DASEIN餓鬼

Odd choice to glue it to the ceiling

Yeah, I think of all the tips and ideas I’ve picked up over the years, the crossfader thing is one of (if not the) most effective performance tricks I’ve ever come across. So simple too!

11.3.3 was pretty crashy for me - I’m hoping this is a bit more stable. Downloaded it the other night but tonight I’ll be having my first long session with it. Anyone seen any improvements in stability?

I’ve not watched the video yet tbh, but if you aren’t checking your mixes in mono frequently you’re missing a trick! (Especially if you want to play live/get your tunes played in clubs and venues, where most systems are mono).

It’s a cool little box of tricks. At the moment I’ve got two presets that I jump between, one for new projects/mixing, the other for my performance project.

For performance it’s set up like this:

1st row - a row of group track selectors: (1) = Drums; (2) = Bass; (3) = Synths; (4) = FX and Vox. Once the group is selected, Banks 1 and 2 on the MIDI Fighter Twister (MFT) is scripted to have selected track control over the devices, sends, pan, volume etc. on the selected track.

2nd row - Button (1) controls the Touch Me Max device by Elzabeth Homeland - this is the only button in this preset that also uses the dial on the Phantasmal Force to send out MIDI CC data; button (2) toggles the floating windows of two Max device interfaces at the same time, Control Matrix by killhu and Inspector by AudioLord; (3) Selects a specific rack on a bass track in the Bass group which is controlled by Bank 3 on the MFT (filtering/distortion etc.) via the Control Matrix device; button (4) controls the Collapse All function in the GETOUTOFMYWAY device by Elizabeth Homeland so the project immediately collapses back to just showing the group tracks rather than all the tracks within them, which is great if I’ve unfolded any of the groups and have got lost in a world of clips on my Launchpad.

Bottom left 4 buttons (2x2 grid) controls this MFT Bank Changer device - no prizes for guessing what that does 😊

The bottom right 2x2 grid of buttons isn’t set in stone yet - the two right-most buttons on the third row aren’t programmed for anything yet although I have an idea what they’ll be used for; the very bottom right corner button is another track selector for a Portatron channel - this is constantly playing tape loops (which aren’t synced to Live’s BPM) over the whole set, but the channel fader is usually all the way down. I can jump straight to this track with the bottom right button then bring the fader up with the MFT to play a looped drone while I speed up the project BPM for the faster section of the set without it affecting the outputput of the Portatron.

The 3rd button on the bottom row is going to be hard to explain 🤣. I’ve basically taken the idea under the heading “A novel use for the crossfader” from this page on the pATCHES website but turbo-charged it. In the Drum group, I’ve set up several drum tracks playing loops and classic breaks, and use this button to switch between them, but instead of just using static fills on the B track like in the linked article, I’ve set up a multi-chained FX rack with different Permut8 banks on each chain. One encoder on the MFT controls the chain selector to jump between banks, and another encoder feeds MIDI notes into the Permut8 rack via a Potee device so as I twist the encoder it changes the current program. Between one botton and two dials I have full control over a couple of hundred giltch/pitch/stutter effectx than I can drop in and out of at will.

Blimey, that was a long post - sorry… Hopefully it makes sense - I’ve never thought about having to explain my setup before! (I’ve just realised I’ve not even covered the preset for mixing either - I guess that’s for another time, if anyone even cares. I use the dial on the Phantasmal Force much more in that preset - this one mainly just uses the buttons, except for the Touch Me device button which uses the dial too. The MFT does 99% of the twisty knob stuff in my performance set)

TLDR: buttons do stuff

Here are (probably) my most used plugins - I can see you’ve already got the UAD 1176 collection up there so I’ll not bother mentioning them (but the Rev A is just brilliant) 😊:

• Aruria Pigments
• Soundtoys Echoboy
• Sonic Charge Permut8
• Bettermaker EQ (Plugin Alliance)
• Madrona Labs Aalto

Nice idea by the way - it looks good!

It was packed, like. Good atmosphere, rained a bit, sunny a bit, the kids loved it, I got beer, what’s not to like 😊

It’s an annual thing so come down next year!

I discovered this classic-sounding upbeat ska track by the Steadytones over the weekend thanks to Craig Charles’ Radio 6 show, and can’t get enough of it. I couldn’t believe it when I found out it only came out last year. It’s blatantly going to be my song of the summer - it’s got such a great laid back summer vibe!

Related to this, a good friend of mine is the engineer for a very well-known dub producer, and last time I saw him I ran through a live set I’ve been working on for a few months - (I make jungle/breakbeat/IDM stuff). He gave me two great tips - one of which I can’t be bothered to explain here as it’ll take me to long to type out, but the other was basically saying the same thing as this - make some elements really jump out of the mix, make stuff BANG and it’ll make the audience respond so much better than having everything sit nicely and politely throughout the whole set.

(Just want to mention that this is the first time I’ve commented on Lemmy and I’m not sure how the whole crossposting thing across instances works. I’ve left the same comment on the article at music.productiom - hope that’s okay! Just want to try to spark discussion and realised this is posted to two different places where I have an account 😊)