Ello,
This list seems deader than a mortician's breakfast this time of year,
funny how we rarely have threads..
In a vein attempt to make up for all the annoying questions I have
been throwing at y'all, and to hopefully stimulate some educational
and interesting conversations, I stand before this fine assortment
of musicians to ask:-- How do you sequence your RM1X/qy700
based music? These boxes are so amazingly dynamic as live
instruments, I'd assume you all don't do it the same way..
Sure, you could track
everything up in song mode, but then why buy the rm1x or QY?
Why didn't cubase or logic attract your attention.. ?
Do you focus on RM1X
knob tweaks and modulate your other gear to spice up simplistic
1 bar loops (with a breakdown in "a" and a buildup in "c")..
Do you program an extensive array of pattern variations
(each consisting of 4-8 bar loops) and dedicate 3-4 styles to
each separate segment of your song (breakdown, part 1, part2)..
Does anybody sequence drum and bass, or any other form of
emusic that calls for constant variation in the song structure
(IDM comes to mind, as does some experimental techno..)?
does anybody do improvisational sets with this box?
I'm not looking for answers to these questions.. I'm looking for stories,
ideas.. discussion amongst the people on this list..
I'm a structure junkie.. more so than
anything else, and I find it amazing how a simple instrument like
a sequencer or sampler can have so many different applications
and methods of abuse by creative minds to make music work..
I run cubase now, and I've devised 3-4 different methods of
generating a composition (form tracking everything out, to putting
it on loop and unmuting bits and pieces.. putting the same instrument,
but different rhythms, on separate tracks to make the song feel like
it holds more than a singular loop).
I'm particularly interested in hearing from people who compose
non trance like music in pattern play mode..
(i.e. music with abrupt variation, not like beyer
or prototype 909.. never touching song mode,
or presequencing everything in pattern chain mode)..
I find this the most interesting because of how free form and
improvisational the structure is..
Well, for me.. I don't own either box (yet) so I can't comment
personally.. but I can say that, in the recent few months, I have learned
a great deal about what can be done with a simple
1-8 bar loop, a few pattern variations and decent programming..
I used to be biased against live play because I thought it would
restrict me into the realm of old school loop techno (x0x sounding)
stuff.. I like this, but write a more aggressively abstract style of music
that enjoys the fruits of deep structural programming (even when
looping similar -ghosted- parts in cubase I like to throw variations in
on every other bar).. Then I discovered that 80% of the
musician I liked actually played live, inspite of what my ears told me
(people like Cari Lekebusch ) and Cristian Vogel
(www.no-future.com) dropped the bomb on me that all
his tracks were done 100% live with no presequencing..
now that *is* amazing IMHO.. A combonation of this, and how
fun live play was for me in the past (doing looping, building x0x stuff)
summoned me upon the rm1x.
So.. how do you do it?
o0o[qiB.]o0o
btw- I've held this bias against live boxes (and still do for most)
since I got into all this jazz in early 93..
