Retro Jam Movie Mashup BRING THEM HOME Live impro on 2 Elektron Analog Four mk2, #Digitakt #KaossPro

As before, was treating the audio from my live while downloading some public domain films and these just worked well together - so yesterdays live performance, remastered audio with 'Why we Fight and Birth of a Nation (sans racist elements)'

A live stream music performance composed © Gary P Hayes in Mount Victoria, Blue Mountains, Australia 10 Oct 2021

Mashed with rev edits of two Public domain films, in order:
1 Why We Fight pt 4 : The Battle of Britain (credit US Gov 1942)
2 Birth of a Nation : Dir / CoProd D.W.Griffith 1915

Music & Video streamed from a ZoomQ2n4k

Put this little powerhouse of a kit together and thought I would try a LIVE with it today, mostly custom patches and many created on the fly, in performance style (probably a mix of genre from ambient, to chill, to abstract and might end on apocalypse industrial, who knows!), The A4s will both be on synth duty, a mix of 1 or 2 pads, sequencer and solo sounds on each as the digitakt can do basic rhythm for this - the idea in the future though is just the two A4s with one being 2 sLocked rhythm tracks for example. I will also be trying out aftertouch (only channel on elektron sadly) at the start on a couple of patches, but really trying to get a cohesive story and performance as goal - REMEMBER this will be the first time I have tried this setup so the process will be a little shaky!

Tech notes:
I quickly built this racking system yesterday afternoon, that allows the A4s to be diagonally opposite (for ergonomic reasons) and space for digitakt and cycles (if I go full Elektron) or for Kaoss (in pic), volcas and other small addons...
also a keystep, microfreak (or XKey37 with aftertouch here) can slide underneath for more keyboard control or polyphony ...
incidentally the two A4s are fed directly into the Digitakt so I can use the mastering chain in there and also frees up each A4s stereo inputs for mentioned other stuff like the Kaoss fed to lower A4 here 🙂 -
also also, re: sequencing I can use the 8 midi tracks of the DT to play 4 each on the A4s (chs 9-16) so I can double up on sequence lines if required (locally on the A4s and a different non modulation one on the DT) but today I am going to do any sequencing just on the A4s fed from XKey- and I am using a midi merge to combine out from digitakt with the XKey37 which contains Aftertouch (the digitakt can't record or pass that through) to the A4s ... still fine tuning, but a great little small footprint power setup 🙂

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