Great program, user tutorials, real examples

[Kaspar]

Hi!
I have tested your program only a couple of days now and i find it very inspiring.
Everything about it - the idea, the looks...

Sorry about the long post, but I'm only starting

For now I'm more of a "everything planned out" type of a composer, but I've always wanted to go into a more live, improvisational type of an approach.

I have had the idea to be able to compose, play many instruments live - not just the solo instrument, but a complete arrangement.
So far I've poked around a bit "pd", MaxMSP, but they seem too complicated and for a musician like me, who's just starting to have thoughts of these approaches, it kills the enthusiasm.

For now things look very promising with USINE for me.
I like the approach of the manual also - integrated patching examples along the feature manual material (although there could always be more )

It's amazing how good I felt about myself after I accomplished the simplest stereo delay patch

I think the issue with this kind of a program isn't only how to use it's features.
It's encompasses also a more larger area - what could it be used for, to what uncharted territories could you go with it?

So for a beginner like me it would be extremely useful to get as much as possible of the patching tutorials.
But also as much as possible of the real usage examples of the "pros" - what exactly do you do with it, how etc - to get some ideas to get going.

My instrument arsenal includes a MIDI-guitar, 7-string, keyboard controller, Nord Modular and soon to arrive Korg PadKONTROL.

So, hopefully my relationship with USINE turns out to be a long-term one.

And thanks again for the amazing software.

[captaingoatboy]

Hi Kaspar.

I'm also new tro Usine (my first post!) and find it to be one hell of a great peice of software. Like you i wanted a way to play songs form my album live without it being just like another form of karaoke, playing guitar and singing along to pre sequenced parts. I wanted to fuse rock n roll, hip hop, electro, techno and punk, and have it be exciting for the audience. So i was hoping to loop my electric guitar, my voice, play and loop synths and/or drum machines live, build sounds up from small jittery samples til they become the song. I tried ableton, and while i found it to be pretty intuitive and indeed, a very clever peice of software, there were things about it I felt were restrictive and frustrating (the inabilty to automate scenes, and a lack of a general purpose live looping plugin for example). Also it's too expensive for my broke ass. Then i tried usine free, found it to be pretty daunting, but kept at it anyway, something nagged me about this software. I couldn't get sound into or out of it. Having worked with DAWS for over a decade I found this daunting, and i saw usine as a challenge. Now after just under three weeks and one pro licence later i'm convinced i've finally found my perfect live music software.

Anyway, in answer to your post, at the moment my first steps in using e usine are basically like a version of ableton live that's satisfying to use. i use grid mode exclusively just at the moment, (the conductor is wonderful for very quickly trying out different arrangements) though i haven;t even delved 'under the hood' as of yet. I need a better laptop, my old one's getting past it, but despite this i can easily have 5-6 tracks with sequenced loops, a looper vst and an amp modelling vst with hardly any problems. There's a bit of glitchiness when a workspace is first loaded, so this is the reason for my concerns regarding my laptop, i don;t want to pull any audience members out of the gig by a stuttering pc!

I haven;t played live yet, it still takes a lot of rehearsal and practice, despite me bieng on my own, but i was planning on putting a video up on youtube of my playing one of my songs so other users could comment on my incredibly simple setup!! Ha!

So anyway, i also wanted to say thank you to senso for this amazing program. I just can;t wait til i know it inside out.

[Kaspar]

Anyway, in answer to your post, at the moment my first steps in using e usine are basically like a version of ableton live that's satisfying to use. i use grid mode exclusively just at the moment, (the conductor is wonderful for very quickly trying out different arrangements) though i haven;t even delved 'under the hood' as of yet. I need a better laptop, my old one's getting past it, but despite this i can easily have 5-6 tracks with sequenced loops, a looper vst and an amp modelling vst with hardly any problems. There's a bit of glitchiness when a workspace is first loaded, so this is the reason for my concerns regarding my laptop, i don;t want to pull any audience members out of the gig by a stuttering pc!

I haven;t played live yet, it still takes a lot of rehearsal and practice, despite me bieng on my own, but i was planning on putting a video up on youtube of my playing one of my songs so other users could comment on my incredibly simple setup!! Ha!

Yes, please do that! I bet it'll be very educational.
I'm considering a computer upgrade myself - deciding if two cores are enough or should I go straight to quad