer mixer with onboard vocal fx would run you 100 
>>> bucks or under brand new.
>>> then you wouldn't have to deal with latency.
>>> Regards
>>> Colin
>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>> From: "Indigo" <33indigo at charter.net>
>>> Sent: Monday, October 07, 2013 11:43 AM
>>> To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
>>> Subject: Re: [RWP] live performance question.
>>>
>>>> I haven't used Reaper in a mac, but in Windows, when you have input 
>>>> going to a track and assign effects to that track, you certainly can 
>>>> hear changes in the effect realtime; at least on some plugs.
>>>> To test that, just insert a track, press F to load an effect, navigate 
>>>> to an effect like ReaEQ, then change one of its parameters, like a high 
>>>> pass filter, and you'll immediately hear the bass all go away, so 
>>>> you'll get the typical telephone sound.
>>>> Maybe you can find vocal plugs that also work in realtime; as the 
>>>> bundled Rea effects do.
>>>> Indi
>>>>
>>>> On 10/7/2013 12:26 PM, Jim Noseworthy wrote:
>>>>> Hello Folks:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I was looking for a good accessible hardware vocal effects processor 
>>>>> however
>>>>> I am unable to locate one; at least, that I could afford.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> My question is:  using Reaper, along with a Mac Mini, could I assign 
>>>>> Reapers
>>>>> various processing effects to individual empty tracks and then choose 
>>>>> the
>>>>> particular track that contained the effects processor and use it in 
>>>>> real
>>>>> time for live performances?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks all over the place gang.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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