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Hey Jacob, its kind of hard to see what you have on the floor, is the sequenced looping coming from the digitech and...? > > I have mixed feelings on this topic, but ultimately > I think the question it broils down to is 'who is > your audience?' For my own work, I receive a steady > stream of criticism for not doing enough to showcase > the technology, and 'that's where the magic is' is a > statement I've heard on more than on occasion. This > kind of comment however comes from technology > oriented people, who only make up a small part of my > audience. As I'd like to think of myself as a > musician, rather than a 'Laptop DJ' (and there are > way too many of those around), the approach I take > is simply play my music and let the technology > demonstrate itself. Technology oriented people can > and will take an interest and figure out for > themselves what makes it tick - other people proably > arn't that intetested to start with and will just > listen to the music. > > Technology to me has a more important role to play - > my requirements are for a system which is highly > portable, easy to setup and very reliable. My setup > time is now down to about 2 minutes, down from 1/2 > hour in my early days, I just chuck the rig on the > floor, plug the power in and go. I'm well aware > that and hiccups from the technology will have a > negative impact on my concentration and ability to > perform - technology needs to just work and not get > in the way, and lets even leave aside > band/stage/sound engineering politics from the > equation > > My set now has a number of phases with the tecnology > involvment from 'none' to 'insane', I think this > helps to satisfy the tecnology, musical, and general > beer drinking oriented segments of my audience: > > Insane - live looping with foot control, vast > variety of instrument control from one guitar, > including octave shift (bass), MIDI triggering > (rhythm and synthersizer control). No backing > tracks - all live > Midway - sequenced backing track, generally with > drums and bass, maybe a splash of extra keyboard > parts. Looping controlled from sequencer, as are > patch changes for my guitar processing. Lets me > play a respectable cover of 'Nothing Else Matters' > always goes down well > None - put all technology aside, pick up guitar and > play classical - makes a great interlude > > Jacob > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEY_m1WMMZg > http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/guitarworkstation > http://www.keystoneframework.org/ > > www.myspace.com/luisangulocom __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com