Hi,
I think this is VERY true, in fact, I have gotten out all my old gear
and I'm working on a new hardware live PA again - but while I gain a
huge amount of energy, I definitely lose a lot of intricacy due to the
limitations of the gear which pretty much forces me to do a bunch of
loops. I just can't program the same amount of change and detail as I
can when I DJ my finished tracks off of laptop. Still, I'm hoping that
the funkiness and live energy and constant change up of patterns/songs
will make up for that.
I also have considered syncing my laptop to the gear and once in a while
bringing finished tracks off of the laptop. Best of both worlds?
~David
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I think the lack of variety was due partyly to them being so busy keeping all
the gear under control. The atmosphere created by this mad scientist lab of
gear (one of them had a dexter's lab tshirt which was very appropriate) lends
itself to sweaty knob tweaking and channel cutting while trying to catch up
with the sequencer as it goes from track to track. This made the tracks sound
very similar and somewhat compromises the ability to intricately map out the
flow of a performance over time which IMO a laptop is more suited for since the
timecode and cabling is all internal and out of sight. Of course the tradeoff
with the laptop is that it compromises the raw live feel you get when it seems
like the machines could go haywire at any moment.
