The Art of Live PA.

[The_Laughing_Man]

currently in progress of sorting the materials on my own live pa, after buying new laptop few weeks ago. awful work to sort all the tracks, split them into sections, export and build the whole live pa from blank canvas. chalenging job this is. i hope it will not take me months and i will record first tape before end of year.

live pa is the future of techno and music in general, tho.

Making a live pa is the most horrible tedious thing in the world.
Playing it, on the other hand.........

When are you going to send me music anyway me old china?

[SlavikSvensk]

It`s better than an mpc.
ever used an mpc?
Rubbish sequencing. Tiny interface, very few features of actual manipulation.
It was a loop player essentially.
1 fader, 2 knobs.

You just can`t compare them in both the internal sequencing system and the external control method.

yeah had an mpc for 6 years. was fun but yes, tedious.

think you're still missing my point, though. not a question of being as good as an mpc, but that you could exactly emulate an mpc-based live PA if you wanted to. you wouldn't have to, by any means. but you could, if you were one of those "hardware only" types. so it's not a case of "different means," which is what i've always thought was the point of the "hardware not software" argument.

from that, you can extrapolate that "if you can do exactly what you did with hardware, but also this other stuff, then what's the advantage of hardware supposed to be again?"

[The_Laughing_Man]

I`m not sure how you could emulate an mpc PA with an apc 40.
It is a midi interface and contains no internal storage capability, it has to be used with a laptop or pc.
It works in a completely different way to the mpc.
You might be able to reprogram it all within Max for live to work like an mpc but I have no idea why anyone would do that.
Or I suppose you could set your clips to trigger once and set them up in a grid and do it that way but it wouldn`t replicate an mpc


A laptop is hardware. People seem to confuse this point, and I never understand why people make a difference.

The APC 40 is just a midi interface that happens to replicate the GUI and functionality of what is happening on your ableton screen. That the ableton GUI is already a revolution in live pa functionality is what makes the APC 40 so amazing.

[BloodStar]

Making a live pa is the most horrible tedious thing in the world.
Playing it, on the other hand.........

When are you going to send me music anyway me old china?

ey chief, i will send you something i did as Fractalized, got few tunes finished, so will be glad zou take a listen,.

got also few in progress tracks for singularity. not sure if it can fit into singularity box, as the tracks are just synths, not even typical 4x4 structure, but more sort of abstract composition synth tweaking and layering + mad FX....

let speak on MSN,. once i have chance to catch you there, hehe.

[Patrick DSP]

www.patrickdsp.com/m4l.mov

i got the apc so i can do live drum step sequencing with max4live! the above video was done with a beta version so it has some tweaks needed to be done. when i get off my ass I'll buy max4live that just came out. (don't mind the stock drum sounds in the movie ;) )

the apc really has turned out to be a great all in one controller for me.

[The_Laughing_Man]

www.patrickdsp.com/m4l.mov

i got the apc so i can do live drum step sequencing with max4live! the above video was done with a beta version so it has some tweaks needed to be done. when i get off my ass I'll buy max4live that just came out. (don't mind the stock drum sounds in the movie ;) )

the apc really has turned out to be a great all in one controller for me.

The Launchpad has this functionality right from the get go I believe.
Have you had a demo of one yet?