Do you do this editting on the fly while live or just make adjustment later. I guess could always save mixes and can redo. Was just curious. Thanks much for response. Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: John Fioravanti To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 6:38 PM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: some opinions Hi: The advantage to midi, if you consider it an advantage, is that you can edit it if you find that certain parts are too loud etc. Once you do an MP3, it's done. Of course, some people here use them and it's probably the best way to go. But midi is easier to change once you've heard it on stage. John ----- Original Message ----- From: Dave Hillebrandt To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 6:21 PM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: some opinions I can see a lot of advantages in having a laptop on stage but understand what you mean in regards to the pc doing all of the work. I would like to take that just a step further as wonder why some choose to have computers play drum machines and synths via midi rather than simply recording the parts and playing along to an mp3. I realize some do that as well but just wondering the advantage of using the midi verses recording parts and making an mp3 out of it to play with. Would think that having extra midi stuff would take up more room than an mp3 player if you aren't actually playing all of the parts. Thanks for any input as curious to hear opinions. Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: Steve Wicketts To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 11:05 AM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: some opinions Hi Omar, I personally don't like lap tops on stage. People see a computer and instantly think that the computer is doing all of the work. On all songs, I put 1 bar of drum hits or rhythm for my personal recognition just so I know straight away which song is set up, this way the audience don't suddenly hear a familiar beginning of a recognisable song. Steve W ----- Original Message ----- From: Omar Binno To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 2:47 PM Subject: [ddots-l] some opinions Hello, I'm going to start gigging live soon and wanted to hear some thoughts. I'll be using a Motif ES6 to play midi sequences. My question is: if my band performs around 30 songs a night, would it be more efficient to just use the motif's playback capabilities to run the sequenced files, or would it be more beneficial to use a laptop to handle the operation? Thank you for all input. OMAR BINNO WEBSITE: www.bigoproductions.net AIM: LOD1116 SKYPE: obinno1 __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 6485 (20110922) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com