So, the two-man improvisational electro-jazz outfit my guitar player buddy and I have talked about for years became reality tonight. In my garage, with my XP laptop running Reason 2.0, and Jason busting out on my Pan ES-335 copy, we jammed something fierce tonight. It was completely awesome, and we didn’t really even know what the fuck we were doing. Sometimes, with music, that’s better though.
It’s incredibly akin to the tracks I banged out years ago with Cakewalk and then Acid. But with far more depth. Plus, since I’m actually PLAYING Reason, the percussion parts have a much more natural feel than the looped stuff I got by with in the past. Live drum machine programming is something of a bitch. But it’s also not something one hears every day.
It will grow into something quite cool, methinks. I already have a better feeling about it than I did my last band. Fully awesome. I wished we would have recorded it.
maybe next tuesday.
May 28th, 2005 at 6:41 am
You should try it with two laptops and a mixer between them…so that you can queue stuff before it comes blaring out the speakers…
Might make things a bit easier…or vastly more complicated, depending on how you look at it. But it would at least give you a little buffer so that not every errant mouse click fucks up the primary sound.
May 30th, 2005 at 10:45 am
that would be intense. it would be sick for queuing, though Reason will let you build another drum track while one is playing. So usually I copy and paste the pattern into a new drum machine, alter it as necessary, then flip the switch when the time comes. Reason is a sick ass program.
I ended our set last night by knocking over my Twilight onto the keyboard. The computer still works fine, but the keyboard is fuxored. At least I can get a replacement for about $30. But that was a shite way to end the set.