So: I have the Focusrite racked up in our live rig now here at Snaxodrome II. The useful little bastard has four pairs of stereo outs, and I've put them to good use. Outs 3-4 are feeding the 01V all the happy horseshit we can't be arsed with playing live- drum machines, softsynths, random noises, washy pads and the like. Output 5 is feeding the 01V a click track.
Now, the nifty bit with the 01V is that in addition to the main and monitor mixes, the aux sends can be used to create four separate monitor mixes with full preset control and automation! A different mix for everyone for every song? Totally do-able. So three monitor mixes feed Sennheiser wireless IEM systems and a fourth feeds a Samson headphone amp behind the drum kit, as the drummer can get away with a wired system. And he can have as much or as little click as he needs as it's on its own channel on the board.
For the time being, we daisy-chained all the MIDI stuff- Prophet, Kurzweil, Roland sampler, the MIDI stuff in the guitar rigs (Diezel, TC, Eventide)- off the Focusrite's MIDI out. We don't need that many channels anyway. But it changes our patches for us, fires off sequences and samples and whatever else we need it to do.
This is all running off a Mac Mini at the bottom of the rack. (Snow Leopard/Logic 8, FWIW. We're planning on upgrading to 9 in the near future.) Which will in the very near future be feeding a Enntec DMXIS to run our lights properly and an Epson projector. All off one Logic file, too. A whopping five tracks.
...oh, and outputs 1 & 2 of the Focusrite are feeding the poweramp for the monitors, with the other Firewire port connected to the recording rig. These, necessarily, will not go with us.
Truly, we are Captains Of Industry.
