Re: More flexible electronic music setup

[Sylvain Poitras <sylvain.trombone@gmail.com>]

Are you using live?  Can't remember if that's part of your setup... if
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racks for Live :
http://afrodjmac.com/category/free-ableton-instruments/

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Sylvain

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 3:19 PM, mark francombe <mark@markfrancombe.com> 
wrote:
> Well honestly thats just down to spending more time playing with your 
> synth
> plugins... not sure what you are using, but I really suggest the cheap 
> stuff
> from Native Instruments, like things for their Kore Player, or Reactor
> player.. if you trawl theri site and d/l all ther free stuff, you can get
> quite a few good things... The thing with Kore is that every patch has 8
> knobs already assigne and working (I use an Axiom 61 too) so out of the 
> box
> a sound is pretty tweakable.
>
> Personaly I prefer hardware synths for this very reason, I like to grab 
> hold
> of something and turn.. NOT spending days deciding which 16 knobs out of 
> a
> million to map to my keyboard buttons.
>
> I have a few analog sequencers and thats a bit like working with 
> loopers, as
> in, when you change something, youve lost the thing before... I like 
> that,
> there nothing like sitting in front of a modular synth with a pile of 
> cables
> round your neck...
>
> But to fit into YOUR way of working, I think you simply need to have some
> "patch days".. just sitting with sounds and noises and SAVE EVERYTHING...
> over-write those factory patches NOW!
>
> Mark
>
>
> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Rainer Straschill
> <moinsound@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> kay'lon rushing schrieb:
>>>
>>>
>>> How can I make my electronic music setup more sonicly flexible? I want
>>> more sounds to play with but i feel like my midi limits me. I 
>>> basically use
>>> the same set of sounds all the time. As you can see in this video 
>>> compared
>>> to the rest of them
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSkOjgYuMOA&feature=youtube_gdata_player
>>> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSkOjgYuMOA&feature=youtube_gdata_player>
>>>
>>>
>>> any tips? I will be performing at my school lunch soon :p
>>>
>> work with a synth that has NO PATCH MEMORY and is rather simple. Like a
>> Doepfer Dark Energy (of the contemporary stuff, or a Minimoog if you 
>> like).
>> Then replace your current synth with it and play a song with it.
>>
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