Analogue-sequencer

Gert and Paul said:

 >Excellent story, Jim! I would love to hear that last piece, but I  
gather you
 >haven't recorded it...?

 >Awesome story Jim - would love to hear the music, if you recorded any.

Unfortunately, the new M-Audio Microtrack I just got resets the  
inputs upon power down, so unbeknownst to me, when it booted back up,  
it was set to the mic input instead of the line inputs (stupid bug).  
So I recorded about 40 minutes of silence.

I do however still have the tracks in the P3, so will dump a mix of  
what the endings of these pieces sound like when I get set back up.

 >And I totally know what you mean: it's so incredibly liberating to be
 >able to sit in front of an audience with a fairly complex powerful
 >instrument like the P3 and just improvise with some confidence it'll
 >turn out OK.

This was my proof of concept, to make sure I wouldn't make too big a  
fool out of myself. I've got some work to do to get my Nova and ER-1/ 
ES-1 performance banks where they need to be and get a better handle  
on P3 auxes and accumulators, but not a bad outing at all.

 >I'd love to get together with you, get our P3s synced,
 >agree on a key then see where it goes.

The next big JIC 12-hour rave thing you do, let me know;^) I've just  
about burned out the tracks on my In Session CDs from playing them so  
much.
--
Jim Combs
www.touchxtone.com
www.myspace.com/jimcombs

On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 19:59:16 -0500, James Combs
<jwcombs@bellsouth.net> wrote:

>Unfortunately, the new M-Audio Microtrack I just got resets the  
>inputs upon power down, so unbeknownst to me, when it booted back up,  
>it was set to the mic input instead of the line inputs (stupid bug).  
>So I recorded about 40 minutes of silence.

Bummer... :(

>I do however still have the tracks in the P3, so will dump a mix of  
>what the endings of these pieces sound like when I get set back up.

:)

>This was my proof of concept, to make sure I wouldn't make too big a  
>fool out of myself. I've got some work to do to get my Nova and ER-1/ 
>ES-1 performance banks where they need to be and get a better handle  
>on P3 auxes and accumulators, but not a bad outing at all.

One thing you can do in advance that can be interesting is initialise
your banks but set up some auxes ahead of performance. These might do
cool stuff like assign the knobs to control pattern length or
timebase, increase the probability of random muting of ties, gates,
swap notes with other tracks, that sort of thing. Then when you bang
in a loop you like, you can turn a few knobs and see what happens.. :)

>The next big JIC 12-hour rave thing you do, let me know;^) I've just  
>about burned out the tracks on my In Session CDs from playing them so  
>much.

We get together at my place most weeks - will send you some
newer/funkier jams at some point or, better still, upload them to the
JIC website. But yeah, we're definitely ready for another party gig!

Paul
---
Paul Nagle - Joint Intelligence Committee - www.JointIntelligenceCommittee.com
                           SoftRoom Music - www.softroom.co.uk

On 19 Mar 2006 at 19:59, James Combs wrote:
> The next big JIC 12-hour rave thing you do, let me know;^) I've 
just  
> about burned out the tracks on my In Session CDs from playing them 
so  
> much.

Have to agree with this, they haven't been off my CD player since I 
got them. An essential purchase IMHO :->)

Andy
---

Andy Wilson
http://www.techman.synth.net
andy@techman.synth.net

James Combs wrote:
> Gert and Paul said:

> Unfortunately, the new M-Audio Microtrack I just got resets the
> inputs upon power down, so unbeknownst to me, when it booted back up,
> it was set to the mic input instead of the line inputs (stupid bug).
> So I recorded about 40 minutes of silence.

Shame. Did you install the last firmware update from M-Audio?

> I do however still have the tracks in the P3, so will dump a mix of
> what the endings of these pieces sound like when I get set back up.

That would be excellent, Jim.

> The next big JIC 12-hour rave thing you do, let me know;^) I've just
> about burned out the tracks on my In Session CDs from playing them so
> much.

Jim, are you planning to visit EM-2006 in Philly again? (I'm still trying to 
see if I can make it) You might want to do one of your live sets...

:-)

Gert van Santen
www.waveworld.tv

--- In analogue-sequencer@yahoogroups.com, James Combs <jwcombs@...>
wrote:
> I do however still have the tracks in the P3, so will dump a mix of  
> what the endings of these pieces sound like when I get set back up.

This was how the first, random card generation piece, now called Luck
Of The Draw, kinda ended up sounding. The only difference is that
Saturday, there was a JD-800 32-sec loopy ambient thing that was
swirling around in the background, and Saturday did not have the
arrangement here (Saturday started from nothing and built up). But the
notes are what was captured live.

http://www.sensitivechaos.com/mp3s/LuckOfTheDraw.mp3

-Jim
www.touchxtone.com
www.myspace.com/jimcombs
www.sensitivechaos.com