USB Streaming and Polyend Play plus for full control over all tracks in a live performance

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The Polyend Play + is a great piece of gear. Building on the legacy of the Play, the plus adds a ton of great features including Stereo Samples, 3 synthesizer engines, as well as USB Streaming. I think that USB streaming may be a slept on feature as it not only allows you to multitrack record your preformances on the Play, but it also gives you the ability to use your DAW as a mixer for your liver performances, which is HUGE.
Why am i so escited about that? Well, the Play doesnt have a mixer that you can access on board which means all of the paramters are per sample, so they can't be continuously swept, AND if you want to adjust a single track's volume, you have to do that on each pattern which is just plain time consuming. USB streaming fixes that by giving you 28 individual outputs to play with.
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27 апр 2024

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@dtrelzmusic 15 дней назад

How do you created an tutorial and display the i/o in the middle of the video??!

@sentokan Месяц назад

Can the effects be tweaked or they are just fixed (on/off)?

@samprock 2 месяца назад

PP+ seems introduces artifacts for me when USB to DAW. Like if sample rate is too low and system choking. My Live 12 project is not busy, tracks are frozen. Any sample rate. It’s on M1 Studio which is hard to overload really. Any know-how making it smooth?

@alx-106 2 месяца назад

Unfortunately I can’t be of much help troubleshooting. My m1 Mac mini didn’t love it but my m2 MacBook Pro is working great…

@samprock 2 месяца назад

@@alx-106 That's indeed the answer 😎 If you felt something off on M1, it can be something off with my M1 Studio Ultra.

@maikvanrossum 2 месяца назад

How would you incorporate a ‘standard’ channel mixer into a pick-and-place concept…? Because one could have multiple different sounds / samples on one track or lane. I guess the same problem occurs when streaming and mixing in the DAW like you do here, or do you get a separate stream / channel per sample or instrument…? Otherwise, if #Polyend wants to solve this problem, every step should have a ‘send to audio bus’ setting by which you could route the sample or synth to an overall mixer with at least 8 channels. STEMS and streams should obey those channel routings, too. You also use MIDI in your demo, which I think works a little different as your external gear could have separate outputs.

@alx-106 2 месяца назад

I think there could still be a per track master mixer that would let you just change it as soon as you hear it. Chances are if I need to turn a track down, everything on the track needs to come down. Granularity is nice, but just a quick adjust over the track is what I am used to. The Midi stuff is helpful for sure for getting tracks. As you could see, I grouped a lot of stuff coming out of the play anyway, but having access to individual tracks is awesome for effects, sweepable filters, and quick adjustments for the room in a live environment.

@maikvanrossum 2 месяца назад

@@alx-106 yes, I totally agree on a master mixer. But if they would implement it, then hopefully in way that would preserve the flexibility of the Play sequencer, so not degrading it to ‘standard’ tracks.

@GahlordDewald 2 месяца назад

Why do use modular at all in this setup? The polyend play sort of does what the Assimil8or does and Bitwig could probably do whatever else is going on right? This is a genuine question not trying to be a twerp.

@alx-106 2 месяца назад

Mainly just interface and comfortability. Bitwig could really do everything but I’d rather use the play’s button interface and the Pizza for the same… assimil8or helps keep channel count down and such as well.

@effiksmusic 2 месяца назад

@@alx-106also just curious, why is your modular hardware setup getting smaller? Is it also because of space and transportation? Bitwig for mixing is a cool idea so.

@GahlordDewald 2 месяца назад

@@effiksmusic I can’t speak for Alx but as someone who gets on an airplane with musical instruments many times each year, I can say that the in-cabin luggage lottery is getting really insane. I’m at the point where flying business class is the only option that feels relatively safe in terms of getting an instrument to a show w/o checking it. Getting the instruments physically smaller for travel reasons is the only way forward.

@alx-106 2 месяца назад

@@effiksmusic It's mostly an experiement at this moment to push myself in different directions and learn the ins and outs of other gear. I am also trying to figure out the perfect sweet spot for traveling. I fly a lot and am commonly at the back of the boarding line where they ask people to check their roller bags. I have actually never had any trouble with my 6U 104 HO Submodular case, even in these last one on situations, but the anxiety is real and I am looking for good solutions that I can recommend to others. This video likely isnt the way I'll do things as I really do miss Metron and Voltera even though Play is like 80% there... But for people that are using the Play already, I wanted to show how the USB streaming is working and hopefully give some itdeas along the way.

@alx-106 2 месяца назад

@@GahlordDewald I fly a ton too, and am mostly in the later boarding groups so I am looking for backpack solutions to qualm my anxiety for sure. Another thing I just remembered about this is that I'm trying to make my system small so I fit on any table for any gig without causing any issue for the venue or other performers. Space has been a concern for the duo with Trovarsi, so anything I can do to sneak onto a crowded table is good right now.