Rob's blog

On the “Tunnelvision” album I recorded wit producer Mark de Clive-Lowe we used a lot of drum-samples coming out of Mark’s MPC -3000.  So how to get this “electronic/programmed sound” to the stage without losing the freedom I want to have as a Jazzmusician?

The solution we chose was Ableton Live software running on a Macbook with a couple of midicontrollers played by Martin Rascher. Martin can control now which sample plays when, add effects as filters and delays, create breaks etc on stage and I still have the freedom to stretch forms and improvise, going places we didn’t know we were going!

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