Members Mikoo69 Posted August 21, 2009 Members Share Posted August 21, 2009 i need something to trigger samples live in my band, and as a guitar player id like control at my feet. ideally what i need is something that i can pull up a bank and trigger 3-4 different samples in a song...sometimes it will be just one sample per song, sometimes more. i am wondering what my options are here i can either run it into my guitar amp or direct into the PA. all the samples will be pre-recorded from our record album and dumped onto the sampler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mikoo69 Posted August 22, 2009 Author Members Share Posted August 22, 2009 are my only options boss RC-50 and the Digitech Jamman? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SharkMinusBear Posted August 22, 2009 Members Share Posted August 22, 2009 you could get a sampler like a roland sp-444 and connect a midi footswitch to it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lumberjackzach Posted August 22, 2009 Members Share Posted August 22, 2009 you could get a sampler like a roland sp-444 and connect a midi footswitch to it this. I've always wanted to get a midi organ footpedal, and connect it to a synth and play synth while playing guitar. Apparently Adrian Utley of Portishead does this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hooya Posted August 22, 2009 Members Share Posted August 22, 2009 You could use a RC-2 in theory. You could store samples in each of the banks, set them to "One Shot" mode. You'd have to plan well in advance. It'd start at 1, then every time you hit the foot switch it'd trigger the sample. If you hook up an FS5-U (whatever one is the dual version of that) the second switch will trigger the next sequence stored, so #2, which you could trigger multiple times, then switch to #3, etc. You can't go back to #1 with just the footswitch though, you have to go forwards only. But it could be done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TomCTC Posted August 22, 2009 Members Share Posted August 22, 2009 this.I've always wanted to get a midi organ footpedal, and connect it to a synth and play synth while playing guitar.Apparently Adrian Utley of Portishead does this. As does Adam Jones of Tool. The SP-444 is your best bet. With one of these connected:http://www.peak2005.com/i/product_info.php/products_id/47 Thats what I plan to do within the year. Load the samples in the Roland via USB, and trigger them on the floor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SharkMinusBear Posted August 22, 2009 Members Share Posted August 22, 2009 As does Adam Jones of Tool.The SP-444 is your best bet. With one of these connected:http://www.peak2005.com/i/product_info.php/products_id/47Thats what I plan to do within the year. Load the samples in the Roland via USB, and trigger them on the floor. careful though, I don't think the 404 has usb. I got the 555 and the usb makes it really easy to load wav files from my computer, but it's gonna be tough if the 404 doesnt have that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MegaTom Posted August 22, 2009 Members Share Posted August 22, 2009 If you have a laptop, you can use any one of about a zillion different sampler/sample playback apps with a MIDI foot controller. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SharkMinusBear Posted August 22, 2009 Members Share Posted August 22, 2009 If you have a laptop, you can use any one of about a zillion different sampler/sample playback apps with a MIDI foot controller. yea you just need the laptop and an interface that has midi in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MegaTom Posted August 22, 2009 Members Share Posted August 22, 2009 Or an interface that has USB out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mikoo69 Posted August 22, 2009 Author Members Share Posted August 22, 2009 a laptop is a possibility. i could use my laptop with a midi controller like this one http://www.rolandus.com/products/productdetails.php?ProductId=55&ParentId=52 my question then is it possible for my bassplayer to hook up a midi keyboard as well into the interface so that he can play his keyboard parts simultaneously. that would be 2 midi controllers, one laptop, one interface. what interface would let me pull this off? further, can i also run the vocals and vocal effects through this interface and control them via my midi board? i think mainstage would be appropriate for this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TomCTC Posted August 22, 2009 Members Share Posted August 22, 2009 careful though, I don't think the 404 has usb. I got the 555 and the usb makes it really easy to load wav files from my computer, but it's gonna be tough if the 404 doesnt have that. Ahhh right, yeah. 555 is the one for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mikoo69 Posted August 22, 2009 Author Members Share Posted August 22, 2009 is there a way to control a 404 with a footpedal that has more than one trigger switch? like one with 8 trigger switches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SharkMinusBear Posted August 22, 2009 Members Share Posted August 22, 2009 Yea it has a midi in, so it just depends on the footswitch you get, you can assign buttons to midi notes which are pads that trigger the samples. Looks like the 404 just accepts Mic 1/4 input. I bet you could plug a guitar directly in but I don't think it's meant for that like the 555 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mikoo69 Posted August 22, 2009 Author Members Share Posted August 22, 2009 can you control a 404 or 555 with one of these http://www.rolandus.com/products/pro...55&ParentId=52 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MegaTom Posted August 22, 2009 Members Share Posted August 22, 2009 a laptop is a possibility.i could use my laptop with a midi controller like this one http://www.rolandus.com/products/productdetails.php?ProductId=55&ParentId=52my question then is it possible for my bassplayer to hook up a midi keyboard as well into the interface so that he can play his keyboard parts simultaneously. that would be 2 midi controllers, one laptop, one interface.what interface would let me pull this off?further, can i also run the vocals and vocal effects through this interface and control them via my midi board? i think mainstage would be appropriate for this? You probably Could do this, but if you don't have one helluva fast computer, latency may be an issue. Also, if the laptop goes down, you lose 2 instruments instead of just 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MegaTom Posted August 22, 2009 Members Share Posted August 22, 2009 And if you are considering Main Stage, perhaps you should look into using that as your guitar rig; and instead of manually triggering samples, you would be able to have a backing track played from the app and also have your effects changes automated. That would leave you freedom to move about your stage as you please, though your band would also have with become very comfortable to playing off a click. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members conky Posted August 22, 2009 Members Share Posted August 22, 2009 careful though, I don't think the 404 has usb. I got the 555 and the usb makes it really easy to load wav files from my computer, but it's gonna be tough if the 404 doesnt have that. The 404 is stupidly easy to load samples from a computer. And any midi pedal will work with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mikoo69 Posted August 23, 2009 Author Members Share Posted August 23, 2009 now im thinking just a boss RC-50 as it could let the samples come out of my guitar amp (they are all guitar based anyway) and also give me the ability to do looping. seems like its less trouble than all this midi PA business. hows the RC-50 as a sampler? how many samples can i trigger at once? are the switches on/off meaning if i have a sample i want to turn on and turn it off by hitting the same pedal. then turn it back on... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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