A Live Set I Can Work for Years and Years
I’d like to spend the next few days talking about the live setup.
I have my favorite drum kit from Ableton, which can also do its own MPC-style dub techno. I doubt that’ll come up at this gig, but it’s there.
I have a really interesting bass instrument tied to Sting2 to lock down to the bass notes of the chords, but this one is the Fors Chrial and it goes really deep, and that’s the place where I’ve got just insane reverb if it comes up and if I think I need it, or more accurately if I remember that I have it.
Second bass is also a Sting2 device tied to the same thing with the Minituar with a simple echo and reverb. I’m using the stock delay and reverb for this show to keep things really clean sounding.
Chord device is a Drift preset, as is the lead. The chords are actually just Drift, not even a preset. The lead I think started with the Jup stock Ableton preset. Generally I don’t love the stock Ableton presets but this one kind of worked.
Although I have a samples lane I don’t think I’m going to use it for this show.
I really do feel like I could use this unchanged for the next few years and still not hit the limits. It’s just very flexible, very simple. I can get away with a lot or a little.
That’s kind of the base philosophy: try real hard and do real well or just do the basics.
I’m going to try to hit the show with very little MIDI information. Just a list of keys and stuff like that, because I haven’t found a way to display what chords Expressive Chords is playing on the Push 3 standalone, and this will be a standalone gig.
It’s all testing out very well. I’m getting very excited.
Trying not to post my rehearsals because I need a month under my belt to really get some unique stuff going, but 45 minutes is no problem. I can get enough variety between the chords and the tempo as well.
Keep it simple, stupid.