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Quite! > On Jan 1, 2020, at 8:46 AM, Simeon Harris > <simeonharris40@googlemail.com> wrote: > > amazing stuff, dude! > >> On 1 Jan 2020, at 16:37, The Wandering Madman >> <thewanderingmadman@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> tldr: If time is short then just be sure to watch the video, happy new >> year! All audio / video recorded live, no post production of any kind. >> 16 stereo looping tracks via Mobius & 6 webcams auto-switching enabled >> by VDMX. >> >> Live Looping - Mirrorball by Elbow / The Wandering Madman >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1_I1Rhhojo >> >> So I would imagine this day 1/1/2020 represents something special to >> everyone, but in my mind I always looked forward to what the musical >> landscape would be like and hoped live-looping would reside at the >> forefront. I enjoy the honesty & accomplishment & technical wizardry >> necessary to make this type of music possible and for those of you who >> don’t know me, I’ve spent about 12 years (8 of which living in a box >> truck) trying to build this ridiculous ultimate live-looping rig that >> could implement a larger computer and seemingly endless musical >> possibilities & plugins. My rig has now grown to a 10core i9 self-built >> hackintosh running Mojave & utilizing 16 stereo looping tracks of >> Mobius as well as MainStage for my DAW / tone management. >> >> What you see in this video is accomplished using some customized >> techniques / scripts that allow me to use the same MIDI foot button >> over & over & over again, all while executing an entirely new set of >> commands each time I push the button. There are typically 30-40 button >> presses per song and the timing is somewhat precise but becomes second >> nature after a few hundred attempts. This technique eliminates all the >> fancy footwork & also allows me to accomplish 10 or 20 different >> actions all at once with a single button press. These actions include >> engaging track records, overdubs, volume, mutes, pan, reverse, loop >> switching, tone changing, syncing external hardware patches, etc…. I >> can even make individual LED lights change color & brightness on my >> piano to help me remember what octave I need to play the particular >> synth part in. MIDI IS AWESOME!! I can set these triggers to happen >> immediately upon pressing the button or on the next downbeat, as all my >> songs are typically the same tempo start to finish and I play along to >> a metronome in my headphones, so there is a useful grid of sorts. The >> collection of all these commands exists as a simple, single text >> document which Mobius reads & runs throughout the song and for example >> this song Mirrorball has 35 button presses, contains 1773 lines of code >> and utilizes 22,451 characters in the script. >> >> There are no pre-recorded tracks whatsoever, I always start with an >> empty canvas and I’m anxious to release another video showing everyone >> the Mobius UI, which will explain how all this stuff happens in real >> time. All of my live-looping music seems more like a >> live-orchestration, so for me there is not much improv but that doesn’t >> mean this methodology couldn’t help other people/musicians accomplish >> different things with it. In my looping style it certainly feels like a >> Formula1 or dirt-rally race car driver who is aiming for a perfect run >> on the course, building the songs turn by turn, layer by layer; and >> many times I crash into the wall!!! It gets quite tricky and I have a >> few visual systems that help me stay on course if I need to remember >> what particular action comes next in the song. >> >> I really wanted to share this inside-info to loopers-delight before any >> other platform as I truly enjoyed this email list back when I first >> fell into the rabbit hole of live-looping. I appreciate all the info >> you guys provided and I hope everyone is doing well. Please enjoy the >> new year and I will be releasing a few more videos over the next month. >> Any assistance you can lend in getting this music heard is much >> appreciated. Special thanks to Mobius & MainStage developers for really >> making this all possible. >> >> >> —The Wandering Madman >> >>