Kerry Hopwood is the Live Programmer/Musical Director for Depeche Mode. When it comes to staging a live DM show, theres no cutting corners. Kerry puts it simply: We need to use tools that work. In ...
Kerry Hopwood is the Live Programmer/Musical Director for Depeche Mode. When it comes to staging a live DM show, theres no cutting corners. Kerry puts it simply: We need to use tools that work. In concert, Kerry and Depeche Mode rely on Ableton Live as an integral component of shaping the bands drum sound. In this movie, shot at a concert in Berlins Olympiastadion, Kerry discusses the advantages that Live offers for on-stage sound processing.
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As drummer who plays live AND owns a copy of Ableton Live 7.0.16 I have to say I am some what impressed with this video! I really did not think to combine 'live' drums with Ableton to create real time EFX and Gates etc through software... i will have to give it go...!!??
I was the pilot that carried all the Depeche Mode gear for the 6 shows of the South American portion of the Tour of The Universe. I met Kerry and spent some time talking to him. Very nice, genuine and humble fellow. I spent lots of time talking with Christian Eigner as well, he is a great drummer and very nice person. We talked a lot about drumming and his own music since I am also a drummer. Good peoples.
depeche mode should go back to using a drum machine in their songs. I think they very rarely used them live though, even back in the early days (they used to use a recording of them played on a reel to reel)
Are there special microphones that are used? I suppose you would need very close proximity microphones so the toms wouldn't bleed into the adjacent microphones and false trigger.
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I never thought that drummers combine real drums with real-time software effects