Wednesday, December 03, 2003
Back from Holiday's
Three grueling weeks of moving house, selling furniture, gardening, sorting out house settlements and loans, and organizing property managers.
I'm finally out of my old house and it's available for rent, and I've now moved into the new house.
The studio's set up and I've started work on finishing the newest sound set for Sonikmatter.com
I also had a gig which went quite well. I mixed Front of House most of the night and then dropped in a set of my own whereby I remixed 8 tracks in real time on the Kurzweil K2600.
Basically this was the process.
Approach bands and ask for permission to use tracks - granted
Select a good loop.
Grab it, chop it, use KFiler to compress it to a single Sample ID and then move it to the Kurzweil. Build the MIDI file to trigger the samples, line them up next to each other and create a bunch of variations.
Create a triple mode program for each set of samples so that I can filter the bajezus out of the samples in real time.
Buy a foot trigger and use it in conjunction with Arrange mode and a setup to trigger different mute groups on the K2600.
Create a pulsed mute track using Expression MIDI CC 11 and use a nice analog pad to create some trancey moments.
Assign the controllers - here's the list
Midi Faders Pages
Slider 1 - Lo Pass Cutoff
Slider 2 - Hi Pass Cutoff
Slider 3 - Resonance
Slider 4 - Distortion Amount
And then 7 other sets of 4 for the 8 tracks
Large Ribbon Zone 1 - Bass EQ Gain (- 6dB to + 18 dB)
Mod Wheel - Bass EQ Frequency
Large Ribbon Zone 2 - Reverb Amount. Pretty Dry at the left, and dripping in Reverb at the Right
Large Ribbon Zone 3 - Delay Feed back amount.
Basically 2 full days of programming to put a set together and I could have done a whole bunch more, but with the computer losing a sound card, the new sound card being incompatible with the SCSI Card (necessitating a new SCSI Card and a bunch of other completely unrelated, but nevertheless annoying problems, this gig almost didn't happen.
Anyway - it all went well. Probably mixed a little bass light, though the room was naturally boomy. The highs and mids are crystal clear (unlike most of the other bands on the night) and I got asked for an encore.
All up a good night, by all bands. Great sets by Pablo Dali, Signor Dinosaur and Thomas Fords Caberet of Death. All others also did a stirling job (Findus, Freakz of Nature, DJ 109, Cordata) and thanks all for being very professional in setup and pull down.
Till next time...
I'm finally out of my old house and it's available for rent, and I've now moved into the new house.
The studio's set up and I've started work on finishing the newest sound set for Sonikmatter.com
I also had a gig which went quite well. I mixed Front of House most of the night and then dropped in a set of my own whereby I remixed 8 tracks in real time on the Kurzweil K2600.
Basically this was the process.
Approach bands and ask for permission to use tracks - granted
Select a good loop.
Grab it, chop it, use KFiler to compress it to a single Sample ID and then move it to the Kurzweil. Build the MIDI file to trigger the samples, line them up next to each other and create a bunch of variations.
Create a triple mode program for each set of samples so that I can filter the bajezus out of the samples in real time.
Buy a foot trigger and use it in conjunction with Arrange mode and a setup to trigger different mute groups on the K2600.
Create a pulsed mute track using Expression MIDI CC 11 and use a nice analog pad to create some trancey moments.
Assign the controllers - here's the list
Midi Faders Pages
Slider 1 - Lo Pass Cutoff
Slider 2 - Hi Pass Cutoff
Slider 3 - Resonance
Slider 4 - Distortion Amount
And then 7 other sets of 4 for the 8 tracks
Large Ribbon Zone 1 - Bass EQ Gain (- 6dB to + 18 dB)
Mod Wheel - Bass EQ Frequency
Large Ribbon Zone 2 - Reverb Amount. Pretty Dry at the left, and dripping in Reverb at the Right
Large Ribbon Zone 3 - Delay Feed back amount.
Basically 2 full days of programming to put a set together and I could have done a whole bunch more, but with the computer losing a sound card, the new sound card being incompatible with the SCSI Card (necessitating a new SCSI Card and a bunch of other completely unrelated, but nevertheless annoying problems, this gig almost didn't happen.
Anyway - it all went well. Probably mixed a little bass light, though the room was naturally boomy. The highs and mids are crystal clear (unlike most of the other bands on the night) and I got asked for an encore.
All up a good night, by all bands. Great sets by Pablo Dali, Signor Dinosaur and Thomas Fords Caberet of Death. All others also did a stirling job (Findus, Freakz of Nature, DJ 109, Cordata) and thanks all for being very professional in setup and pull down.
Till next time...
