How do electronic musicians go about performing?

Hardcore Member Joined: Jun 29, 2009 Posts: 54

So one thing that always confused me was how electronic musicians (computer musicians) went about performing. what programs, what setup, what arrangement. It seems like a lot of time is put in to these works that people put out, I wonder how they get out the door tho.

Supah No0b Joined: Sep 21, 2009 Posts: 5

First off, with vinyl two or more turntables and a midi controller. This is the way it has been done for decades.

Ableton, in the live view. You can also buy a midi for this but check in the options under midi to see a list of midi controllers and keyboards which are supported

Next tracktor, Pretty good software but a midi is required.

VDj, same story as tracktor only it looks diffrent.

And my personal fav. Serato. Its almost the same as using vinyl only you can digitaly load your tracks via laptop on to the special serato vinyl's.

Maximum Pwnrdrive Joined: Dec 10, 2008 Posts: 325

Basically everyone is different...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdu9yeyGyzU

Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2009 8:58 pm

Like this :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZSBC2ZtMv4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srrf44JkN40

Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2009 9:02 pm

"Every man have is technic ... when you'll know mine ... you will be dead"

I don't remember the name of the movie that contain this sentence but I love it hehehe

free pwny ridez! Joined: Feb 23, 2007 Posts: 1061

make a set then press spacebar

Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 4:56 am

abletons my favorite way to go, theres a lot of great internal effects and youll never run out of vst effects

right now im working with a novation sl 25 remote, great controller btw

the thing about playing live with a midi that makes it interesting is all the different ways you can intuitively set up your controllers, the possibilities are endless

i have like 5 full different sets of parameters mapped out in different saved files and i still dont know which one to stick with

Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 7:27 am

Whatever you do don't let people tell you how to not play live.
Do what is fun even if that means pressing play and dancing with everyone else (way more fun than edits imo)

Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 5:10 pm

tbh most of us just press play on winamp and then fuck around on forums so it looks like we're doing something. i like to catch up on various correspondences during this time, and also stalk hot chicks on facebook. i'm currently trying to figure out how to map common facebook functions to a midi controller.

Pwner Joined: Jun 07, 2007 Posts: 257

MarkyPoo wrote:

Do what is fun even if that means pressing play and dancing with everyone else (way more fun than edits imo)

or indeed, dancing on your own

Member Joined: Jan 09, 2010 Posts: 26

In my opinion it can be quite boring to just play your own songs. I really enjoy to produce some new stuff or to simply rearrange my stuff on stage. My dancing style is like...selling nails, you know.

Supah No0b Joined: Apr 05, 2011 Posts: 5

cuttingagent wrote:

tbh most of us just press play on winamp and then fuck around on forums so it looks like we're doing something. i like to catch up on various correspondences during this time, and also stalk hot chicks on facebook.

Ha ha ! I'm going to have to start doing this

Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 5:05 pm

Nerd wrote:

cuttingagent wrote:

tbh most of us just press play on winamp and then fuck around on forums so it looks like we're doing something. i like to catch up on various correspondences during this time, and also stalk hot chicks on facebook.

Ha ha ! I'm going to have to start doing this

Me too. It sounds fucking fantastic! Way better than breakcore anyway.

Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 5:18 pm

No exlanation ... just watch hehehe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3HzhTawHf8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpO6-3LFsvg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4dm0rM-G5U

n0Ob Joined: Apr 07, 2011 Posts: 1

Cogix wrote:

First off, with vinyl two or more turntables and a midi controller. This is the way it has been done for decades.

Ableton, in the live view. You can also buy a midi for this but check in the options under midi to see a list of midi controllers and keyboards which are supported

Next tracktor, Pretty good software but a midi is required.

VDj, same story as tracktor only it looks diffrent.

And my personal fav. Serato. Its almost the same as using vinyl only you can digitaly load your tracks via laptop on to the special serato vinyl's.

YOU ARE NOT AN ELECTRONIC MUSICIAN. YOU ARE A DJ.