Music from last week's gig

[Gert van Santen]

Jonny Stutters schreef:
> On 21 April 2010 02:28, Michael Zacherl. <mubar04 at blauwurf.at> wrote:
>> Since we talked a lot about setup etc. recently, could you elaborate what your setuo was for this gig?
>> Mixer, controller etc.?
> 
> Sure can.  Most of the control is done using an eight page system on
> the Launchpad.  It's built around a step sequencer.  The first page
> shows all the steps for all four tracks with sub-pages for each of the
> 8 notes (everything's locked to a scale for convenience).  The second
> page allows for placing of sequence restart triggers so that the four
> sequences can be run at different lengths for polyrhythmic stuff -
> currently I'm not making use of this because I haven't figured out a
> way to get everything back into step again when I'm done with it.
> Page 3 controls a four bar loop of global transpose.  Pages 4 and 5
> are for step sequenced CCs (16 steps, 2 CC channels per instrument).
> Page 6 is another view of the note sequence but uses the whole display
> for a single track (it's handy for quickly entering chords or just
> thinking in a different way).  Page 7 uses all the buttons as a big
> playable keyboard so that I can enter patterns that cover more than
> one octave, play solos etc.  Also there's access to a loop recorder
> for each channel.  Page 8 has controls for the mixer and transpose by
> octave for each channel.  Phew.
> 
> Additionally there are four pages of knobs on the MiniCommand (one
> page per synth) there's a looper available for each page that will
> record and playback two bars of knob movements.
> 
> The only external mixing is being done on a Motu Ultralite which
> receives the output from the MachineDrum, mixes it with the computer
> output and sends it to the PA.  Level control  of all the melodic
> stuff is done in SuperCollider before it gets to the soundcard.
> 
> The things I'd like to add are an arpeggiator to get some notes at
> faster than step rate and mix level effects (compression, reverb,
> filter, bitcrush/sample rate reduction).  The second one's easy enough
> but I'm not sure how to do the interface for the arpeggiator at the
> moment.
> 
> Congratulations to anyone who managed to read this far!  It's a lot
> easier to play and demonstrate in the flesh than it is to describe - I
> keep meaning to document it on video but I need a tripod or a
> cameraperson before I can do that.

I appreciate the fact that you are finding new ways of working. 
For now, I am not completely overthrown by the musical result, 
but I definitely liked listening to it, and there are some really 
good parts.

Thanks for sharing all this with us :-)

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