Brian wrote:-
quoted 5 lines The sequencing software will repeat a bar section (which can be any
>The sequencing software will repeat a bar section (which can be any
>number of beats, 4/8/16 would be the most handy for typical IDM) as long as
>you like, while you are free to dial in a new section from anywhere in the
>song. So the artist has total control over repeating earlier sections of a
>song or skipping to the next song at any point.
Spot on, I believe Orbital use two Alesis MMT8's to do this, in my experience
using a hardware sequencer is alot safer than dragging any computer on stage.
I too have also had good experiences with the Ensoniq, using the ESQ-1 and
SQ-80 (the SQ being far better with the floppy drive). However I did here
that K-Class (ok not very IDM) had used this live arranging approch and
packed it in as they were getting into massive over the top performances,
maybe they just weren't very good at it, after all Orbital are a hard act
to follow. The point is however that with any tape based system you are
stuck with a fixed length performance, nightmare if they're climbing the
walls when your on the last 16bars, also a nightmare if they've gone home
and you've got another 11mins to play ....
M:)
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