More Capability Does Not Equal a Better Set
Something really interesting came up today. I started using an external keyboard in the live set and I thought I’d run some time to it so if I wanted to do an arpeggio I could, and that changed the whole thing-for the worse. It changed the set and made it less good somehow, which I was not expecting.
More options obviously is good, but previous to that I was using it for lead lines and it was awesome, like having a synth that I really know well, in this case the Roland Aira System-1, the 25 key number that people poo-pooed at the time. Whatever. It’s a lost classic. People will find out about it and raise it up where it belongs.
But you know, having everything was great and then I added something and I went too far, and more capability does not equal better music. So I’d hit upon something.
The gig is a week away so I can fix it. It’ll take me about a minute to change the set back because I changed it from an audio track to an external instrument. Now I can change it back to just an audio track coming into the Push 3 standalone.
But you know, especially with music, there’s always a point where you can go too far.
What it really got me doing was starting to use that way too early, whereas starting out gradually, like over six or seven minutes, bringing up the levels on what’s happening on the Push and the Minitaur and the whole thing with the set, and these melody lines with the synth to be only sprinkled on top very liberally.
And that’s definitely where all that needs to stay.
So lesson learned.
Don’t overdo it out there, chumps.