Lagrange4 wrote:I am having a hard time with just taking a laptop and replaying .wav files back...it seems like cheating. on the other hand I dont want to take all my gear to the show.
I wouldn't sweat that. I shared a stage with a dude once where all he did was press play and then played solitaire while his tracks rolled. 
Quote:what do you/others do in the live setting?
I've only ever played small clubs (50-100 peep capacity) so my experience is limited. But, for what it's worth here's what i do.
My 'footprint' is really small now. Laptop (new one on order), Oxygen8, Cubase SX 2.0, Reason 3.0, EuroRack MX602A, FX Rack (4 space thingy w/slideout shelf for the Oxy), some external toys (Type U-73, Photo-therimin, Buddha Machine, pedals, etc). It all stacks nicely on a table-top. VSTi's are sequenced in Cubase (and I can tweak them with a mouse) and I 'tweak' Reason with the Oxy8 and my other toys 'on-the-fly'. That way I at least look like I'm doing something other than play solitaire. 
Quote:laptop running sonar6 all bounced to 4 stereo sub mixes ran to the outs on a firewire device like firestudio. that way I have more control over all of the mix and the sound guy just has 8 tracks to deal with. a controller key board, my laptop novation nova, and Cs6r controlled via novation X-station. ( if I ran a second fire studio I could record my live set in real tracks not just 2track stereo )
That's certainly a nice setup. I find most sound dudes (if the show actually has one) are much happier if you only send them 2 lines (left/right) as opposed to several. Get yourself a mixer.
Quote:so thats 13 tracks total to the sound guy.
if you're a solo act for the night I'm sure this would be managable, but if you're sharing a stage the sound dude will prob'ly turn up his/her nose at that much info coming down the pipe. That's a lot to deal with for only one act. Of course, if you're playing to 100,000 people, then they are prob'ly already setup for multi tracking.
I don't know anything about Sonar... 
Good luck... and have a blast!!
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