I had the pleasure of seeing Robert Henke perform at the planetarium this past week. You can tell he is a genius in his field by listening to him babble for a few minutes about the simplicity of his experimentation. Quite amazing.
Of all that he spoke of in those brief moments at the show, it was his grounded take on the material he comes up with that struck me the most. For him it truly is a trial and error process. How refreshing for him to treat what he has accomplished as nothing more than years of doing it the wrong way in hopes of finding what does work.
His approach although not entirely new is a good reminder as to what is really important. What Ableton does is give you a platform from which almost anything is possible. Though, the paradox of choice is something Henke has touched on in the past, and certainly is a hurdle I am having to overcome.
His chance appearance in Denver solidified my intentions of using a fully midi template for performance/production so that everything I do is recorded. It doesn't have to be perfect, yet, the foundation I have laid will prove to be something totally unique.
What I have started now, will evolve and grow with me as I seek out new sounds and emotions.
-Dave
Monday, October 4, 2010
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Back in Action
It certainly has been awhile.
Making progress, albiet quite slowly over the past few months. The new job has been kicking my ass a little bit but the itch to create something has taken hold again.
I have been outlining a midi template for my mixer recently and finally began work this weekend. For quite some time I had this mental stigma about going full midi with the mixer. Having so much functionality built in made me determined to take advantage of that fact, but not being able to really save my actions or use sends has had its drawbacks. I have settled on a system that makes use of the send/return section of Ableton and right now I am making use of a drum rack and 2 instances of Alchemy's performance section as well as 12 send/returns and a few other channels.
So far I have been making mostly hip-hop rhythms and dub tones. I think I will continue in this fashion exploring deep/dub/soul tones but experiment with tempo. As always I am forcing myself to program a lot of my own sounds from scratch and while this is challenging at first working in the framework of my live performance template is making this process far less overwhelming. Hopefully By building a sound and song library this way I will be immediately ready for live performance of the material.
One foot in front of the other.
-Dave
Making progress, albiet quite slowly over the past few months. The new job has been kicking my ass a little bit but the itch to create something has taken hold again.
I have been outlining a midi template for my mixer recently and finally began work this weekend. For quite some time I had this mental stigma about going full midi with the mixer. Having so much functionality built in made me determined to take advantage of that fact, but not being able to really save my actions or use sends has had its drawbacks. I have settled on a system that makes use of the send/return section of Ableton and right now I am making use of a drum rack and 2 instances of Alchemy's performance section as well as 12 send/returns and a few other channels.
So far I have been making mostly hip-hop rhythms and dub tones. I think I will continue in this fashion exploring deep/dub/soul tones but experiment with tempo. As always I am forcing myself to program a lot of my own sounds from scratch and while this is challenging at first working in the framework of my live performance template is making this process far less overwhelming. Hopefully By building a sound and song library this way I will be immediately ready for live performance of the material.
One foot in front of the other.
-Dave
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