Well, I think Stewart's animus against laptops is that most laptop performances involves people staring at computer screens -- i.e. zero charisma, and in some cases, people doing absolutely nothing truly live. I've seen my share of people doing 'live' sets with the equivalent of Winamp.
Stewart's sets are to some extent pre-sequenced, in that his MPC is full of patterns, but he is constantly reacting to the audience and context in how the set flows. To some extent he could transfer everything he does, including his method of constructing his sets, to Ableton Live. Fred Giannelli has done basically that, and he and Stewart are friends. But people work the way they want to work -- farbeit from me to criticize his results. I still don't know how to make a live electronic set truly dynamic. My solution is to improvise it all live with live loop sampling. People can see me play guitar, sing, play percussion, rip paper, talk, and it all goes through the computer and I mess with it. Really I'd like to get more people involved, playing instruments and such, but it's hard finding people who can improvise and play off of others well. On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Adam Jay wrote: > > it also puts me further away from the "all laptop Live PA" stigma, and > the last thing i need is to be hated by the Stewart Walker massive. > (though what is the difference between sequencing sounds live on a $1200 > mpc than sequencing sounds live on a $1200 laptop ?) > > however if you CAN get Ableton to function properly with programs like > Reason, then the VST capabilities become amazing. > > -adam jay >
