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    Do you play live?

    in Music Making and Production/Industry

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    It's difficult in our genre, but it's feasable. Check out GadgetG's live sets, he's awesome! :)

     

    If you go the hardware way, what you need to do is have a central hardware sequencer with lots of note sequences well organized, that you prepare carefully beforehand, and then you play your sequences one after the other in parallel for every track, sending the notes internally and to a few hardware synths. Good sequencers are the Yamaha RS-7000, the Roland MC-808 and MC-909 (and possibly the Elektron Octatrack and the Akai MPC-5000). Then you need a mixing desk, and a few desktop effects such as the Korg Kaossillator.

     

    You can also mix live using a computer (and possibly hardware synths or VSTIs), in this case, you could use a DAW (e.g. use Cubase's arranger panel, or use Ableton Live's clips in the Scene view), and send the sequences to the hardware/software synths.

     

    There are many challenges, you have to keep your notes within a specific scale, or the mix may sound awkward, the sound levels have to be well balanced also. As you play live, i.e. in real time, there's no way to mix like you would do in a studio narrowing down a specific instrument to leave room to another, fine-tuning, polishing, etc...So the quality is never going to be as good as a final studio mixdown, but the result can be quite interesting, though.

     

     

    Old-school track

    in Music Making and Production/Industry

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    Om Shanti :rolleyes:

    Here's the excerpt of a track I took part in, with Colin from O.O.O.D a week ago.

     

     

    It's old-school, (I love the old-school style), there's a whole bunch of VSTIs in use, and some hardware synths (SH-101, Nord Modular) as well. Lots of VST effect racks used as well. The sample is taken from a TED conference. Hope you like it :blush:

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