CC1 Sem2 2007: Electromic
ELECTROMIC
The eventual performance model after a lot of prototypes. It will continue to evolve and this is just where time caught us in the process. I call this monster 'Electrom'. Looks harmless enough but is quite labyrinthine. Take a look inside ...
Part 1
Electromic, Parts 1A and 1B. After initially having everything at hand, I quickly realised that was way too much to handle, so I split the set-up with the score, which made a lot of sense as the role of the 'electro' element is different in each section; Part 1 - sound gathering, recording etc and Part 2 manipulation, looping and playback of the collected and processed sonic material. From the shot above, you can see that things are set up for a mic line in. I have a stereo pair at work here.
Part 2
Part 2 is setup for action! No need for any lines in as everything is heading out via the mixer. A selection of three sample playing and looping options, one you can play with the keyboard via MIDI. Boboche Sampler (may be looper?). That option had been working fine until the morning of the final recording when it seems the Plogue goblins had changed something overnight in the bowels of the beast. I investigated until the trombonist's car was pulling up outside. Oddly enough, got it working about 15 minutes after she left!
... and to finish for the year, a shot of the Ableton 'Live' setup. Used for processing, looping and adding one-off doctored samples to the mix. Bus 3-4 was used as an audition send to outboard monitoring via outputs 5-6 of my external audio interface (breakout box). If I was happy with what I heard, I'd drop the sample into a 'Live' track (volume down hopefully!) and bring up. I had the main mix (performance recording mix) in to another two tracks of the monitor mixer (hardware, external) and could therefore hear what my new sample would sound like with the full mix as well as alone.
This instrument is going to take some practice. Now it has reached a playable and stable version for awhile, it will be possible to become quite adept at playing it in time. Great fun until then. Work well with a dedicated MIDI controller keyboard.
Electromic - Sound Files
Electromic1A.mp3
Electromic1B.mp3
Electromic2A.mp3
Electromic2BC.mp3
Electromic - Documentation
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