Here’s a picture of my live set up. I play bass and keyboard, so i just plug my bass and my midi controller into this pedalboard. All keyboard sounds come from renoise, sample instruments or plugins, out through a usb audio interface mounted underneath. The bass pedals are controlled by renoise via midi, and i mostly control everything using the play current line command mapped to the little 2 button footswitch in front.
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It seems like you’ve incorporated various creative solutions.
Is that silver box attached to the USB hub something like a Raspberry Pi?
Are you launching Renoise and using GPIO to control the power supply for the effects unit?
Yeah the metal box is a raspberry pi pico that that takes midi in and controls some cmos analog switches. I had to add a jack to all my pedals and wire the tip and sleeve across the momentary switch. Then I use 2 phrases to simulate long and short presses, mainly just for my looper pedal where long presses do different functions, and then i can put a chord in a pattern line to toggle any combination of pedals and duration of the simulated press and trigger it all with play current line command.
Is the GPIO controlled via MIDI?
Are you using something like this?
Yes thats pretty much how it goes. Note number n controls gpio n which controls switch n. Note on makes gpio go high which makes switch close, note off makes gpio go low which makes switch open. I used a micropython midi monitor script but modified it to assign specific note numbers to specific gpio’s.
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that’s very tempting and cool!
what about the latency?
i find gigperformer rock-stable in live situation..
even got a rc505mk2 recently to pair with it nicely (using redux for drums, fill one instance with kick samples, map macro to select kick, same for kick and hat, so you can switch sounds on-the-fly very cool)
i’d really like to see example of your live performance?
Thanks:)
yes, please post video
There’s no noticeable latency. I hadn’t heard of gig performer, it looks pretty cool, seems like it does a lot of the same stuff ive been using renoise to do. Definitely planning to post a video next time i get a chance.
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