hi o0o[qiB.]o0o (???? what the ****!?!?!)
I've played a few gigs with a "jazz" quartet: piano, sax, trombone and me on
RM1x+A3000 as ryhthm section.
The 3 musicians played mainly standards and some originals in pure jazz vein
and structure (intro, long improvisations over multiple choruses, etc.),
while I flied over the RM1x knobs and switches to create an ever changing
drum&bass rhythmic flow.
the breakbeat programming was done all on the spot, switching between RM1x
sections to create different fills and variations. I divided each pattern
(standard/song) in 4 different kind of breakbeat (let's say "amen",
"apache", "funky drummer" and "andyc") and for each breakbeat I programmed 4
different variations (each 4 or 8 bars long), 3 of them starting on kick and
the fourth starting on snare.
hard to understand? ;)
... amen .. ..apache... ...fdrum... ...andyc...
[] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] <----- RM1x sections
K K K S K K K S K K K S K K K S <------- pattern starts with
Kick (K) or Snare (S)
organizing the drum material in this way I could create endless rhythmic
variations. The original grooves were "recycled" and then MIDI-rearranged in
Cubase, then exported to the Rm1x via floppy (first in Song Mode, then Split
to Pattern Sections).
maximum 2 MIDI channels were involved (just drums). no RM1x sounds at all
(not even connected...). switch pattern set to 16th.
I was really busy playing RM1x section switches & knobs (assigned to A3k
filters) and the FX sends of a little mixer routed to the Yam FX770 weird
delays and distortions...
great experience... and the crowd liked it...
ciao
leo
>Does anybody sequence drum and bass, or any other form of
>emusic that calls for constant variation in the song structure
>(IDM comes to mind, as does some experimental techno..)?
>does anybody do improvisational sets with this box?
>
