How do electronic musicians go about performing?

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How do electronic musicians go about performing?

Postby jimmusician » Tue Dec 08, 2009 4:02 am

So one thing that always confused me was how electronic musicians (computer musicians) went about performing. what programs, what setup, what arrangement. It seems like a lot of time is put in to these works that people put out, I wonder how they get out the door tho.

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Postby Cogix » Tue Dec 08, 2009 10:32 am

First off, with vinyl two or more turntables and a midi controller. This is the way it has been done for decades.

Ableton, in the live view. You can also buy a midi for this but check in the options under midi to see a list of midi controllers and keyboards which are supported

Next tracktor, Pretty good software but a midi is required.

VDj, same story as tracktor only it looks diffrent.

And my personal fav. Serato. Its almost the same as using vinyl only you can digitaly load your tracks via laptop on to the special serato vinyl's.

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yea

Postby yonosoyelquesoy » Tue Dec 08, 2009 3:26 pm

Basically everyone is different...



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Postby Stazma » Wed Dec 09, 2009 11:02 am

"Every man have is technic ... when you'll know mine ... you will be dead"

I don't remember the name of the movie that contain this sentence but I love it hehehe

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Postby producer_snafu » Wed Dec 09, 2009 5:39 pm

make a set then press spacebar
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Postby divtech » Wed Dec 09, 2009 6:56 pm

abletons my favorite way to go, theres a lot of great internal effects and youll never run out of vst effects

right now im working with a novation sl 25 remote, great controller btw

the thing about playing live with a midi that makes it interesting is all the different ways you can intuitively set up your controllers, the possibilities are endless

i have like 5 full different sets of parameters mapped out in different saved files and i still dont know which one to stick with

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Postby MarkyPoo » Wed Dec 09, 2009 9:27 pm

Whatever you do don't let people tell you how to not play live.
Do what is fun even if that means pressing play and dancing with everyone else (way more fun than edits imo)

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Postby cuttingagent » Fri Dec 11, 2009 7:10 am

tbh most of us just press play on winamp and then fuck around on forums so it looks like we're doing something. i like to catch up on various correspondences during this time, and also stalk hot chicks on facebook. i'm currently trying to figure out how to map common facebook functions to a midi controller.
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Postby DISEMBOWELLED » Fri Dec 18, 2009 7:08 pm

MarkyPoo wrote:Do what is fun even if that means pressing play and dancing with everyone else (way more fun than edits imo)


or indeed, dancing on your own

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Postby acid_sound » Sun Jan 17, 2010 4:50 pm

In my opinion it can be quite boring to just play your own songs. I really enjoy to produce some new stuff or to simply rearrange my stuff on stage. My dancing style is like...selling nails, you know.

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Postby Nerd » Tue Apr 05, 2011 12:43 pm

cuttingagent wrote:tbh most of us just press play on winamp and then fuck around on forums so it looks like we're doing something. i like to catch up on various correspondences during this time, and also stalk hot chicks on facebook.


Ha ha ! I'm going to have to start doing this

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Postby kowalczyk » Wed Apr 06, 2011 7:05 am

Nerd wrote:
cuttingagent wrote:tbh most of us just press play on winamp and then fuck around on forums so it looks like we're doing something. i like to catch up on various correspondences during this time, and also stalk hot chicks on facebook.


Ha ha ! I'm going to have to start doing this


Me too. It sounds fucking fantastic! Way better than breakcore anyway.

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Postby SideshowKenny » Wed Dec 07, 2011 9:28 am

i actually pulled off my first real set at Night of Noise! Used my electribes, a kp3, traktor & the Kontrol X1. I gotta remember to freakin remember to plug in mah headphones tho on my gear I did not know what any of my shit sounded like. D'oh!

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