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Live Sets/DIY Interface!!
StoreTags: reaktor, live pa, inteface, patch
Author: em978 on August 08 2007 Viewed 2436 times. 19 people liked this blog. You can rate it below if you haven't already.
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Ok,
I have been sitting on some of this stuff for awhile but.. here it is.
If you don't know already, i have these led button interfaces that I use with my custom reaktor patch.
here is video with info about the box
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here is a super crappy live video
link
I would like to have a better video for this stuff, so if anyone wants to come by and help me put something together that is better. I would be very greatful.
But anyway.. here is the first live set
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This is a test run of my newer set with different tracks.. kind of hackish near the end
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and here is a really old and short one
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I am also putting together an all classical glitch guitar set which should be done soon.
Also here is a little live glitch Reaktor patch that I have been working with in the core programming language.
warning there is some strange audio glitching that happens .. so if anyone knows how to fix it it would be great. Skrewell is included in the patch because, sin waves are the best way to test your well you sampling process works.
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08/08/07
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madeofoak
holy effing eff. nice work. i'm in the same camp about boring laptop performers and have been working with erik (he can jog) on more interactive actual-performance-based stuff, but this is outstanding! clever use of autocad, as well. the next time i'm on tour out there you have to let me stop by and check it out. a bunch of my music friends just moved there (two producers and an mc i work with all the time), too, since you mention being annoyed that no one is doing shit. you should hit them up. they're fantastic.
anyway, good job. wow.
08/08/07
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sAMsKi
'mazing stuff.........great work.
08/08/07
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em978
thanks!
= )
madeofoak who are these friends you speak of?
08/08/07
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madeofoak
paul salva (myspace.com/salvabeats) and lunaversol9 (she's in buffalo with me - myspace.com/iwantantlers and also def harmonic - myspace.com/myspacecomdefharmonic) most notably, though it seems lately milwaukee's entire music scene is moving to the bay.
08/08/07
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korgborglar
ya this is the greatest thing ive seen in a long time... play some shows make some vids!! i could put off being productive all day watching videos like this
08/09/07
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sAMsKi
been thinking about this overnight em978 (which is a good thing) and i have to say that my conclusions so far are that:
a. it's fucking amazing work. really great that people get of their asses and do stuff like this....but
b. i'm not sure it goes far enough to enhance stuff in the live setting...
you see, i agree with you about laptop sets (not always...but often) and that is why i designed my liveset (which scares me to death) around there being a mixture of live inputs - radio / synth / vocals etc...and stuff is genuinely built on the fly, which i hope will keep people interested. No offence but I can imagine coming and seeing you and finding it amazing and definately talking to you afterwards etc....but i do wonder how much the actual live performance would grip me throughout......
anyway, i can't talk cos i am so scared of what i have created that it might never see the light of day  and i am a nobody by any standards anyway. i just thought i'd make this comment to see what you / others think.
blah. sam.
08/09/07
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dach
Great stuff, I love the box!!! Can't wait to hear the guitar set, you released a couple of glitchy guitar tracks some months ago right? They were lovely
08/09/07
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Squeal
This is awe some.
The box looks great. Great music out of it. Looks super fun!
I think you probably told this months ago, but what is this based on? the doepfer midibox stuff or something?
08/09/07
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em978
Thanks for all the kind words! It means a lot to me. I been trying to get out an play some live shows but, people are always like "sure you can play" and then always back out on letting me play. So much for the friendly bay area.
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Samski- to "but i do wonder how much the actual live performance would grip me throughout" Well it's hard to answer that. I think that everything that I am doing to be the directly parellel to that of what a solo instrumentalist would be doing live. At least imo. I come from a back ground in playing guitar so I guess I could say that they are similar. The real thing I am trying to avoid is the whole building up process that happens in a lot of live process electronic music like with the whole loop construction based performance stuff that has been going on of late. Where an artist plays one part live, like a bass live, records it and loops, then goes on the guitar, records it loops it, etc. The problem I seem in this stuff is that they lack the ability to make quick transitions between different sections of a piece since they can only change one part, or they have to reconstruct the whole other section. I kind of wish that they had just got a band together to play the music in the first place, but that is just me. ; ) But away the box and the software is at least my attempt to be able to avoid the pitfalls of this type of performance well also not going down the laptop performance route. It's really tricky line to walk since there are very few artist going this route. I have been debting including another level to my live setup... i was thinking about adding a live sampling of acoustic sounds.. but I still having work out everything for that yet.. and I also on some level think that things might get to confusing if I do.. but I'll probably give it a shot if a work out the glitches that I have been having with my patch that I posted above.
dach-yes those are mine thanks!
sprouts-ucapps
08/10/07
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sAMsKi
yeah man. i felt a bit bad for posting what i did really...as i really admire what you have achieved!! what you don't like in a liveset about describes my liveset - hahaha! well, not exactly as I do quite a lot of played stuff over the top - but the basis certainly lacks the ability to change drastically in a given section...........which is not ideal at all.
i guess what i was talking about with your thing is more the performance element. for example, i have a CB mic that i can shout in, and generally mess about with. this means that there is a very visual live performance element....and this is only one element, so the live preformance element changes throughout - and can adapt to the mood. from the video you posted, i was concerned that without something else going on it might get a bit boring after a while, as a live performance. don't get me wrong..........nowhere near as boring as a lot of stuff - e.g. when I saw plaid last.
for me i guess the idea of adding live sampling of acoustic sounds would add to it a lot to it.
i know this stuff is not easy and to be honest i would like to be in a band really but i would let everyone down beacuse of the unpredictability of my work i want to find some 'run what you brung' type improv nights, that would be fun..........
anwyay, serious props for what you have achieved man. as someone who dabbles in electronics / reaktor and as someone who has obviously thought about the live space in similar terms to you, I am basically in awe of what you have achieved. Just keep assessing it, i guess.
08/10/07
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tantan
You are ridiculously cool, I totally admire your ingenuity! Make me one!
08/11/07
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quip
that is a great box of tricks. wish i could build one.
02/04/08
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antfactor
niftee... wish I were more handy w/hardware/programming. I'm just too lazy to make it myself. I am working on a hardware sequencer though... but it's in collab with an electronics engineer who's finishing his PHD. One day it will wow us all - especially my friend and I (we hope!). What you're doing seems fab. How much did it cost ya in time and $$.
07/24/08
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julienb
Hello,
congratulations for your hardware!
it looks nice, powerful and useful !!
I'm working on a project of RGB monome clone arduino based : link
cheers,
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