Show us your live set-up!

MarkR

I imagine the vast majority of the gang here do not use iOS for live work, but a few of us do.

Those that do, please show us your live rig!

For the past 16 years I've been doing music for a dance group, and that's what got me into IOS gear, as I travel mainly by bicycle (with a big trailer) and was looking for ways to lighten the load, after using a laptop, 48-key controller, and heavy keyboard amp for the first few years. (For the record I'm now 63, and while I like to think I'm in pretty good shape for my age towing a loaded bike trailer uphill gets tiring, fast.)

My rig changes to meet various musical requirements. Current iteration is thus:

From L-R: homemade very Beta button “pedalboard” MIDI controller (it replaces the MIDIfied organ pedalboard I posted a few months back. More on that in a future post). It triggers the Air1 above it, which still works properly after nine years of use. It's running AUM, Animoog, Sunrizer, and bs-16i.

Next is a Roland Handsonic HPD20, a bass drum pedal MIDI trigger into the 20, foot switch trigger for the 20, sustain pedal, Korg Microkey controller, Rolls stereo 4-channel mixer, and an Air3 running AUM, bs-16i, Pipa, Numa Player, and Zeeon.

Oh and at bottom left is a REMO 22” frame drum, because I always need at least one acoustic drum in my setup.

WilfredWelfare

Great little and efficient setup! It would be super handy if you could wire it up to an electric bike to power it. Is the bass drum trigger part from an electronic drum? How you add the frame drum to the mix? I can't see any mic. And the last question is about amplification, do you have some kind of wired or bt PA system?

MarkR

@WilfredWelfare said:
Great little and efficient setup! It would be super handy if you could wire it up to an electric bike to power it.

I could, but I'd prefer my feet to be working the MIDI pedals than my bike's pedals.

Is the bass drum trigger part from an electronic drum?

Yes, it goes into the Roland Handsonic.

How you add the frame drum to the mix? I can't see any mic.

I didn't need to mic it for this gig, because the room acoustics were very good. If the room is really large I'd probably not use it, as trying to mic a big frame drum and get the overall balance right without the aid of someone at a mixing desk out in the room would be tricky.

And the last question is about amplification, do you have some kind of wired or bt PA system?

For small to mid-size rooms I've been using a Logitech speaker rig for over a decade now (https://www.logitech.com/en-us/products/speakers/z623-speaker-system-thx.980-000402.html). It puts out great bass, and to keep it compact I simply turned the satellite speakers on their side and duct-taped them to the top of the subwoofer.

(I imagine Logitech might be pleased with how much abuse this system has gone through and still kept working after all this time. It's been bumped around in a bike trailer for years, and I even cycle in the winter at below-freezing temps.)

Stuntman_mike

@MarkR said:
I imagine the vast majority of the gang here do not use iOS for live work, but a few of us do.

Those that do, please show us your live rig!

For the past 16 years I've been doing music for a dance group, and that's what got me into IOS gear, as I travel mainly by bicycle (with a big trailer) and was looking for ways to lighten the load, after using a laptop, 48-key controller, and heavy keyboard amp for the first few years. (For the record I'm now 63, and while I like to think I'm in pretty good shape for my age towing a loaded bike trailer uphill gets tiring, fast.)

My rig changes to meet various musical requirements. Current iteration is thus:

From L-R: homemade very Beta button “pedalboard” MIDI controller (it replaces the MIDIfied organ pedalboard I posted a few months back. More on that in a future post). It triggers the Air1 above it, which still works properly after nine years of use. It's running AUM, Animoog, Sunrizer, and bs-16i.

Next is a Roland Handsonic HPD20, a bass drum pedal MIDI trigger into the 20, foot switch trigger for the 20, sustain pedal, Korg Microkey controller, Rolls stereo 4-channel mixer, and an Air3 running AUM, bs-16i, Pipa, Numa Player, and Zeeon.

Oh and at bottom left is a REMO 22” frame drum, because I always need at least one acoustic drum in my setup.

Nice, I love it!
Kinda reminds me of FKJ because he uses what he has and doesn’t seem interested in buying new stuff all the time - I noticed he’s maintained the same setup/workflow for many years:

Stuntman_mike

Had to throw this in here:

Always gets me 🙏🏻