Live Machines

Updated regularly. Live machines. Long sets. Unobtrusive laptops. Techno... mostly. Submit YouTube links to [email protected]

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Part 2 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4OSvQ2Isa4 – the controlled insanity of Richard Devine’s modular live rig. 

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CopperLan

For anyone trying to connect external MIDI gear – and tighten up timing & sync – give CopperLan a shot. I'm finding success with it so far, and am surprised at the lack of info online. A quick search of SoundonSound magazine reveals literally no articles on the subject despite being in development since 2010. 

CopperLan is kind of like Logic's MIDI Environment but hosted outside of the DAW (where it should be, to be honest) so your real-world MIDI routing and studio configuration can be re-used with any software / hardware; in fact any computer on your local network, guest laptops can hop on and use your MIDI setup etc. etc. with literally no configuring and almost-zero latency. Very cool. 

The biggest plus point for me is sending MIDI (and CV/Gate and eventually audio, apparently?) over ethernet infrastructure without the jitter or lag of USB-to-MIDI interfaces. This performance requires CopperLan enabled hardware such as the Alyseum AL-88c and MS-812. 

The only direct competitor to CopperLan – apart from the long awaited MIDI-HD which arrives ... soon? – are solutions offered by Expert Sleepers (makers of the most excellent Silent Way DAW to CV/Gate plug-in) but as the ES stuff relies on DAW hosted plug-ins and ties up audio interface outputs I personally found this an imperfect solution to my particular MIDI needs. CopperLan seems ... neater. 

Check out the free CopperLan Manager software / environment at the following link and have a poke ... http://www.copperlan.org

p.s: if you like technical articles – words! – alongside the videos here, let me know one way or another. I’m not going to write for the sake of writing, just now & again where there is something that might be useful for readers. D

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Bladerunner ... 'nuff said.

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A random flow of vignettes – no beginning, no middle and no end – in & around the studio sessions that made up All Hope Is Gone by Slipknot. The biggest contrast I’ve noticed between rock guys and electronic guys is physical playing ability – and I don’t mean this as a diss to the synth geeks – anyone (myself included) can program drums or a lead line in a DAW but to actually sit on a throne and wail sticks around for hours at a time (on time), or hammer out ridiculously fast guitar riffs one after the other ... well, it’s a joy to watch.

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Six part video about Radiohead during the "Kid A" period. Part 1 above.

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It’s been a while, sorry for the pause – moving house, moving studio, shutting down one business, starting a new one, holidays, family, health... anyway – will resume LiveMachines.net but this time will include any music related video I enjoyed watching (for whatever reason). If you came here for the live sets, then just click the ‘live’ tag to filter content. Otherwise, thanks for stopping by. D

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Florian Meindl COLLIDE Studio LIVE Session 2015 Part2

And here is Part2 of the Studio LIVE Session! Enjoy & Share if you like! Thanks...

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on Sunday, 10 May 2015

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Florian Meindl live: OK – so this is not video (boo!) but it is a freaking good live performance so rules, bent.

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Get used to the fact Kink will appear here regularly. No-one else performs and uploads as many live sets – to a consistently high standard – as Kink.

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Studio set from Martin Stürtzer – https://www.youtube.com/user/Pheliopolis

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If people like we can attempt to list all the gear used in each video. Will need some community support for that task, but will start gathering up info.

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