Live PA's methods

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Originally Posted by "dirty_bass

Although I still like to see more than a guy with a laptop and a mouse, it looks so lame.
Controllers and toys are needed.

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Loadsa controllers, indeed, there aint no way i'd even want to go near a mouse onstage, too much time wasted and the possibility for f**kin it up in a moment of excitement is immense.

But as we all know, Ableton can be used as an mpc with a big screen, and with all the right buttons to push and knobs to tweek, would probably not look an awful lot different to a hardware performance.

And it'd still be a hell of a lot less to get on n off the plane :lol:

Did you call him out on it? I hope you didn't just keep your mouth shut and look the other way...

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Originally Posted by EmotionComplex

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Originally Posted by JohnnySideways

that K90 thing is a **** joke...he doesnt even plug his keyboard in..theyre there for show.. :nono:

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i had the opportunity to get a good lookat what he was upto last year as i was playing after him, he might aswell just of been playing a mix cd and dancing to it!

a midi keyboard was set up for no apparant reason and every now and then hes tap some keys and dance about,a laptop that was just playing his tracks as audio tracks in logic, i could see them all in order and he must of exported them all at the same tempo so it was just a matter of arrangeing them in order before he left the house.

and a big mixer which wasnt needed either as he was plugged into the dj mixer from it, he could of just taken a direct output from his laptop into it.

i mean to most people there it must of looked pretty good as they wouldnt of know but when you realise what hes upto its just embaracing to watch really, he should of just did a dj set and playedhis stuff on vinyl
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There's nothing inherently wrong in playing a full track in a live set. Its there are plenty of reasons to do it. Going to the loo is a major, major one.. hahahahaha!

But seriously, if im going to do it i usually chop the track up so i can edit and extend on the fly, there are some tracks that i know work a dancefloor. The tracks are my productions and no-one else's.

Which brings me to the other point, I dont like P.A.'s that use other peoples music, or loops from already released tracks that arent theirs. In my book it's dishonest to do this and call yourself a live PA.

Just MO.

I couldnt imagine producing this music without having the desire to play it live.....straight from the source.

Present the sounds for what they are in a Live way.

You dont have the liberty of pre-sequencing the setup of the sounds. Rather you can personally deliver them in a way that presents them for what they are in a more pure and naive sense.


....sorry bout that :? thats all I can think of for now.

sound for the sake of sound.