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keyboard
integration
from: Dr. Martin
Luther Keys
dialup252-232.dotcomisp.net
04-04-05 ::: 22:46
Some people have a dream, I just a have a few keyboards, in this
pic we see the couch and the X-stand perfectly integrated to
hold 2 keyboards, with very quick tear in tear out, the rack
behind them has the Akai Z4 on the right, with it USB'ed to
chug6, housing Reaktor, on the left. Chug5, the middle PC,
houses PARIS, for multitrack recording and mixing. To the right
of that is my 10 year old 486, chug1, still running Texture
4.25, the midi sequencer in DOS, from the "stone age".
You don't see chug4 off camera, far, far left, housing
GIGASAMPLER, Cakewalk Professional 8, and older Reaktor , its my
"legacy" machine. Popeye-X is very "legacy",
as opposed to "cutting edge". There are 4 PC's, all
are serious studio machines, one is from the 80's, so it is just
midi, the other 3 are each a studio unto itself, the newest,
chug6, is a full blown XP big dog, with Reaktor testicles down
to its knees. I don't use these like most of today's computer
recordists, all functions on one PC as a kind of expanded
computer related "hobby". I come from an earlier era
when we used tape recorders and instruments. I have replaced my
tape machines with hard drives. I have entered a new era
creatively with Reaktor, a software instrument. It has allowed
me to tap into MYSELF in a way that runs deeper than my previous
access to my own musical identity. I can use that machine like
an oil well, to tap into hidden reserves and draw out the magic
goo. The rest of the gear is a refinery to boil it down, using
all the old fashioned methods I learned by recording for 30
years. After a 10 year hiatus, I have resumed playing the
electric guitar like a maniac into all hours of the night. This
was inspired by a "kid" with a 7 string. In the photo
you can see my latest electric guitar, a Carvin 7 string, its
the best guitar I've ever touched, I've altered my technique to
more of a fingerstyle, and the extra string drives me nuts every
time I play, it makes me get it "wrong". That's what I
need to shake me out of the rut I was in. I've tried to apply
this same monkey wrench across the board, that's the whole point
of Reaktor. |
