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So I've been slacking in the music department the past couple of weeks, and upon checking my emails I was kind of surprised to see one from a fellow that invited me to play a local show he was setting up. This would be a perfect chance to show off some of the techniques I was talking about in a previous post regarding improvising tracks live, but actually setting it up on stage would require a bit of tweaking to make everything flow smoothly and I thought it was worth collecting some feedback on the most efficient way to do so!
The actual performance aspect of the music comes from an Organelle, which is basically a small synth that you can program to do pretty much whatever you want. In this instance I use it as a looper that change both the pitch and speed of a 30 second excerpt from a song, as well as change the start and end time within that sample. This works well for the ambient ecco-jams kind of thing I'm going for, but in a live setting I need a way to create fluid transitions and in order to load each sample I need 30 seconds of downtime to actually load the samples. That being said, my plan is to have a second device that can play pad / drone sounds to fill in the empty space as well as small synth to play some simple chords to break up the monotony a bit.
So essentially this idea could be summarized as having two alternating parts, one loading samples and manipulating the speed / pitch to perform the actual tracks while the other would act as a transitional tool to move between the songs. The gear that I'm looking at is as follows;
- Organelle (main instrument)
- Tablet / Laptop (for pad / drone sounds)
- Volca FM (synth for transitional pieces)
- Volca Mix (3-Channel mixer for the units listed above)
- Midi Controller for the FM
- Various Effect Pedals
That's sort of what I'm looking at right now, but I'm interested to hear suggestions on other methods of setting this up. Any ideas?
The actual performance aspect of the music comes from an Organelle, which is basically a small synth that you can program to do pretty much whatever you want. In this instance I use it as a looper that change both the pitch and speed of a 30 second excerpt from a song, as well as change the start and end time within that sample. This works well for the ambient ecco-jams kind of thing I'm going for, but in a live setting I need a way to create fluid transitions and in order to load each sample I need 30 seconds of downtime to actually load the samples. That being said, my plan is to have a second device that can play pad / drone sounds to fill in the empty space as well as small synth to play some simple chords to break up the monotony a bit.
So essentially this idea could be summarized as having two alternating parts, one loading samples and manipulating the speed / pitch to perform the actual tracks while the other would act as a transitional tool to move between the songs. The gear that I'm looking at is as follows;
- Organelle (main instrument)
- Tablet / Laptop (for pad / drone sounds)
- Volca FM (synth for transitional pieces)
- Volca Mix (3-Channel mixer for the units listed above)
- Midi Controller for the FM
- Various Effect Pedals
That's sort of what I'm looking at right now, but I'm interested to hear suggestions on other methods of setting this up. Any ideas?