Sunday Night in the Cockpit

I thought I would show you how we have been making patterns and grooves lately for eventual use in our live laptop digital DJ rig. I have been experimenting with MIDI chaining the gadgets up different ways, and in this instance I am using my Electribe RMKII as the master clock device. Using a drum machine as a master tends to send some rather"dirty" sounding patterns to the other devices, but strange things can occur also doing this.
The Future Retro Revolution has a controlled voltage output for pitch and gate functions so I like to send those to my synthesizers.com Studio44 modular cabinet's oscillators. The Alesis Micron will play whatever patterns it has stored independently of the Electribe's "note" information, but it sill is in sync with the MIDI clock signal. Same with the MoPhatt. I record each part separately into the PC,line them up to the time grid, and then load them individually into the laptop and Ableton. That way we can re-mix these elements live in the DJ rig. I should be drawing this portrait job I have been working on for five weeks, but I have pissed away yet another weekend on music. This is why I got a 1.58 GPA at the Kansas City Art Institute - MUSIC! I'll post a video of my pencil drawings soon.

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[maxauto44e]

the beat is pretty nice!

[kipptumor]

@maxauto44e I think it was just in the Electribe. The newer one was better. I haven't been messing with the Techno lately.

[pomfrit93]

enjoyed your video. but do you still live with your mom?

[kipptumor]

@pomfrit93 No - She lives a couple blocks away though.

[kipptumor]

Some of the manuals suck though - They are the ones that start out in Japanese or German and get translated in a less-than-accurate fashion according to the English language. They are hard to follow and you have to use a lot of discretion.

[revhard05]

how do you learn to run all that stuff?

[kipptumor]

It all came with magical talismen called "manuals" ;)

[pomfrit93]

@kipptumor ha. okay. ;)

[synthjunk]

Enjoyed your commentary. Keep up the good work

[revhard05]

well man you get props from me, I thought i would start out simple in the midi would so.. bought a roland tr 505 and still cant fingure it out, i guess im to much of a software kind of guy