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Studio footage with some good pedal shots...

#47
hey John-

firstly - the EP sounds incredible. Jojo's dubstep drumming puts most producers to shame, and your new sounds are nasty. please play another NYC show when time allows, i haven't caught NERVE since that guerilla gig you hit at LOVE back 12/08.

secondly - how's the MP-201? my pedalboard is finally complete (for now), so would you suggest using one to run my MF-101 and MF-102? also, for the "wobble bass" tricks on Catachresis, is that the MP-201 using an LFO to run the MF-101? i've been experimenting with the LFO out on the MF-102 jacked into the Amount input for the MF-101, which sounds great, but lacks the control which you clearly have in your sound. i'm thinking the MP-201 is where i need to go, i'd love to hear YOU say it. :-)

thanks for all the hard work - i appreciate every second of the music.

-Colin
 
#50
Thanks so much guys, it makes me happy that you are into what I do!

This will be rather brief, as i'm typing on my iPod after a gig in switzerland, but yeah, mp201 is the wobble creator for filter stuff, and the speed is controlled by the foot pedal. It isn't tempo locked, I just found some magic settings and worked on riding the speed so it seems in time.

I am going to program some more wobbles, and at some point will probably try some midi sync stuff... But for now it is pretty organic.

Alright.

Tschuüs,
John
 
#53
JohnDavisNYC said:
Thanks so much guys, it makes me happy that you are into what I do!

This will be rather brief, as i'm typing on my iPod after a gig in switzerland, but yeah, mp201 is the wobble creator for filter stuff, and the speed is controlled by the foot pedal. It isn't tempo locked, I just found some magic settings and worked on riding the speed so it seems in time.

I am going to program some more wobbles, and at some point will probably try some midi sync stuff... But for now it is pretty organic.

Alright.

Tschuüs,
John
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that's all i needed to hear. fantastic! my keyboardist and drummer are already MIDI-synced, so i'll be working on finding a setting capable of running off the Ableton clock. Thanks for the info!

-Colin
 
#55
GoPlastic said:
that's all i needed to hear. fantastic! my keyboardist and drummer are already MIDI-synced, so i'll be working on finding a setting capable of running off the Ableton clock. Thanks for the info!

-Colin
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If you have a good interface... should work out I'd hope, but if you have a crappy USB-MIDI interface like myself (mbox2), you may well find the latency to be unusable for many things.. i sure do.

Syncing to hardware is another story(as in, syncing the MP201 to other hardware, not ableton), rock solid timing in my experience, but as I've found, Ableton is definitely not know for its timing, neither are DAW's in general.. Anyway, something to think about. A firewire interface is high on my list of things to get, and hopefully that alone will solve the issue to a usable level.
 
#57
fightthepower said:
If you have a good interface... should work out I'd hope, but if you have a crappy USB-MIDI interface like myself (mbox2), you may well find the latency to be unusable for many things.. i sure do.

Syncing to hardware is another story, rock solid timing in my experience, but as I've found, Ableton is definitely not know for its timing, neither are DAW's in general.. Anyway, something to think about. A firewire interface is high on my list of things to get, and hopefully that alone will solve the issue to a usable level.
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so far we haven't had latency issues running our drummer's Roland SPD unit, so hopefully that holds true for the Moog. i hear you about Ableton, but right now it's what we're working with. we'll change programs if we must.
 
#58
latency shouldn't be an issue if all you're talking about is midi clock sync... if you're talking about plugins, soft synths, or live sampling, you're looking for trouble, but if all it's doing is spitting out clock for an lfo to be locked to a click, ableton live should be totally solid...

but as i said before, i haven't done anything with sync, it's just manual/luck...

as far as gigs go, it's looking like we'll be at Le Poisson Rouge on May 16th... not 100% confirmed yet, but should be soon.... also will most likely have some more regular gigs in nyc this summer. we're focusing on the party in the usa this year.

john

john
 
#59
JohnDavisNYC said:
latency shouldn't be an issue if all you're talking about is midi clock sync... but if all it's doing is spitting out clock for an lfo to be locked to a click, ableton live should be totally solid...

but as i said before, i haven't done anything with sync, it's just manual/luck...
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firstly, that's a riot - the recordings sound locked. secondly, it'll be fun to experiment with this once i've got the unit in hand.



JohnDavisNYC said:
as far as gigs go, it's looking like we'll be at Le Poisson Rouge on May 16th... not 100% confirmed yet, but should be soon.... also will most likely have some more regular gigs in nyc this summer. we're focusing on the party in the usa this year.
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incredible - i've got hits in Pennsylvania on the 14th and 15th, should be rolling back through NYC on the 16th. let us know when this is locked down!
 

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