this has been my live setup lately. i feel i’m done tweaking it. beyond the actual gear, a big revelation happened recently that has really made me happy in my approach to live shows. for a long time i had been trying to incorporate my favorite eurorack voices ( mangroves, just friends ) in an a lofi beat / ambient / improvised / live remix setting. after a couple years of messing around i realized that dialing in a tone, improvising a sequence then live sampling it all on the spot was becoming too cumbersome for me maybe not the funnest thing to perform. then i had my revelation. instead of dialing in the tone / sequence live, i could pre-record long takes of me comfortably in the the “sweet spot” and load those long takes ( a few minutes at least, post processed in my daw ) in to my octatrack and morphagene. i could then just sample mangle live. the way it’s worked for me is i have my song broken down in to stems in the octatrack, a track or two loaded up with these long takes ( usually about 7 minutes in the octatrack ) then a track live sampling my ipad and modular ( running samplr / borderland / audulus ). with this setup, i feel like i can concentrate on the fun stuff ( sample mangling and using modulation to create new sequences etc ) without getting boring or lacking variety. anyway hope my ramblings help others in their own journey somehow.
and here is a “setting” shot of a live stream i did today with this setup. my partner and i jammed. she was performing some beautiful live coded visuals.
