In the 80s/90s, a friend of mine went around doing solo-gigs with his background music sequenced. He then took a 20 year break and has just gotten back into music and is looking to downsize the amount of equipment required for his live gigs. I, myself, am not a musician, but I know a fair amount about computers and am trying to figure out a way to convert his tower of equipment down to a laptop and whatever else would be required.
His current setup consists of a few different sound modules being fed data from an Alesis DataDisk that he loads 3.25" floppy disks into; I've attached a picture of his tower of equipment and what each part does...
I'm curious to know if there's anyone who'd be able to help me get all of his sequences transferred to something like Ableton Live and have it using the same sounds as he's used to. I know I could just play the sequence and record the audio output of the main sequence on one channel and the timing track on another channel, then feed one channel to the mains and the other to the monitors... but I'm looking for a way to keep the flexibility of having the sequence and sounds in an editable format.
I have Abletone Live, a Scarlett 2i4 (2nd Gen), and a USB floppy disk drive... I just need some guidance on how to get the MIDI data and the sounds from the Roland M32, ESQ-M, etc. into Ableton Live - assuming it's possible?
Equipment Tower
