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Posted by Mecca82 on Mar-05-2008 22:48:

sasha & digweed question

how do they play together when they perforM?

back 2 back? i know sasha uses ableton and digweed uses cdj (correct?)
how do they perform together... like they play music together? or one at a time? or... someone please explain to me...

what makes them different than seeing them individually?

thanks...

Posted by bucke on Mar-05-2008 23:08:

Re: sasha & digweed question

quote:
Originally posted by Mecca82
how do they play together when they perforM?

back 2 back? i know sasha uses ableton and digweed uses cdj (correct?)
how do they perform together... like they play music together? or one at a time? or... someone please explain to me...

what makes them different than seeing them individually?

thanks...

yeah actually i was sort of wondering the same thing.

....but what makes them different than seeing them individually is you get a mixed dose of each of their style of music, and they definitely have different styles. so they're twice as good together than alone. hehe

Posted by 72hrpartyanimal on Mar-05-2008 23:31:

up and down... back and forth... left to right...

roller coaster ride... x 1 billion!!

Posted by Clovis on Mar-05-2008 23:35:

It seems most often they either do 30 min sets for a bit b2b, and then do more of the 3, 2, or 1 track each tagging towards the end of the night. Or, like on NYE @ Giant, they started off going b2b with 1-2 each and then later on they would switch off for 20-30 minute sets before going b2b 2 each again. It seems like they just go with whatever they feel like and keep it pretty open.

As for the mixing, Sasha plays off the ableton/mac and Digweed uses 2-3 CDJs + an efx-1000. Both plug into a Xone 92 and the b2b mixing happens there.

Posted by bucke on Mar-06-2008 00:12:

quote:
Originally posted by Clovis
As for the mixing, Sasha plays off the ableton/mac and Digweed uses 2-3 CDJs + an efx-1000. Both plug into a Xone 92 and the b2b mixing happens there.

then what is the role of the maven controller in this whole setup if all the mixing is done on the xone92?

Posted by Clovis on Mar-06-2008 00:51:

quote:
Originally posted by bucke
then what is the role of the maven controller in this whole setup if all the mixing is done on the xone92?

Sahsa has Maven's master out plugged into 1 channel on the xone, and he does all his ableton mixing with the Maven. I believe that when they go b2b he does all his eqing and mixing using maven and the channel on the xone just stays open and un touched.

Posted by Clovis on Mar-06-2008 01:02:

quote:
Originally posted by mattW
Good question. I was wondering the same thing.

NYE TAO 2008:

See above.

Posted by mattW on Mar-06-2008 01:04:

lol. I thought the photo didn't show up on the post.

Posted by bucke on Mar-06-2008 01:13:

quote:
Originally posted by Clovis
Sahsa has Maven's master out plugged into 1 channel on the xone, and he does all his ableton mixing with the Maven. I believe that when they go b2b he does all his eqing and mixing using maven and the channel on the xone just stays open and un touched.

great explanation clovis!

now explain pvd's setup and why he uses 2 laptops and what all those midi controllers do and what they are hooked up to.

Posted by 72hrpartyanimal on Mar-06-2008 01:18:

Posted by bucke on Mar-06-2008 01:55:

quote:
Originally posted by 72hrpartyanimal
i think 1 is set up for abelton, the other is set up for his "live" session (keyboard)

technically he should be able to do both on 1 laptop though....hmmmm

Posted by progressiveMOJO on Mar-06-2008 01:57:

wonder what that Xone:V6 is doing all lonely up there...

Posted by llavoe on Mar-06-2008 03:14:

quote:
Originally posted by progressiveMOJO
wonder what that Xone:V6 is doing all lonely up there...

Acts as a median between Xone 92/CD's and Maven/Mac as Sasha uses mostly digital sounds. There are channels on the V6 to make sure digital sounds do not overpower a CD or any other non digital source...

Posted by bas on Mar-06-2008 03:43:

quote:
Originally posted by 72hrpartyanimal
i think 1 is set up for abelton, the other is set up for his "live" session (keyboard)

What?

Posted by mar46017 on Mar-06-2008 03:52:

Never seen Sasha and Digweed together but this event caught my eye

Posted by Clovis on Mar-06-2008 04:57:

quote:
Originally posted by bucke
great explanation clovis!

now explain pvd's setup and why he uses 2 laptops and what all those midi controllers do and what they are hooked up to.

I can't explain PVD's setup since it makes no fucking sense at all. He used to have 1 laptop running serato and another running ableton, now they're both on ableton and he has like 60 different midi controllers all around a Xone 3D (which imo could handle the rest with the exception of the keyboard). As far as I can tell from photos showing the ableton screens, he's mostly just playing full tracks or parts of them looped and using the keyboard to play certain parts of his songs. It's completely rediculous and I don't understand it at all.

quote:
Originally posted by mattW
lol. I thought the photo didn't show up on the post.

I fixed it

Posted by mattW on Mar-06-2008 23:04:

quote:
Originally posted by Clovis

I fixed it

Thanks!

Hmm, I posted a photo before and it worked. What did I do wrong?