Klaas-Jan wrote:
It was indeed a nice DJ set but it wasn't really live. He had some
equipment on stage but hitting the play button on your MPC and
missing and talking into the mic. isn't really a live set, isn't it?
When Carl Craig recently played Melbourne he was running all the tracks from
an MPC 3000 (in 'song' mode)... but he was playing live keys, and mixing
everything down live (and he was working pretty hard). I'd call that a live
set. :)
Rogier wrote:
The only guy I saw using a sampler as a sampler (and not as a waveplayer)
was M Herbert aka dr Rocket live. You'll go and check him
out and wait untill he'll get his bike on stage ;)
In a live performance it's pretty tricky to set the levels on your sampler
for each 'sound', get a clean sample, trim the sample and then assign it to
pad/key. Much respect to Matthew Herbert, he's an excellent producer and
entertaining DJ... but you should look a little closer at his live
performance.
He played a solo set (clunky Radio Boy style including 'Take me Back') by
himself, and an 'Around the House' set with Dani and Phil in Melbourne.
During the solo set he was 'playing' objects (plastic bags, Coke cans etc.)
into the microphnes (and playing with the FX on the mics), but the actual
tracks were running off DAT. During the 'Around the House' set, there was
live vocals by Dani, and live keys by Matthew and Phil... but the rest of
the tracks were playing stright from DAT. There was a sampler on stage, but
I didn't see/hear any actual sampling. Still a great show though!
peace
~Askew
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