Live tip!
Hi, as an ancient sequencer, (hardsynth) and as I'm in such a good mood from getting a softsynth reverb, thought I'd offer a tip, that although is from my hard synth days is (I believe) equally relevant to live softsynth players.
Although this can be achieved, with a little imagination, that I won't delve into now, for virtually any senario, a lot of live playing can be achieved as if you are sequencing for set songs.
The thing is, (simplified) if you are playing a set midi song, or you add a midi track to an audio backing track, any key switches or difficult control changes, etc are the same every time you play that song (sorry for stating the obvious).
Now imagine you can play the song and add all the bits and pieces after, then do so. Now you will have the lead midi track with all the above.
All you need to do is remove all of the midi notation but leave all of the other midi info, ie program changes.
When you play the song, using that track, if for example you have left the info for growl, key change, bend, expression or whatever, at a particular position, this will happen as you play, without doing anything.
From that point its up to your imagination.
Regards Pete.
Although this can be achieved, with a little imagination, that I won't delve into now, for virtually any senario, a lot of live playing can be achieved as if you are sequencing for set songs.
The thing is, (simplified) if you are playing a set midi song, or you add a midi track to an audio backing track, any key switches or difficult control changes, etc are the same every time you play that song (sorry for stating the obvious).
Now imagine you can play the song and add all the bits and pieces after, then do so. Now you will have the lead midi track with all the above.
All you need to do is remove all of the midi notation but leave all of the other midi info, ie program changes.
When you play the song, using that track, if for example you have left the info for growl, key change, bend, expression or whatever, at a particular position, this will happen as you play, without doing anything.
From that point its up to your imagination.
Regards Pete.
Comments
If done well, it would probably be more emotive and musically/artistically rewarding, etc, etc, when done the other way around: record the notes and, in real-time (i.e. live), intimately manipulate all the controllable variables.
(Am I now instigator/originator of a new artistic movement?
If done well, it would probably be more emotive and musically/artistically rewarding, etc, etc, when done the other way around: record the notes and, in real-time (i.e. live), intimately manipulate all the controllable variables.
(Am I now instigator/originator of a new artistic movement?
It might be more rewarding the other way round but you had better be perfect 100% of the time. If you play a wrong note or miss a note and someone in the audience notices :oops:
Seriously, it isn't a way to cheat or remove control, but a way to add that extra control. That extra control that usually comes only with sequencing.
The fact that growl, scream, portamento, legato, whatever is turned on or off or a patch is changed at a predetermined position in a song without pressing buttons, footpedals, keyswitches, etc, does not remove emotion.
You still have control (the actual amount of growl for example) of whatever is added or removed. Plus you can add effects not possible in a live situation.
But its a tip, not a command
Regards Pete.