MPC + DSI Evolver + MeeBlip + SQ Multi-trak + EH MemoryMan + Monotron
Liner Notes: This is it, my very first YouTube upload as well as the first video of me playing my live beat-making setup. (By 'live' I mean, it's not connected to a computer and could theoretically set it up up anywhere I could plug in. The chances of me playing out in the near future remain small.)
You might think I would use the occasion, such as it is, to put together and post something more polished. The mix is straight off the board into so a Yamaha Pocket-track —who knew that recording into a handheld digital recorder would sound so small? I'll figure out how to use my real converters for the next one. (Plus the audio/video sync being a few ms off; I'll get that sorted.) But you know what, I don't need to sweat it. I'll make another soon. This has my cat making an appearance towards the end other than just sleeping, so I'm keeping it.
Gear nerd info.
The tricked-out MPC1k is driving this. The beat mashed out from some one-shot samples cut from a loop library I bought somewhere along the line. The sustained organ bass notes are also samples, sequenced on another track. I'm not in song mode; I'm shuffling between a few sequences. The insta-IDM synth sequence is of course the DSI Evolver, clocked to the MPC. The bell/lead sound I play on the outro is not samples but a MeeBlip, with a generous helping sent to the EH Memory Man, played from a chromatic MIDI-out setup on the MPC. The SeqCir MultiTrak is a MIDI sequence also on the MPC. The Multitrack really should have gone through a preamp, even if just a crappy ART Tube or the preamps on the mixing board. Which by the way doesn't have proper send/aux, or mute solo, which is a hassle; it does have tons of inputs so there's that. Using the 'Record' outs I've kludged a aux send for delay; it'll do for now.
Oh yeah. I threw in some Monotron.
Yeah, for promotional videos for music gear,@WeAreElektron pretty much won. Game over.
I'm now seeing some excerpts floating around, but this is the whole 8 minute 'Olsen Twins for drugged hipsters' epic.
On one hand that shit is a brain worm that I can't turn away from and I wonder if whomever thought of it is kind of a genius; on the other it seems by and for the kind of twatwaffles you see on Look at this Fucking Hipster: Not something really created, just cultural detritus appropriated semi-ironically and used as groaningly obvious joke.
Either way, it a hypnotic and somehow disturbing video.