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Re: sequencers!!!!!!!!!!!!

2008-11-16 by von.haulshoven

We enjoyed Eindhoven a lot, good to meet interesting people and hear 
good music!

It was our first live concert, we played over 2hours.
and we made a double live album of it :-)
(spam :-)) http://www.ambientlive.com/albums/dsm_elive.htm

Maybe we play next year in Great Brittain.



--- In analogue-sequencer@yahoogroups.com, "duncan" <ferrograph@...> 
wrote:
>
> >>hello, here a video from yesterday evening. I am now working, as 
you
> can see, with 2 maq 16/3. but they are awfull to program for long
> interesting and ever changing sequences. so I am looking for a new
> step sequencer to add at my setup.<<
> 
> blimey, you've changed the studio a bit since that guitar workout 
from
> '06! :-)
> 
> agreed re the maq- they only work for longer compositions if you are
> constantly changing-
> 
> the pitches. this is what they really lend themselves to- hands-on,
> with both hands! & playing through some sort of force-to-scale
> mechanism. we used to use special patches in a sampler, then custom
> tuning tables in the emu proteus modules, & now the p3 is used to
> process (& sometimes capture) the maq's output.
> 
> the row lengths. we use an external midi controller to adjust the
> loop-point of each row. we don't alter the start point often, as it
> can get hard to remain syncopated.
> 
> the timbres. use midi controllers & the maq itself to alter anything
> you can address by midi-CC.
> 
> try chaining the rows together to make longer sequences. we have 
done
> this a few times, but I noticed that the maq will tend to crash if 
any
> row in a chain is in random mode...
> 
> you could also set the two maqs up to interfere with each other. I
> have three of them- I really ought to try that next time two of them
> are in the same studio.... :-)
> 
> but yes, you need to get a p3! it has the immediacy of the maq, if 
you
> set it up right (i.e. knob-grab events, keyboard input...) but the
> depth of... well.... actually I don't think there is another machine
> in hardware or software that achieves the same as the p3.
> 
> duncan/r.m.i.
> 
> (p.s. did you enjoy the eindhoven experience?)
>

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