That Orange thing appears to just be a mono USB interface with a high impedance input and output. They seem pretty confident that it will run on anything so it's probably standard compliant. Which is nice.However: it's16 bits, which sucks. Especially if it's going to live on a tweaker's guitar pedal board, where huge and unpredictable volume swings are the norm. That's 1/256th the (theoretical) dynamic range of every other audio interface one would consider in 2018.If it costs more than 20 or 30 bucks I'd look elsewhere.

MPrado wrote:I've just discovered this and looks awesome: https://orangeamps.com/news/orange-ampl ... -teleport/https://orangeamps.com/omec-teleport/welp, if this thing works with MaxMSP it could be quite nifty. Quick google doesn't reveal much yet. I'm guessing since it uses generic drivers, software compatibility might be an issue with certain apps...

I could see it if you were a session player. Live, depends on the music/gig.Shit, ~15 years ago one of the hot session guitar players in Nashville used to bring in his tower PC and he just played through whatever plugins were around at the time.

Since we've started incorporating keyboards in my new band, the drummer asked me if I have any synth modules, since he has a full-size midi control keyboard at home if we wanted to use that. And I was like, well, you've got a phone right? Amazing what you can do with a phone these days (anything).

Two things to keep in mind you will want to send stereo XLR to the PA if you have an amp set up you will need it in stereo to get the advantage of your plugins. I generally am just using my amp as a monitor so it is not really a part the audience mix and let the PA do the work because running it through the amps kind of coarsens the sound if you are going for a lot of detail.Remember, that you need to go in your preferences before the show and turn off sleep and power saving. Either of these going off during a performance is going to fuck you and you will lose signal and have the joy of logging back in to your laptop mid show.In the old days I would use my DAW for the live thing and set up Tracks with the processing I wanted and use and chose the next track to change the setting. Now days if I use a laptop the software is Live Stage in Logic which is built for that purpose (for live mixing or DJs). I also did this when I had to do some Keyboard stuff as well. Mostly if it is some kind of jam or sit in I just use my phone a lot as unlike you I just need something and the phone/pad is around. I am the operator of my pocket calculator. Certainly a lot of the keyboard stuff on the phone is really top notch and being able to build midi controllers in software on the pad to control a couple at a time is useful to me. A big plus is that it lets people see my kick ass threads.Unless I am being requested to do stunt guitar work which is kinda normal ( I can pretty much get by with a overdrive distortion and echo.The Eventide delays are of course pretty great but one of my favorites on the stomp is the Resonator stuff is pretty interesting to use with other effects and has a lot of different uses depending on placement.

I am glad if I can be of any help. There are so many people here and I have learned so much I hope I can contribute some.A lot of this stuff I have picked up myself or from helpful friends and soundmen and since computers are so much a part of our daily lives it is a bit odd that there is not more out there about this.Was at a Merzbow show over 10 years ago when he would just show up with his laptop. The show ended when the stage monitors were smoking. The sound man said that it had to do with the computer output being the headphone jack. So a lot of solutions have come along since the early adopters like Merzbow.Anyway I have been super excited about the Bluetooth midi stuff lately since I got a korg nano keyboard. It is pretty new stuff especially now that I can now retrofit old midi stuff. I am using the Yamaha Bluetooth thing above to retrofit a old Yamaha wind synth controller I got in a flea market so I can use it to control iPhone apps. Which as I think will be fun or at least weird to explore because I am utterly incompetent on wind instruments.

Big John wrote:A second post chock full of knowledgeFM Big John, thank you for dropping the science twice in this thread. So much for me to think about here.

Anthony Flack wrote:Nate Dort wrote:16 bits gives you 96 dB of dynamic range. That's almost certainly greater than most guitar amplifiers.As far as looking cool goes, I recommend doing whatever you damn well please and be Through Being Cool. Besides, if what you are doing is cool, then however you look while you're doing it is cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWRst2jOhWsis trent rezone doing something like this in the above clip?skip to just past 4:30edit to fix the autocorrect but changed my mind because trent rezone is seriously cracking me up.

Virtually a non-issue;What you needed from a guitar amp was the speaker cabinet. An amplifier that accepts an 1/8 aux input would enable you to play your laptop soundcard with a celestion 4x12 guitar speaker cabinet. A PC sound-card with an Instrument cable? You might have trouble finding hi-z OUTPUT. You needed an amp that has auxillary input.