Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, Nick Rothwell <nick@c...> wrote:
> > Although rEalm amongst others have advised 
> > that something like Ableton Live would be the most stable 
solution, I 
> > need hands on tweakability aswell, Max/MSP seems to be the 
perfect 
> > platform for constructing live performance tools
> 
> Actually, I've had no stability problems with Max/MSP on stage. 
(The
> Mac version, that is.) In the 12 years or so that I've been gigging
> with it, the most serious on-stage failures have actually been with
> hardware (a Lexicon FX box with dodgy front-panel controls, and an
> E-mu UltraProteus with an unpredictable hardware problem.)
> 
> Max/MSP is certainly more flexible than Ableton Live, or anything 
like
> Reason, Reaktor, or any other techno softsynth package beginning 
with
> "R", but you are very much building your own tools - out of the 
box,
> it does nothing until you learn how to build things.

Sounds good. Do you use the vst~ module much? I think my first aim 
will be to build a vst hosting and processing patch which can be 
sequenced live from the XL-7.