Mixing with midi controllers (keyboards) ?

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Posted by Neo Hacker on Sep-11-2007 17:11:

Mixing with midi controllers (keyboards) ?

Paul Van Dyk does, but I don't understand why.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nyV_oxmQYw

Please help me out understand...who the hell do you mix with a keyboard ??

Thanks !

Neo

Posted by Ryan0751 on Sep-11-2007 17:49:

Re: Mixing with midi controllers (keyboards) ?

He's clearly playing some chords over the track...

Seems like what he's doing has minimal impact, but it looks cool. I could be wrong though... hard to tell.

quote:
Originally posted by Neo Hacker
Paul Van Dyk does, but I don't understand why.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nyV_oxmQYw

Please help me out understand...who the hell do you mix with a keyboard ??

Thanks !

Neo

Posted by Neo Hacker on Sep-11-2007 17:52:

Re: Re: Mixing with midi controllers (keyboards) ?

quote:
Originally posted by Ryan0751
He's clearly playing some chords over the track...

ok so he's adding stuff that my crappy computer headphones can't play ?

Watching him playing, I though he was starting the song with the keyboards...I thought this was kinda weird.

Posted by Drake44444 on Sep-11-2007 19:23:

I saw him a few months ago and he used the keyboard, without looping, to play some parts on top of songs

Posted by miamitranceman on Sep-11-2007 20:01:

That's pretty cool. He's probably just bored after all these gigs of doing the same old thing, so he's mixing things up a little.

Posted by stan229 on Sep-12-2007 00:12:

You can hear the stuff he's playing on the keyboard
He uses Ableton + xone3d to actually mix though and uses his keyboards/midi controllers and xone3d to do his live reediting

Posted by epdarks on Sep-13-2007 02:36:

Could you go into more depth Stan? Does the keyboard trigger loops from abelton? I'm not getting it.

Posted by rizo on Sep-13-2007 03:12:

pvd had 2 laptops w/ abelton live, 2 midi keyboards, trigger finger? and one other midi device along w/ xone 3D going on at once! at least last time at 1015 he did

cant wait for Sept 28

Posted by stan229 on Sep-13-2007 04:39:

quote:
Originally posted by epdarks
Could you go into more depth Stan? Does the keyboard trigger loops from abelton? I'm not getting it.

One of hte keyboards is definately hooked up to a soft-synth VST that he plays notes on, he also uses one of them (maybe hte trigger finger) as his drum machine or to fire off samples, and he can launch effects off either his xone3d or one of the other midi controllers

the first laptop that runs ableton is used for tracklaunching while the second one is used for VSTs i believe