i am also gonna get an SKB case for my CS.. a similar one.
http://www.skbcases.com/music/products/proddetail.php?f=&;id=443&o=pop&offset=1&c=103&s=78#
with the same laptop shelf. i'll mount a A&H Xone 92 behind the CS. but i am worried that I may be reaching too far back and kill my shoulder blades. i already have that pain going for some weird reason. but it's only 14 spaces. 6 spaces for the CS and 8 for the mixer. it should be OK.
i'm really stoked on this. kick ass mobile setup. it's gonna be sick functionally and look sick also
Interesting post.
FS1R here too ;) I9;m looking to rack it and the XL-7 with a Waldorf pulse in a midi loop. Just waiting for this new rack case to become available: http://www.skbcases.com/music/products/proddetail.php?f=&id=646&o=pop&offset=1&c=78&s=78
XL-7 tracks 1-8 are reserved for Drums, Track 9 for Pulse, 10,11,12 for 3 parts FS1R, 13 for internal sounds (from the Vintage keys rom, mostly). Tracks 14, 15 and 16 are the MultiA/B automation tracks for buildups, fills, etc. There's also a blofeld in there - using the multi mode I can replace or layer any of the other tracks with a blofeld part. TBH I haven't used song mode - just x-mixing between patterns. I'm comfortable with this now.
Only problem is, my current soundcard (X-station) has only 2 inputs and I have no mixer. I've been using the XL-7 itself as the line mixer, but this is a crime. I want seperate outputs. Now hoping to soon snag an ESI ESU1808 - 18 input usb2 card, so I can multitrack directly into Reaper and apply VST fx per track. Not sure if latency will allow this in realtime, but on paper it's a nice recording/mixer setup. Eventually I'll fill the lower slots with a proper mixer, eq/compressor so I can be CPU independent.
Workflow-wise I like to grid-record the core drum pattern - Hats, then BD, snare directly on the CS using the knobs - this is a great feature of OS2. I also like the swing and offset controls on the CS - pity that they are 'destructive'. Saving regularly is a necessary habit, aquired here via much cursing and gnashing of teeth:)
For everything else it's a mixture of playing it realtime via the x-station or using custom sequencers in Reaktor. Record everything onto the CS, mix and match, etc.
--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, Zsolt Szabó wrote:
>
> I mainly use it to lay down quick beats & loops as basis for
> songs to work on. I use multi mode, almost exclusively pattern
> sequencing, rarely song mode to try out different arrangements.
>
> Ususally I use Logic 5.5 on PC to hyper edit the loops. It just
> doesn't get any better than this. Then the output is recorded in
> Nuendo as WAV.
> I could use Nuendo for midi sequencing as well, but
> I'm so addicted to hyper edit in Logic - the very best interface
> for drum sequencing, ever.
>
> For non-percussive sounds I don't use the XL7 at all - but I have only
> the XL7 ROM, which is not very compelling to me.
> Whean I assembled a partially OK song in Nuendo, then the MIDI
> is transferred to the XL7, separated to tracks/channels.
> Then I can experiment with the loop/song - I make the XL7
>; the master, which sends MIDI to my 8x8 setup - 2 x Waldorf mW1,
> AKAI MPC-42, Yamaha FS1R, Lexicon MPX-1, Oberheim Matrix 1000,
> and some routinly changing samplers and effects boxes.
>
> I know, it's somewhat complicated, but then I can go live everywhere
> with just the XL7 and still can precisely edit in the computer.
> The biggest headache is to correctly setup the MIDI Local On/Off
> and channel assignment through different songs and arrangements.
>
> Oh yeah, keeping everything tidy and consistent unfortunately is
> not an easy task with the XL7. What I really miss in it, is a ";Save All",
> which would assign & save everything as it is. I was seriously
> disappointed when I found out, that there's no such thing in it. :(
> How many times did I forgot to save a preset? Too many...
> especially when parallel editing several ones.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Zsolt | http://adsr.hu
>