Usine can manage Irish music ;)

[La Tenaille]

I'm back to Usine after a quite long break, and pleased to share videos of our work with the band Toss'n Turn (Toss with tap dancers).

http://www.youtube.com/user/tossmusic

Don't expect screenshots of Usine, my laptop is on the floor, in front of my left foot If you really want to see it for 1 second, partially hidden behind my leg, you'll have to watch the video "twa corbies" at 3:37. Good luck
My use of Usine is quite basic : managing my sound card (all my instruments, voice, suitcase, cittern, virtual instruments, vocal harmoniser go through the card), midi messages (foot controler and cittern pots), onscreen lyrics, music sheets, personal notes, visual metronome to sync with delays, VSTs (preamps, reverb, disto...), levels and mutes per track.

My gear :
Laptop : HP 6820s with firewire card (expresscard).
Soundcard :RME Fireface 400
Virtual guitars : Roland VG-99
Foot controler Roland FC-300
Voice harmoniser : TC Electronic VoiceWorks Plus
Voice mic : shure Beta 87a
Suitcase mic : shure beta 91

I plan to add an electro didj (remoted by Usine) and a hi-hat, but missing time now
Thanks for watching !

[nay-seven]

you have really some great and various musical project Mister La Tenaille !
congrats and thanks to share !

[Floego]

impressive performance
intense!
Were the effects for the violin controlled by usine too?

[nay-seven]

I've also add this with a part of your explanation on the facebook page, hope that's not a problem...

[La Tenaille]

Thanks for the feedback!
Please do Nay-Seven, our work is made to be shared, embedded, etc...

@Floego : the violin isn't controlled by Usine. We thought about linking two computers but Tony wasn't ready to dive in month of computering . He uses a Roland RC-50 (that will soon send 3 separted stereo signals) and an old intelliverb with ugly FX

[senso]

I'm very impressed by your show!

[héliouk 6]

powerfull!

[GDLive]

more efficient than redbull

[bsork]

[La Tenaille]

Thanks guys
I discovered Usine by looking for a sampler more efficient than a Roland RC-50 on Audiofanzine. One guy talked about Usine echoplexx on a thread.
Finally I don't use sampling (sure I will one day but it means building my own and I don't feel ready yet), but I've replaced my 11 kilos Avalon vt737 preamp and my TC guitar unit with VSTs. I'd love to find a real plugin to replace my voiceworks but none are advanced enough to do the job (I edit all the voice scales).
My workspace is ok even if a few things are still unstable (let's say I master its weaknesses ), but the most enjoyable is to know I have now a tool that will fold to my artistic needs.

[23fx23]

wow i love it. impressive. beautiful and powerfull. love the voice performance too.

I don't know well voicework, but
tc made their plugs for powercore (but i wouldn't recomand for live use as you get an extra buffer latency)
there is for exemple TC-Helicon Harmony4 as vst or TC-Helicon VoiceModeler.
Tc voicelive2 seems their awesome new light hardware but quite expensive.

great stuff la tenaille keep showing us vids!

[La Tenaille]

thanks 23fx23,
I come from voicelive 1 and bought the "voiceworks plus" because I don't need a floor effect anymore (vwp is compact and rackable). Voicelive 2 is a kind of floor version of voiceworks plus. I know TC plugin but I'd hate to be forced to use their souncard just for a plugin !

[23fx23]

yeah i used their cards and powercore, sound is awesome but totally instable, i wouldn't recommand, especially for
live perf. it can be good only at offline processing.

they should go native to be easy used on any setup but they probably never will.. their cards are giant dongles..