I am building what I am calling the “Dream Maschine” which is my dream setup that is hybrid Looper/Guitar and Trumpet player/DJ/producer/live-stream & live-music series recording system. It is being built into a bicycle trailer with a super quiet inverter generator, and is pulled by an extremely powerful custom electric bike. The “main brain” is a road case box that will open and two single-armed platforms, both together make up the first top layer, and the arms lift and swing the two halves of the first layer out to each side. One side with traktor, the other side my two audiointerfaces. The bottom main layer is the Maschine plus, and the top-inside of the box holds my Machine Jam. My microphones come out and I put them on the stands that I have bolted into the hull of the trailer outside panels, along with my microKORG and my M32 Komplete keyboard, and a little Numark party DJ controller for a little fun, and if I have a guest DJ to perform with me as well. My mixer is a Yamaha mx102c, which I then have a Rig Kontrol 3, of course my laptop, a multi-port, with optional usage of BOTH my S49 keyboards, the mk2 integrated with the plus, and of course the mk3 hooked in Kontrol, and Everything else. Since I have to use my laptop to run traktor, guitar rig, Maschine 2 (and soon 3), I have a few questions:
- Should I run all stereo-applicable hardware stereo? Or should I save wires and go mono if possible?
- How exactly would you guys route everything (I’ll list everything in the bottom)
- This is being built to be able to fit inside my home recording studio as the brain, unplug a couple things, and hook up the bike, and within minutes haul ass to a gig, show, event, pop-up rave or party, travel to local festivals to perform, New Orleans Saints games tailgating parties, the possibilities are endless. Any tips to make this easier?
- Should I go big or go home if in case of other artists I play with and build on as much as possible? Or should I bring it down to as little as I can to get the job done? Something what looks like in the middle? Or modular and make it easily attachable and removable piece by piece? And if so, how should I route it in that nature?
- I am mainly doing electronic music, kind of like GRiZ meets ZHU as far as I play trumpet, guitar, but I also sing and rap so I do hip-hop and mix the two with multiple genres (Reggae, Jazz, Funk, House, Dubstep, and more!) should I be tackling A TON of music to add to my DJ set list to choose from? Or should I keep it within the parameters of only what I need for my original music created on the plus to be mixed with certain relevant music of today?
- (Kudos if you’ve gone this far in my post) tell me what all of you think of my idea, I am also starting from scratch on knowledge around all this new hardware and software. I have like 3 months in on the Plus and Native instruments hardware and software but I am a professional trained trumpet player so the only learning curve I am having is production and mixing skills. DJing is a sinch for me for what I need it for, so I’m pretty sure I can learn traktor pro easily.
- Does my little comedic numark controller have the ability to run with my x1 mk3 in traktor pro? Is it worth having for guest DJ sets?
- Any and all help, advice, tips, knowledge, and application or even FABRICATION or MOTIVATION for this extremely intricate undertaking is unfortunately not exciting enough for Native Instruments to yet offer me AT LEAST Komplete 15 electronic and whatever solid software they could possibly sponsor me with to make this undertaking possible (free subscription to 360 pro or even a free serial number for Komplete 14 or 15 select or standard! Anything NI Team COMEON! I am going to be filming pretty much every single thing I do from here on out and I’m building this thing around A NASTY AMOUNT of NI hardware! I cannot afford any software anytime soon, I went super hard on hardware, maybe too hard, if I don’t hear from Native Instruments about some sort of software assistance, I’ll probably sell my mk3 keyboard to get whatever bundle I can purchase with the money I get for that.) Boris! I KNOW YOU CAN THROW ME SOME SORT OF BONE HERE! You know I am requiring a lot! Anything helps. Even guitar rig 7 pro would be a game changer!
- Should I get a second laptop or upgrade my current one to handle the load of Maschine, Traktor, Komplete, Native Access, and Guitar Rig with all those USB-able hardware pieces? Or is windows 10 pro with a 2.8ghz quad core with 16GB RAM and 2 TB drive with a portable 1 TB SSD and a 512Gb SD card in the plus going to be enough to run it all in parallel?
10. THE LIST OF STUFF
-laptop
-Maschine Plus
-Maschine Jam
-Traktor X1 mk3
-Komplete M32
-KK S49 mk2
-KK S49 mk3
-Yamaha MX201c mixing console
-Presonus audiobus 96 2 channels interface
-MODX Audii Interface 4 channels
-microKORG
-Bose S1 Pro
-Mackie THUMP GO
-a single QSC K12.2 Goldface
-Rig Kontrol 3 guitar pedal
-Behringer Ultra-Curve Pro
-numark micro Party DJ controller
-Roland Octapad (oh yeah, how can I hook this into a drum group on Maschine? Possible?
-M-VAVE Chocolate MIDI pedal
-2 dynamic mics
-Korean remake of a 80’s telecaster
-Korean remake of a 80’s Stratocaster
-my beautiful Bach Stradivarius 37star custom silver Trumpet 2019 model big bell
-2500 watt inverter generator
-2500watt 48volt e-bike/mad-max custom motorbike I built from the ground up with a 40Ah battery and a 38Amp controller (super strong, dual motor, super fast!)
-bicycle trailer large enough to fit 2 children
-all the software that I have that comes with the instruments mentioned.
THATS IT! Anybody want to try and tackle this big old monster of a post, I’m sure that everybody is going to be blunt and straight forward and honest, and I’m ready for all of it, this thing is basically my life’s work to make worth of my last youthful decade (I’m 36 now, so yeah, only a decade of any sort of youth left, this is my last attempt at a “Good Ole Shot” with everything I know)
in any other case, wish me luck, this means everything to me so yeah, I’m gonna need it!