Rakarrack Live!

The Rakarrack Harmonizer effect in a live band situation. With the help of a Boss FS-5U footswitch used as a MIDI sustain pedal for my M-Audio Oxygen8 v2 I can switch the Harmonizer effect on or off. My guitar is connected to a Edirol UA-25 and the line output is in its turn connected to a Digitech Jamman to 'reamp' the signal for my amp (a London City DEA130, a Marshall Super Bass clone from the '70's). The guitar used is a Fender Telecaster from the '70's also.

Video and audio are recorded with a Sony digital camera, hence the crappy quality. I wanted to record the audio with QTractor but using Rakarrack and QTractor at once was just a bit too much for my netbook. So I had to use the digital camera for the audio also. Next time I'll try a more lightweight recording solution, like timemachine.

The video is edited with OpenShot. The excerpt itself is part of a spontaneous jam with my band Soda P. As soon as I turned on the Harmonizer effect this inkling emerged.

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Music

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• Rakarrack
• Live
• JACK
• Ubuntu
• Karmic
• Koala
• 9.10
• realtime
• kernel
• Edirol
• UA-25
• M-Audio
• Oxygen8
• IceWM
• Audio
• Connection
• Kit
• Guitar
• Rig
• alternative

[echelecopao]

How is the latency with this setup?

Does it have to be a special sound card? do you need to run a real-time linux kernel?

[AutoStatic3000]

@echelecopao Latency was set at 8ms I think, or maybe 4ms. I used an Edirol UA-25 which is a USB soundcard that has guitar inputs. In order to achieve a system latency below 10ms on this netbook I had to use a real-time kernel.

[nickleus1977]

cool, hadnt heard about rakarrack before, i'll check it out, thanks. i like the music too =) are you in a band?

[AutoStatic3000]

@nickleus1977 Thanks! And yes, I'm in several bands. In this case I was rehearsing with Soda P (search YouTube for Soda P tourdiary pt.2).

[AutoStatic3000]

That's ok Louigi, the vid shows Rakarrack being used in a very conventional way and the music itself is just us fooling around a bit. I'm eager to know how you use it, I have the idea you layer more, as in using multiple instances.

[LouigiVerona]

@analyzingfunny I do use them, but I use them in a different way. You are free to venture to my profile and look at my latest video which shows how I use Rakarrack with a vocoder.

[analyzingfunny]

@LouigiVerona YOU dont impress me much. You are a fool to NOT see the possibilities this has to offer. rock on dude~

[LouigiVerona]

Somehow does not impress me. I guess it is because, as an electronic musician, I tend to use things not in a way they were designed ))) So my Rakarrack sounds very differently. I will have to make a recording of how I work with it.