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i need beyond my rack
apc and launchpad or chain of

its all about writing custom patches to interface with your midi gear. Sure its nice factory standard but when you get a piece of gear really running exactly how you want it, it becomes an inspiring instrument of its own.

I would love to bounce all of my tracks to stems, chop them into loops, and play sets that way...but my last set was 30+ tunes, and doing that would take FOREVER. I know I just need to bite the bullet and take a couple of days to do it, but I have so little time to work on music these days that it just feels like a waste when I could be working on actually writing a tune. If I could get a month off school and work, I would definitely dedicate some time to it, but I can't even imagine how long it would take to bounce 6 or so groups of stems and chop them up into 16 bars, even if I'm doing the chopping in Ableton.


So I do DJ sets in Ableton with my own tunes, have a Korg NanoKontrol set up to control levels, effects, filters, etc. and a Guitar Hero controller set up with a couple of different plugins for repeats / glitchy stuff. I have a NanoPad that I just use in the studio, currently thinking of ways I can use it (probably going to just use the pads to trigger breakbeats instead of the NanoKontrol, which I use now.

cloak and dagger wrote:I would love to bounce all of my tracks to stems, chop them into loops, and play sets that way...but my last set was 30+ tunes, and doing that would take FOREVER. I know I just need to bite the bullet and take a couple of days to do it, but I have so little time to work on music these days that it just feels like a waste when I could be working on actually writing a tune. If I could get a month off school and work, I would definitely dedicate some time to it, but I can't even imagine how long it would take to bounce 6 or so groups of stems and chop them up into 16 bars, even if I'm doing the chopping in Ableton.


So I do DJ sets in Ableton with my own tunes, have a Korg NanoKontrol set up to control levels, effects, filters, etc. and a Guitar Hero controller set up with a couple of different plugins for repeats / glitchy stuff. I have a NanoPad that I just use in the studio, currently thinking of ways I can use it (probably going to just use the pads to trigger breakbeats instead of the NanoKontrol, which I use now.

Yeah I know, shit takes time a. I finish uni exams in a couple of weeks and my mission is to finish mixing a whole lot of songs, then bounce them from logic to ableton into 6 tracks. Then do the whole tom cosm chop up thing. Don't think it will take too long...but even after that I reckon it'll take a while to get your head around it and start doing sets that aren't just re-playing your songs. Can't wait to get on it! Wana try get some live audio into it as well (micron and saxophone) but that'll take even longer haha. And need a decent soundcard with some external audio ins that will work with my mac without destroying my bank balance.

collective wrote:as creative as I want

ableton as sequencer
Mbase 01 - for thumpy analog kick
moogeerfooger 104z - for mushy analog delay
mpd24
bitstream 3x
novation x-station for live keys


if its on the west coast, ill bring out the
virus TI
Lil Phatty

full improv, sometimes its rough, but its fun.

You gotta being doing house (or techno).

fiziks wrote:

collective wrote:as creative as I want

ableton as sequencer
Mbase 01 - for thumpy analog kick
moogeerfooger 104z - for mushy analog delay
mpd24
bitstream 3x
novation x-station for live keys


if its on the west coast, ill bring out the
virus TI
Lil Phatty

full improv, sometimes its rough, but its fun.

You gotta being doing house (or techno).

Why would I have to be doing house or techno? In fact I start my sets at around 115 and work up to 140. Depends what I feel like doing.