Doepfer

Hi Sebastian,
Congratulations with the gig..Love Parade and Mayday?? very nice!!

well, all I can say is you are a brave man!
I don't use my doepfer onstage for 2 reasons, too much of a pain to 
re-patch every song and I just couldn't let it leave my studio as I 
love it too much to risk any damage to it!!

I try to use my nord modular for stage work but sounds are very 
important to my music so prefer to sample the doepfer than use a 
thinner sound.
I'm very interested in using controllers to help with the doepfer 
live, the as patch matrix could help a lot.

Does anyone know if you can solder a cable which would allow you to 
use an old joystick (atari years), a mouse or something plugged into 
the foot controller module?
I saw a pic on synthesizers.com website where they did, anyone tried 
it with the doepfer module?


Thanks
John.





--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com, "Sebastian Schnitzenbaumer" 
<schnitz@m...> wrote:
> Hi Doepfer Community,
> 
> just wanted to report from my experience being on stage
> with my Doepfer A100 Mini System.
> 
> We performed at Pathos, Munich last Friday. The only 
> instrument I took was the Doepfer.
> 
> It worked. 
> 
> The machine didn't let me down.
> 
> I'm now thinking of using it at MayDay and Love Parade
> this year.
> 
> From that experience I will now open my Doepfer Module
> chapter again and gear my doepfer towards a mobile
> performance device.
> 
> Sound-wise, I have decided to leave the experimentation
> corner and move towards the classic keyboard setup.
> 
> This means that I will be thinking about Polyphony,
> what Keyboard to use with the Doepfer, and focus on
> warm analog sounds I primarily access thru a (standard)
> keyboard. So spend less time turning nobs, more time 
> keeping the fingers on the keys.
> 
> From all the things you can do with the Doepfer system,
> I'm therefore now looking into the "normal" synthesizer 
> operating mode. 
> 
> As I have been tortured thru a classic piano education
> in my youth, I feel comfortable expressing myself thru
> the keyboard itself. What the Doepfer System gives me 
> though, is an extremely fat and unprecedented warm sound. 
> This is what I'm looking for. Less rhythm-oriented or
> sound-design oriented patches or altenative user 
> interfaces. User Interface is exactly the point here. The 
> standard keyboard happens to be a really well-debugged
> user interface I came to value again on stage, whilst
> turning nobs is cool but gives me less overall 
> expressiveness, that is, while being on stage.
> 
> I have managed, however, to play a pretty fast bass line 
> with my left hand on the keyboard while slowly turning 
> one nob with my right hand on my Doepfer system
> on stage (took me a while to practise - accessing two 
> different user interfaces [keyboard, nob] with each hand 
> independently under stress conditions without any
> loss of timing). 
> 
> I think this essentially means that I will keep a certain
> patch going as-is and unchanged for a while, and try to 
> patch all "configuration" of that sound into one or 
> two nobs that are easily accessible on stage. What I
> mean is: on stage its dark, or lights flash - and if my
> Doepfer buries nobs under the cables from the patch,
> it is *really* hard to get to the right nob fast - also while 
> being only under half my brain capacity since my other 
> hand keeps a groove going on the keyboard - so chances 
> are high that you end up turning a different nob by mistake.
> 
> So I'm thinking of using blind plates next to that one 
> module in my new setup that is patched to be safe to 
> operate under live conditions.
> 
> Anyone with similar experiences and thoughts?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> - Sebastian