Wow. You try to rise up, and they keep trying
to knock you back down...
That's interesting, but I think you may have that
certain artist confused with someone else, like
the kind of 'artist' that rolls up to Forans with
a yamaha md-8 track minidisc player and some
effects boxes playing 100% pre-recorded tracks
with some live effects added in. Hell, why press
play on your sequencer when you can set the
mini-disc player to 'mislead-the-crowd' while
pretending to get dubby on the F/X?
I'm seeing the pot, but the kettle's not black.
Though, I can understand why you wouldn't want to
put forth the effort-- what, with only ten people
there and all. Of course, I wasn't one of them...
Anyway, all hypocrisy aside:::
I don't know about the artist you were referring to
but if I were to walk away from my set midstream it
would just get caught in the same loop, over and over,
without evolution...
caught in the same loop, over and over,
without evolution...
caught in the same loop, over and over,
without evolution...
--and that would be very boring, in about 10 seconds.
Lets just say that *I* am the only one with firsthand
experience over the controls of my sets, and with
regard to whatever illusion you may have to the
contrary:
1) my mixer settings would not survive from one track
to the next. Yes, it is difficult being the entire
band, as well as the sound engineer--who most 'normal'
bands have the luxury of having someone off stage
controlling the mixer for them--during a performance
but that's what a live electronic P.A. is all about.
I'm up to the challenge, and fully partake.
2) The cutoff frequency on the Junos are assigned
to the mod-wheel and that is what I tweaked on them
when I used them in my sets, which I don't anymore
because they are big, bulky, and I didn't want to
carry them around everywhere, especially with my
gigs becoming more frequent. You have to be careful
with vintage gear you know...
Besides the Junos, my synths, synth modules, drum
synths, and sampler are fully tweakable, which I
take full advantage of in my sets.
3) The Kawai Q80 may be a song based sequencer for
most people, but when I had it I used it as a loop
based sequencer. I've never been known to simply
use my gear just like Joe RTFM down the street.
Actually my entire set barely took up the space on
a disc of one two-minute song's midi data. No, each
loop, as I said before, and was true then just as
it is now, was only 4 to 8 bars long, and each track
had 8 to 18 separate loops that I had to manage
individually in order to control each specific
element of the overall piece.
Again, I should probably take it as a compliment
since it seems I make it look easy when I know that
it isn't. Perhaps you could demonstrate to me how
to 'really work that [EMAIL PROTECTED]' on your md-8
minidisc player one day?
While I'm at it, expanding the horizons of my studio
by incorporating analog and digital synth capability,
software synth capability, including the ability to
sample the sounds that I have created (which is what
I use my sampler for), and adding new options for
the creative musician doesn't mean that I've fallen
off of anything. It only means I'm reaching higher,
evolving, and don't want to get stuck in the rut
that you most likely will find yourself in, if you
haven't already.
Sure, it's a five minute game, but when you hit
the magic number you get extended play, and a
greater shot at longevity. Some of us know how
to play. Are you ready to put your quarter in yet?
Haters and Fools...
Dale Lawrence
At 11:24 PM 10/24/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Lets just say that I know from firsthand experience that a detroit live pa
>artist on plus8 who claims to be live brought their mixer from home to a gig
>with all levels preset, and never touched it the rest of the night. They
>also used a hardware sequencer that is linear/song based and they did not
>touch the sequencer all that much either. And come to think of it, it seems
>that the synth patches on the juno106's were all in memory/sysex and there
>was not too much tweaking going on either...it was almost like once the
>patches were loaded and Kawai Q80 was started the set played itself; they
>could have stepped off-stage for a cigarette and a cup of coffee and the set
>would not have changed much.
>
>And for some reason, their set was mixed and arranged *exactly* like their
>records.
>
>The sad thing is that some artists made great records before they went
>digital, and they fell off when they stopped using the old standbys. It is a
>5 minute game, isn't it?
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