Audio setup

Software presentation

The instrumentist follows a visual click-track in order to synchronise with the electronic part. The score is displayed with the click-track on a screen. The pages of the score are automatically changed by the click-track. The display is done by a slave computer which is linked to the main computer by an ethernet connection.

A control surface should be used in order to mix the electronic treatments and the soundfiles.

SCORE/CLICK-TRACK DISPLAY:

installation:

Warning: the fullpath of the folder 'animusII-laptop' should not have any spaces, otherwise the shell scripts for score display will not run.

Copy the folder 'animusII-laptop' on the hard disk of the computer that displays the score and the click-track.

Launch max/msp and open the file 'animusII-laptop'.

Initialisation of the laptop display:

Instal "Adobe Reader 8 Installer" (the installer is in the folder "animusII/animusII-laptop/").

Open the score 'ANIMUS2 DEF.pdf'

Open the patch animusII-laptop-800*600 in max. 

Adapt the pdf size and the max patches to fit the entire screen.

Choose a manual ip adress for the computer and connect it to the main computer with an ethernet cable.

MAIN COMPUTER:

installation:

Copy the folder 'animusII-max' on the hard disk of the main computer.

Launch max/msp, and select this folder (and only this one) in the 'file preferences' menu of max/msp.

You need to use ftm 'FTM.2.5.0.BETA.20-Max5' to play the click-track. This library is provided in the folder 'animusII/animusII-max/externals.

Check that ftm is correctly installed.

Open the file 'animusII' in max-msp.

Patch presentation:

The concert patch is composed of:

- Top right: interface for events triggering and click-track playing. Events are represented by a number corresponding to the bar number reported in the instrumental score. The highlighted number corresponds to the next event that will be triggered. During rehearsal, you can play click-trak from anywhere: select the bar/beat in the click-track panel, then start click-track).

- Top middle: main sub-patchers (audio, midi, libraries, events counter, reset, matrix connections).                      

- Bottom: live mixing faders.

Inputs/Outputs:

There is 1 input for the alto.

There are 6 outputs for live electronics and soundfiles (dac 1..6 resp. on loudspeakers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6).

Initialisation in max/msp:

To initialize the patch:

1. Click on '1-load files'

2. Click on '2-config' (figure 'midi-config') and select yhte midi input/output of 'mixette' in order to config your MIDI setup for the control surface (for mixing of adc, sfiles, samplor, harm and gran). You can access to the routing of midi channels by clicking on 'mixette' (picture 'midi-mixing-control').

Choose a manual ip adress for the computer and provide the ip adress of the laptop displaying the score and the click-track.

Save the main patch.

The configurations will be saved even if you quit max.

3. click on '3-init' and wait for the message 'ok bang' in the max message window.                        

The bar/beat position on the displaying computer should automatically be set to '-2 1'. If not, check the udp connection between the two computers.

4. turn the DSP on                        

Performance instructions

Initialise the max/msp patch, turn the dac on.

Start the click-track in max. The click-track starts 2 bars before bar 1.

On bar 1 beat 1, you have to manually trigger a soundfile (there is a bang button in the main patch for that). The important thing is to be synchronous with the instrumentist, not with the click-track.

Then, follow the soundfiles and the electronic treatments (harmonizer, samplor, granulator). The electronic should be at least as loud as the instrumentist.