Great tips as usual! Playing live if nervous (which is normal and you want to channel that adrenaline) would and still does make me want to add more musical elements when really I needed to learn how to chill and wait for it. Less is definitely more. Less is also more regarding equipment. A big no-no I learned the hard way was to use, for example, a new machine that I didn’t totally fully know how to use. Wait till the next gig. Then, plans B, C, and D. Once I was playing with Korg machines and daisy chaining the synchronization using the Korg’s own system of cables. One link failed and it was a train wreck. Since then, every instrument has an independent direct midi input from a midi through box. When I used a lot more instruments than now and I improvised exclusively I would have two separate midi loops that I synced manually. A learning curve but worth it. Finally I bring an iPad with me with my tracks in the event of total meltdown and catastrophe. Not performing is never an option. Record everything you play and listen to it. When performing live, if you make a mistake, repeat it. Then repeat it again. No longer a mistake, now a motif. Good times, thanks AK!
Have you considered reintroducing an MPC or similar sampler to your live kit? Something about the potential of live looping with melodic or drum sample slices seems like a very expressive and quickly iterated form of music creation. Also, I still am of the opinion that some electronic musicians who lean away from dj mode and more towards live set and loop mode, should probably route some synths into a 70+key midi keyboard. And then learn to jam on some keys (or play 2 short keyboards at the same time, maybe? Juno+a miniMoog? Pfff...that would be awesome. Especially with a loop station pedal.) This type of music ain't simple tho. And everyone needs to find their own optimal path to an optimized workflow.
Hi, bro! I would like to say that you need to trust your equipment. When I was young and green. When the grass was greener. I had to cancel my performance due to a faulty tuning in one guitar pedal. But at that moment, I was looking for the reason in the main hardware. I thought a ghost had appeared in my synthesizers and was unsuccessfully restarting them. Now I can assess the readiness of the setup settings at a glance thanks to this terrible experience. Please tell me, how do you make transitions between songs? Thank you bro for being there!)
Great tips as usual!
Playing live if nervous (which is normal and you want to channel that adrenaline) would and still does make me want to add more musical elements when really I needed to learn how to chill and wait for it. Less is definitely more.
Less is also more regarding equipment. A big no-no I learned the hard way was to use, for example, a new machine that I didn’t totally fully know how to use. Wait till the next gig.
Then, plans B, C, and D. Once I was playing with Korg machines and daisy chaining the synchronization using the Korg’s own system of cables. One link failed and it was a train wreck. Since then, every instrument has an independent direct midi input from a midi through box.
When I used a lot more instruments than now and I improvised exclusively I would have two separate midi loops that I synced manually. A learning curve but worth it. Finally I bring an iPad with me with my tracks in the event of total meltdown and catastrophe. Not performing is never an option.
Record everything you play and listen to it. When performing live, if you make a mistake, repeat it. Then repeat it again. No longer a mistake, now a motif. Good times, thanks AK!
keep on grooving!
Always!
Have you considered reintroducing an MPC or similar sampler to your live kit?
Something about the potential of live looping with melodic or drum sample slices seems like a very expressive and quickly iterated form of music creation.
Also, I still am of the opinion that some electronic musicians who lean away from dj mode and more towards live set and loop mode, should probably route some synths into a 70+key midi keyboard. And then learn to jam on some keys (or play 2 short keyboards at the same time, maybe? Juno+a miniMoog? Pfff...that would be awesome. Especially with a loop station pedal.)
This type of music ain't simple tho. And everyone needs to find their own optimal path to an optimized workflow.
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Hi, bro! I would like to say that you need to trust your equipment. When I was young and green. When the grass was greener. I had to cancel my performance due to a faulty tuning in one guitar pedal. But at that moment, I was looking for the reason in the main hardware. I thought a ghost had appeared in my synthesizers and was unsuccessfully restarting them.
Now I can assess the readiness of the setup settings at a glance thanks to this terrible experience.
Please tell me, how do you make transitions between songs?
Thank you bro for being there!)
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How do you route the arturia without the computer?
That's the new MiniLab 3. It has 5-pin midi out.