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THanks for sharing your work! Enjoyed the video and your tasteful arrangement of that piece. Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.perboysen.com www.youtube.com/perboysen www.boysen.se On Wed, Jan 1, 2020 at 5:46 PM 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 > > >