Morning folks

Last night I played a little bit on my hybrid setup to practice for the event on 2/22. At a certain point a VST plugin on my Mac stopped working and Ableton crashed completely.

No problem - luckily my audio interface has a direct monitor feature so I was able to continue playing seamlessly the remaining hardware without restarting Ableton.

So I still had almost 40 minutes of fun with the trilogy of Lyra-8, Cosmos and Big Sky. The Vermona is played from the Mac and was lost due to the crash.

I have it in the setup simply because I thought I had to offer something melodic in the live set. But after the Lyra-8 only session I'm inclined to abandon the Perfourmer / Ableton combo completely and play the 40 minutes exclusively with this instrument. Right now, the Lyra-8 is processed with compression and limiter through the DAW but as my Sound system has a build-in limiter this should not be the show stopper.

I've wanted to do that for a long time but it's a very logical step - the music isn't necessarily pleasing or easy to consume. But I love it!