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Hi guys,

I did my first live show last saturday with a drummer. It went great, some things worked, but there also were some issues.

I did as following :
I have extracted each track on Famitracker that I want live (mostly Pulse tracks), in .wav, mixed them in a unique .wav file (via Cubase), then loaded them on a software created by a friend (for the needs of an old band). This software assigns .wav files to slots, corresponding to pads on a midi pedalboard. So when I push on a pad of the pedalboard, the midi signal goes to my laptop through on external soundcard (alesis iO2), and the program launches the .wav sample back in the soundcard, and then in the PA.
Yes, it looks quite complicated for a simple task (here is a video to show how we did it better than with words). I don't have many hardware, and I used to do that with an old band as I said. As we had not much time to prepare the show, we chose this because that was the only way we knew of.
But, there were some bugs (you can hear a little one at the beginning of the video). These bugs messed a lot with the live, as the drummer and myself were lost at some point.

tl;dr We launch Famitracker samples with a midi pedalboard via an amateur program on a laptop, but there were some issues (big lags).

My question is : What would you recommand to improve the show (harware/software/methods) ? I'd like if it's possible to keep on launching the samples with the foot because that's what gives the 'live' thing, on he other hand my drummer would like to have the click in the ears. So I'd like to launch samples via my midi pedalboard in a more reliable way, and with a click track which goes to the headphones of my drummer, and the melodies tracks which go in the PA. Is it possible ? What hardware/software would you recommand (we made a little money with this show).

Thanks guys !

P.S. : Please don't take in consideration the many mistakes we do on the live video...