Zoe Keating is a cellist that does a similar method to Binkbeats. (You predetermine the length of sections.) Here is a mini-doc on his set up: This is very technical and impressive, but doesn’t leave a lot of room for error or freeform improvisation. He laptop will be running a session that has MIDI clips previously mapped out to loopback control messages that determine how long to run each loop, etc. Here’s his run down, (NSFW - his persona swears a bit.) īinkbeats uses Ableton Live running on a laptop. With much practice, he’s become very good at it. He records the output of his laptop into a Boss RC-505. Marc uses a MIDI keyboard to control a MacBook running MainStage (which is like a performance rack of Logic instruments.) He has a his favourite instruments, drum kits picked out in advance so he can flip through them with his keyboard. You’ll find live performances of both of them on Youtube. This brings to mind two different artists: Marc Rebillet and Binkbeats. I will be grateful for all comments and suggestions. I hope that I could be clear, and yes: I know that this a lot to ask. But eventually I want to come to the point, that I can combine (and synchronise) all this live with another musician, who might contribute with his own loops and improvisations. Sounds like a one man show, and I want to build it as simple as possible first (sounds weird, doesn’t it?). And then - prepared beforehand of course - the looper would be ready to take another new sequence of 16 bars to play 4 times. And most of all, it would be important, to tell a looper: “Play this sequence of 16 bars 4 times and then stop.”, while other loopers are running. I assume that to this purpose I am going to need more than just one looper. While the loop phrase(s) play, I need space to improvise with other instruments, and - most most most importantly - I want to be able to make rhythmic or harmonic changes without prerecording or with little prerecording only. What I want to do is, to make concepts for songs that have different parts, like sequences, and to be able to record loop phrases on the fly. I am talking about live performance (that might be recorded, too), and with a click in the ear of course To bring electronica and loops together with jazz played on real instruments.Ī couple of line instruments with fx (Piano, double bass, electric bass, electric guitar), a looper (ditto x4), an MPC One (finger drumming, sequencing) and a basic mixer - it’s all there. It seems to be complicated, and I’ll try to make it short. Since I have little experience, I’m back to ask for support, hints and hyperlinks for my plan to newly set up my gear. The disadvantage is its mono, an you cannot monitor it individuallyītw: it’s a good idea to get familiar with both, and see what works for you. The advantage is you can control the gain for each track individually The disadvantage is you cannot control the individual levels of tracks going into the sub mix.īut you just have a gain (for aux) amount on each track. The advantage of submix is its stereo, and you can also choose to just monitor its output on your headphones… oh and its a nice big control to slide up : ) So by using sub, you could record on your looper one or more of the tracks. If you have main, it will sent to the main mix If you have sub pressed on it, then that tracks output will be sent to the sub mix So on your mixer, each track has 2 buttons sub and main Yes, you could set your looper to be master, and logic as slave - that’s the simplest way at least to get started. Yeah, so your midisport looks great for the midi… Standalone… will require just then a couple of minor changes set the looper to be midi clock master (as you computer is no longer there) then take midi out (rather than thru) of looper into volcaĬould I set the looper to always be the midi clock master? Then when I connected my computer would take that as the master? I find it hard to work out whether, for instance, my Pocket Piano is sending midi clock data or actual midi notes. as your synth might also want clock for things like sync’d lfos, or get midi sequencing data from your computer) Or get a usb midi hub, that has multiple outputs so it can go directly to both looper and volca (id probably do this esp. What if i have no laptop connected? Could I go But this would mean that the laptop is controlling the clock. you can get a cheap single din one, then go laptop -> usb/midi din -> looper -> (thru) volca So I need to send the midi clock separately, not through the mixer. Midi, the mixers usb is for audio only (mixer acts as a audio interface) it does not handle midi I’m googling aux send but still finding it hard to understand. Though, if you’re happy with mono, then you could aux send. I’m really sorry but I don’t know what this means. Audio looks good, id probably setup the looper on the sub bus,
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