What's a good setup
The way I write music is usually to start on a single element: an idea, a piano gimmick,a cool pattern or some sample. My goal is to have my setup ready for me to record music and video whenever I want to capture this unit. I don't want to only have a demo that I can go back to at some point because I know that it never happens. Basically, I want to press a button and have a good music and video recording that I can put out to the world and move onto something new.
examples of good setups
https://x.com/PicturesFoIder/status/1869601972980011288 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST918Cxv8HM
My setup
Elements and how they're routed
I think I know pretty much how I want it to be.
- Music comes from supercollider and my Yamaha Arius ...
- The Piano audio is routed to supercollider through my sound card
- The Piano gets midi messages from supercollider
Now I also want to control a connected bulb with supercollider and record all of this. For the light part, I already have a working prototype of node server that gets messages from supercollider and send them to the bulb.
For the video I don't have any idea yet and I need to do some tests.
- Maybe I can use an old smartphone as a remote webcam ? Eventually, I'll have to add the audio recording from supercollider to the video recording before uploading it to the Internet.
Also, I need a physical setup: I need to find an elegant way to stuck my keyboards, soundcard and laptop on top of my piano.
- Cable management
- Schema
- Shelf for keyboards ?
Simplicity
Ideally, I'd like to run a single command to have all the required programs (supercollider, node and video) running and to press a button to start the recording of a take.
Maybe it could all start from supercollider:
- supercollider gets a MIDI message
- supercollider starts recording audio
- supercollider sends an OSC message to start recording video
Then we could do the same to end the recording