Of course there’s already a topic about sharing your studio setups with Hapax, but with Hapax being around for a while now I’m pretty curious to hear and see from people about using their Hapax in a live situation.
Live situations are where gear’s being put to the test, how sturdy/reliable/intuitive something actually is. So I would love to see photos and hear about experiences here!
I’ve only played a few times live with the Hapax so far, but each time was pretty rad (no crashes/bugs). The most interesting was where I played at Defcon in August a few different nights in different configurations. I played opening night (weather forced us indoors) with my kosmo stuff (first image). I played a few other nights, but most notably with a few other friends (second picture). I had never played with any of them before, but the Hapax handled some sequences I had ready and the syncing across other modular setups and a Pulsar. We even had a random dude show up with a guitar and jacked that in.
I packed it in a backpack with the decksaver on it. It’s trivial to set up with just a power supply and a midi cable or two. As for reliability, there are a few issues with software, but for all the shows I played, I was on a stable enough version to not have any issues. It’s feeling pretty solid at this point. I heavily rely on being able to use projects simultaneously and never had problems with that.
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