Hi all
I'm using Ableton to flesh out my bands live sound by sequencing various keyboard sections which our drummer keeps time to via a click track.
I do all of the programming on my desktop and do all of my sound tweaking on that computer before transferring the Ableton file (the whole shebang ... patches and samples) across to my laptop which is the computer I use at rehearsal.
The laptop is plugged into our mixer via its stereo audio out jack into the mixer's aux in but the quality of the sounds I get are very poor (thin) compared to what I hear on my desktop setup (I'm just using the bog-standard sound card that came with my computer... definitely nothing too special and my speakers are simply a set of surround sound computer speakers ... I'm not using near field monitors).
My questions are: what is the best way to use a laptop in a live setting? Do you rely on the internal sound card of the laptop or is it better to use a souped-up external sound card and does this affect latency? Also, what is the best way to connect a laptop to the mixer to get the best sound ie. do you use the 3.5mm audio jack or a different method?
many thanks for your help everyone
I'm using Ableton to flesh out my bands live sound by sequencing various keyboard sections which our drummer keeps time to via a click track.
I do all of the programming on my desktop and do all of my sound tweaking on that computer before transferring the Ableton file (the whole shebang ... patches and samples) across to my laptop which is the computer I use at rehearsal.
The laptop is plugged into our mixer via its stereo audio out jack into the mixer's aux in but the quality of the sounds I get are very poor (thin) compared to what I hear on my desktop setup (I'm just using the bog-standard sound card that came with my computer... definitely nothing too special and my speakers are simply a set of surround sound computer speakers ... I'm not using near field monitors).
My questions are: what is the best way to use a laptop in a live setting? Do you rely on the internal sound card of the laptop or is it better to use a souped-up external sound card and does this affect latency? Also, what is the best way to connect a laptop to the mixer to get the best sound ie. do you use the 3.5mm audio jack or a different method?
many thanks for your help everyone