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Keyboard and MIDI station

Keyboard and MIDI station - Ableton Live Tutorial

From the course: Performing with Ableton Live: On Stage with St. Vincent

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Keyboard and MIDI station

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The center of the operations is the computer. The computer is a MacBook Pro and it's probably the most expensive piece of gear on the, on this rise. And we sort of need it to be as powerful as we can get it to be, because that's where most of the action happens. So it needs to be a reliable. It needs to have plenty of CPU headroom. I'm running Ableton Live and I'm also running Reason by Propeller Heads, and several plug-ins. To send the signal into the computer, we need to establish our MIDI chain. So, I'm a keyboard player. This is a keyboard controller that I use, for most of what happens during the show. This is a, an Edirol PCR-500. It's just a controller. It doesn't generate any audio. And a controller to me is good for several things. One being the keyboard action. This one has solid usable synth action and that's really all I need for a show like this, where I'm not playing any piano. This show is all synthesizer and sampler sounds and effects and things like that. So a solid…

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