Quote Originally Posted by lunatrick
pounding grooves played live for us last night,he was awesome btw :clap: , and I was having a discussion with someone who was moaning that all the sequences were just running in cubase and then lawrie was tweaking the desk effects etc. but I don't really see how else you can do it. I mean you could improvise with ableton, but you're still just playing pre-recorded sequences - unless you were going to improvise tracks from scratch, which I don't think many producers would want to do live on stage...anyway it doesn't bother me personally - if it sounds good then I don't really care how it was reproduced, it's the end result that matters....In a band scenario it would be like saying 'this isn't very live, they've already written the songs...'
you know we've had this out before?
anyway i agree ....it's electronic music which means it's been programmed
and in order to get that hypnotic feel a sequencer needs to be involved meaning not everything will be played live by a human hand.
which is the whole bloody point of techno.
the idea is to amaze people by your understanding and use of complex technology in your music , which is becoming harder these days as everyone seems to be music savy now.
one thing though for me it has to be with the machines on stage , and no d.a.t. style sets , straight off the mixer warts an all.