RE: [microsound] RE: [personal] [microsound] Ableton Live and MP3

["flippy" <flippy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Why must this come down to being 'lazy' or not?  That's obscuring the
issue.  Pre-converting the mp3's to wavs before a show is what I do at
the moment, but I simply don't have the space to store them *all*
de-compressed.  So if the mood of the performance shifts in an
unexpected direction, I am limited. (or, as I do now, I run up a copy of
winamp and play through that - not really optimum though)

My laptop is used for work as well as play, so my sound projects have to
coexist with lots of other data.  Sure, I could get a large external
hard drive, but buying more hardware is not always the best solution.
More money outlaid.  More gear to lug around.  More power requirements.
(I often play on a 12V battery-powered sound system, with limited power,
and no inverter, so external drives arent really an option)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ::) [mailto:r3dshift@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Tuesday, 8 April 2003 12:19 AM
> To: microsound
> Subject: Re: [microsound] RE: [personal] [microsound] Ableton 
> Live and MP3
> 
> 
> live is made with live performance in mind.  most people use 
> laptops for
> live shows, as I do.  most people aren't willing to give up a 
> couple hundred
> mhz + drive throughput because they are too lazy to write a conversion
> script to convert mp3 to wav.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "mark" <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "'microsound'" <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 9:58 AM
> Subject: RE: [microsound] RE: [personal] [microsound] Ableton 
> Live and MP3
> 
> 
> > My only argument with this is that some people DO have the machines
> > that can cope with the overhead of what you describe and so why deny
> > them it. However I don't use Live on a regular basis and I 
> don't really
> > care :-)
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ::) [mailto:r3dshift@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 07 April 2003 14:57
> > To: microsound
> > Subject: Re: [microsound] RE: [personal] [microsound] 
> Ableton Live and
> > MP3
> >
> >
> > live does not store samples in memory, but rather reads them off the
> > disk live, each time the sample is played.  for this 
> reason, mp3 support
> > would entail an mp3 being read by the drive, decoded, stretched or
> > compressed (depending on your warp settings on the sample 
> in Live) and
> > then fx would be added on top of that.
> >
> > overall, most people recognize that the CPU and system 
> overhead is not
> > worth it when you can just convert the sample to WAV and 
> use the sample
> > material without the extra CPU overhead.
> >
> > -Joe
> >

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