Loudspeaker Setup

Install - Installation procedure

On the Macintosh laptop

1. copy the folder called Etymo on your hard disk drive.
2. launch Max/MSP program.
3. in the options menu, click on file preferences. Then add the folder Etymo.
4. launch the file 'Etymo_01'

Patch Presentation

The concert patch has three parts :

• Top right: interface for events triggering. Events are represented by a unique pair of two numbers : section/cue.
  
• Top left: Init and main sub-patchers (audio, midi, libraries, events counter, reset, matrix connections).
  
• Bottom: gain and live mixing faders.
  

Main patch

Initialization - Initialization Procedure

To initialize the patch:

<li>1. click on <strong>load soundfiles + soundfonts</strong></li>
<li>2. choose the midi ports for the keyboard device and eventually the midi mixer (see figure 2)</li>
<li>2.bis eventually set the IP of the laptop displaying the events to the keyboard player</li>

Before performance:

<li>3. bang on <strong>init </strong> and wait four seconds</li>
<li>4. turn the DSP <strong>on</strong></li>

Main patch

Figure 2

Details - Details on the keyboard

Triggering of events

<li>Only one keyboard is used (see figure 1). It triggers both the samples and the events. High pitches (from 39 (C sharp 2) to 94 (F sharp 7)) trigger the samples. The low pitches (from 21 (A0) to 34 (A sharp 1) of the keyboard trigger the events: each cue correspond to one pitch in a chromatic order: cue 21 (A0), (A sharp 0) etc... If the keyboard makes a mistakes, there are two possibilities: if the pitch is above the last one and below the highest pitch of the section, the computer jumps to this pitch. Otherwise, nothing happens. The changing of section is made with the last event of each section, so if the keyboard forget it, you should trigger it by hand.</li>

For rehearsal (when mode "enable control sections" =1 in the main patch), sections can be selected with keyboard: keep pressed pitch 107 and then select pitch 60 to 91 for section 36 to 79 (see figure 2 below). Pitch 108 (C8) initializes the patch.

You can use a second laptop for displaying events to the keyboard player. The communication with main computer is made with udp/osc.

Figure 1

Figure 2

SOME MIXING INDICATIONS

• sfile début: lointain
  
• commencer filtre plus faible
  
• 39 2  augmenter
  
• puis fsyn
  
• puis sfile
  
• 41 1 fsyn plus fort
  
• 51 4 monter flanger
  
• haro voix: pas tout le temps
  
• 72 hoquetus: 100
  
• 73: contrôle de la voix dans le spat (suivre)
  
• Fin: fichier son crescendo
  
• puis spirale lointaine
  

ELECTRONIC SCORE

section   -   effets

36 sfile - filtre (dp 22)

37 sfile (dp 63)

38 sfile (dp 78)

39 sfile (dp 88)

41 fsyn(gliss-multi) (dp 115)

42 flanger - fsyn(channel-3) - sfile (dp 128)

46 2 freeze - harmo (dp 167)

47 2freeze (dp 179)

48 freeze - flanger - 2harmo (dp 184)

49 2freeze - flanger - 2harmo (dp 188)

50 2harmo - 2flanger (dp 192 2)

51 2harmo - 2flanger - 2filtres (dp 193)

52 filter - freeze - sfile (dp 205)

53 harmo (dp 229)

54 harmo(voix) (dp 246)

55 harmo(voix) - 2sfile (dp 258)

57 2freeze(voix) (dp 315)

58 freeze(voix) freeze(cl) freeze(alto) (dp 342)

60 freeze(tr) freeze(cl) freeze(alto) - 2harmo - sfile (dp367)

61 3freeze(voix) - harmo(voix) - sfile (dp 426)

62 3freeze(voix) - sfile (dp 436)

63 3freeze(voix) freeze(cl) freeze(alto)freeze(tr) filter (dp 448)

64 2freeze(voix) (dp 492)

69 fsyn(accs) (dp 513)

70 sfile - filter (dp 527)

71 sfile (dp 528)

72 sfile - fsyn(hoquette)(dp 535)

73 fsyn(hits-multi) - voice(spat)(dp 555)

76 fsyn(passacaille) - voice(spat) (dp 580)

77 sfile (dp 614)

78 sfile - filter(sfile?) (dp 618)

79 freeze(voice) - filter(sfile?) - sfile (dp 660)

Midi Mixer : Midi Controllers

ctlin 7 , midi channels 1 to 7

1 :: gain-in (voice)

2 :: stretchs-out

3 :: harms-out

4 :: flangs-out

5 :: fsyns-out

6 :: filters-out

7 :: sfiles-out

Keys-Shortcuts on Macintosh keyboard :

• Space :next event
  
• ALL :aiff soundfiles
  
• on/off
  

PS:

The folder Etymo/doc contains also several informations about past concerts/technical rider/console patch etc...

Stage Setup