quoted 7 lines I saw Plaid when they came around, and was tryn to get an idea of what
>I saw Plaid when they came around, and was tryn to get an idea of what
>they were don live. It seemed that pretty much the whole time they were
>tweaking what looked like a large mixing board. They didnt do 2 much on
>their laptops another than queue up new tunes. What I dont get about
>that setup is that it would seem that they would need each sound to have
>its own channel gon to the mixn board but as I could recall there was
>only 1 output comen out of their laptops.
Not to get too geeked out on this, but I got pretty close to the setup and
I'm almost certain they had a breakout box, something like MOTU with
firewire or usb, because of the small rackmount case they had along with
their PowerBook. They were definitely using the mixer a lot to tweak
everything, so I assume they were just sequencing and mixing sources and
adjusting effects. Pretty sure but not positive, that's certainly one way
of doing it. My recommendation is to find _your_ way of generating and
manipulating sound. One way is to lay down many predetermined tracks using
multitrack software. You can also use Max/MSP, Reaktor, SoundHack or
similar and create your own sound device for messing with the sounds and
sequences. Other techniques mentioned on this newsgroup have been no-input,
circuit-bending, misc. strange mic-strangling techniques, all sorts of
stuff. Autechre definitely uses modular synths and Max/MSP. And on and
on....definitely check out the IDM making list, as EggyToast suggested.
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