Mantrix
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Posted : Aug 9, 2005 16:41
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I think one of the most fun, simple and hypnotic ways to play live is to chop up loops out of your tracks... like a kick loop, bass loop, a few lead loops, different drum elements looped, along with some samples placed alaong a midi keyboard to trigger whenever you feel like it.
Using Ableton is now probably the best way to do this. I used to do it all on outboard gear and as long as you practice a lot and are familiar with what each loop is, you can keep the music flowing and changing. Its a good idea to setup filters over a lot of the sounds so you can introduce the sound down in the low mids, add a hi hat, raise the cutoff up a bit, drop the kick out, add another rhythm loop, bring the cutoff right up and drop in the kick and another loop, etc. etc. This is really powerful stuff provided your loops are catchy.
Withthat method you can play a single part of a track as long as you like, reading the dance floor you can decide that this part isn't working so wuickly move on.
That's my favourite way.
Alot of dudes just play backing tracks and trigger a few sounds over the top (or pretend to):)
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