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Date: 08-Apr-02 @ 02:58 PM -
rs7000 beauty or beast?
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ok so i have had it for several months now. upon getting all excited reading this forum i decided to dump some tracks in.
my current way of working is do it all in sonar, then dump the loops into the RS and beatslice them to get tempo independence.
so i take a song with about 6 drum parts and 6 instrument parts and slice em all into tracks.
the rs7000 has a serious limitation in that you can't switch between tracks (if you are using the internal sampler & efx) without a *way* out of time jump inbetween.
anyway because of this i put all my parts on section A and just mute and unmute to do the track live.
in fiddling around last night here were my major complaints:
1. muting / unmuting really lacks timing accuacy of jumping from section to section. but when you jump from section to section its like you already have your structure set and theres not much way to change it.
2. these dang knobs jump!!! i knew it was there but now its driving me crazy... you run a filter down on one part then jump to the next to run the filter and it jumps to the last setting. its completely unusable unless you are superman and can remember where everything was sitting in the first place and happen to have the track muted...
3. i am finding myself doing the exact same kind of song structures i did when on the computer but in a live setting. i have so far been unable to come up with any moments of glory or whatever because my samples are fixed, all i can do is filter them. i suppose once i write some tracks with the nord playing live that could get more interesting but i only have so many hands and its enough just to keep the mutes, unmutes going.
so any advice here?
should i start using the sections instead of the mutes so i don't have to worry about breakdowns and buildups but i have free hands to tweak the nord etc?
should i buy native instruments kontakt and bring a computer out with me and use the RS to sequence that as a sampler? (this fixes the gap between tracks and the knob jumping)
or should i just sell the RS and continue to just dj my own tracks as i have been doing...
its not that i didn't expect to run into obsticles, its just that if my live show adds no benefit over my statically recorded material then i am not sure why i am attempting it
jamey