DMG and Ableton for live performances. What do I need? (Page 1) - Nintendo Handhelds - Forums

1 Sep 21, 2012 8:12 am

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Robotcity, the year 20XX

Ok, so I am a complete moron when it comes to electronic music making. I have a fairly simple question (I think) but I cannot find the answer.

What I want is:

- make music on my DMG
- make drums in Ableton
- sync them together live (so dmg and ableton are running together)
- I want to do this in a continuous mix (so two DMGs and a lot of ableton patterns to trigger)
- So, I want the music not to stop! And I want two DMGs running sync with ableton
- Plus, I want to be able to trigger stuff in ableton via a midi controller while stuff runs still sync.

Is this possible? What do I need?

2 Sep 21, 2012 9:43 am

an0va

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Dunno about doing a continuous mix, but this comment applies to almost all problems in life:

"yo you can do that with arduino"

but for reals, you need an arduino boy to essentially make the gameboy a MIDI device and BAM-DMG and ableton are synced.

btw got ur e-mail

3 Sep 21, 2012 9:59 am

Downstate

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shanghai

you need an arduinoboy....... thats it.

lots of ideas on this thread

http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/8481/ … ive-setup/

ps google is your friend. si is NEX

4 Sep 21, 2012 10:04 am

Saskrotch

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the thing is

a) i think arduino wouldn't be great for syncing multiple gameboys, unless you can use the 4 way adaptor with it, which i haven't tried.
b) you'll have to edit the arduino code to be able to do use it in a continuous mix situation. the way it's set up as far as syncing with LSDJ is that i needs a start signal from ableton to sync up with it.

5 Sep 21, 2012 11:24 am

Downstate

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shanghai

cant use just use 2 gameboys and a sepearte arduino boy for each to recieve clock from ableton ? i means thats a sure fire way to do it. im sure there's someway you can sync more than one GB from an arduinoboy, im sure i read that somewhere. that would be pretty fun.

6 Sep 21, 2012 2:24 pm

nickmaynard

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Saskrotch wrote:

the thing is
a) i think arduino wouldn't be great for syncing multiple gameboys, unless you can use the 4 way adaptor with it, which i haven't tried.

you have to do additional modification to get the four player to work with the arduinoboy. i just figured it all out recently.

7 Sep 21, 2012 2:46 pm

breakphase

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Earth

Get a good sound card. Maybe it's obvious but for a live situation the less latency the better.

8 Sep 25, 2012 8:28 am

Men of Mega

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Robotcity, the year 20XX

nickmaynard wrote:

Saskrotch wrote:
the thing is
a) i think arduino wouldn't be great for syncing multiple gameboys, unless you can use the 4 way adaptor with it, which i haven't tried.
you have to do additional modification to get the four player to work with the arduinoboy. i just figured it all out recently.

Are you willing to sell these beauties? I need one

9 Sep 25, 2012 8:29 am

Men of Mega

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Robotcity, the year 20XX

an0va wrote:

btw got ur e-mail

Believe it or not mister Davis, but a mail is incoming asap! Uploading files as we speak.

10 Sep 25, 2012 7:02 pm

pixls

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Honestly I would just recomment recording the gameboy into ableton and making a live set all in ableton with the recordings and with those drums, I would just be a bit easier maybe?

Also, you could do non-LSDJ stuff and use an arduinoboy or one of the nanoloop adaptors with mGB and write all in ableton, and then use DMGs for live audio?

Last edited by pixls (Sep 25, 2012 7:05 pm)

11 Sep 25, 2012 7:14 pm

Timbob

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Jonge, dat zeg ik toch al de hele tijd.

arduinoboy.
of die USB dingen van nanoloop, moet het ook mee lukken.

(in english, to be less rude)

In theory, you could do it with just those nanoloop usb connectors, since al you really need is a clock signal and you're golden.
maybe an extra DMG-07 to split the signal multiple ways, or just an extra nano-usb connector..

Last edited by Timbob (Sep 25, 2012 7:17 pm)