Against All Odds - Cross Controllerism
Posted: 12 Jan 2013, 11:04So yesterday I had a unique experience, and I'm sure the audience and the Jury had one too: I attended a "Who-Knows-What" type talent show, in local town, where I stood on stage with my pack of controllers (MV Control Pro, Akai MPK Mini), my Laptop running Cross, and me and my nasty T-Shirt, and silly hat, and as from the faces I've seen during packing up on stage, I was like: Jeese these guys haven't seen stuff like this.
It was fun, 'cause I introduced myself not as a DJ, but as a Controllerist, and explained the crowd that ts is very similar to pianists and Guitarist, but the instrument is different. I also added that like a guitar can broke a string mid-performance, my stuff can crash on me, so if that happens, my show will end with a beautiful windows Shutdown sound.
I wasn't that nervous before, my hand-vibration was visible, and we had litle problem putting sound out, as the main stage guy forgot to tell the technicians to pull up the fader on my F-ed Up channel... Finally sound comming out in the form of kicks and snares fingered manually, so I started the show.
I used everything in Cross, both controllers. I set up my controller stand, so it can hold both controllers, and in a way, that it was leaning towards the crowd, so they could see WTF I'm doing there.
I started a finger drumming sequence using only a kick and a snare, and than loops made from the same stuff, and started to layer my sh*t on top of it
I actually used the fact of my PC, and ha a little trick of putting together a nice windwos error sound sequence and putting a shutdown sound to the end (The XP ones, everyone know them), laughter all over the place, untill I pressed play again, to start the second half of my performance.
In the end, I was like: Controllerism works, and the miracle, that my stuff didn't fail on me, it was FUNtastic feeling
So against oll odds, here is some specs with my stuff, to finish this post, and buttom note:
CONTROLLERISM WITH Cross IS POSSIBLE! I'LL WORK TO BRING IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL (Me and the software as well)!
Ps: Didn't record it yet, I think I'll rather make a vid about it, but maybe next month.
Specs:
4 year-old ASUS F5V AP055 laptop:
Inter T2130 CPU (1,8 GHz)
2 GB DDR2 667 MHz memory (2 1-gig modules in each slot).
500GB SATA Samsung HDD (Handled in IDE mode, no SATA suport )
Ati X2300 VGA (128MB internal Graphic memory, a fine GPU unit)
4 USB slots
(3 on side, one on back).
Hand-hacked turbo fan
Notebook cooler stand
Controllers:
U-Mix Control Pro (USB Powered - factory mapping)
Akai MPK Mini (USB powered, handled locators and samples, bi-filters, and sample volume levels).
Note: I mapped my Mpk Mini to handle both samplers in the same time mapping the piano keyboard to handle sample triggers, and I used the pads, for locators. During the performance, I only used one of the samplers.
Used stuff in Cross:
U-Mix Control Pro soundcard, buffer size was 512 XD
all 8 locators (Fatboy Slim - Rockafeller Skank, and Sampler C filled up, with drumloops and drumhits).
Used bipolar filters
Used Brake and Rolleffects
+45% pitch on first track full of locators - Master Tempo on (no Quantize - controllerists don't Quantize )
It was fun, 'cause I introduced myself not as a DJ, but as a Controllerist, and explained the crowd that ts is very similar to pianists and Guitarist, but the instrument is different. I also added that like a guitar can broke a string mid-performance, my stuff can crash on me, so if that happens, my show will end with a beautiful windows Shutdown sound.
I wasn't that nervous before, my hand-vibration was visible, and we had litle problem putting sound out, as the main stage guy forgot to tell the technicians to pull up the fader on my F-ed Up channel... Finally sound comming out in the form of kicks and snares fingered manually, so I started the show.
I used everything in Cross, both controllers. I set up my controller stand, so it can hold both controllers, and in a way, that it was leaning towards the crowd, so they could see WTF I'm doing there.
I started a finger drumming sequence using only a kick and a snare, and than loops made from the same stuff, and started to layer my sh*t on top of it
I actually used the fact of my PC, and ha a little trick of putting together a nice windwos error sound sequence and putting a shutdown sound to the end (The XP ones, everyone know them), laughter all over the place, untill I pressed play again, to start the second half of my performance.
In the end, I was like: Controllerism works, and the miracle, that my stuff didn't fail on me, it was FUNtastic feeling
So against oll odds, here is some specs with my stuff, to finish this post, and buttom note:
CONTROLLERISM WITH Cross IS POSSIBLE! I'LL WORK TO BRING IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL (Me and the software as well)!
Ps: Didn't record it yet, I think I'll rather make a vid about it, but maybe next month.
Specs:
4 year-old ASUS F5V AP055 laptop:
Inter T2130 CPU (1,8 GHz)
2 GB DDR2 667 MHz memory (2 1-gig modules in each slot).
500GB SATA Samsung HDD (Handled in IDE mode, no SATA suport
)Ati X2300 VGA (128MB internal Graphic memory, a fine GPU unit)
4 USB slots
(3 on side, one on back).Hand-hacked turbo fan
Notebook cooler stand
Controllers:
U-Mix Control Pro (USB Powered - factory mapping)
Akai MPK Mini (USB powered, handled locators and samples, bi-filters, and sample volume levels).
Note: I mapped my Mpk Mini to handle both samplers in the same time mapping the piano keyboard to handle sample triggers, and I used the pads, for locators. During the performance, I only used one of the samplers.
Used stuff in Cross:
U-Mix Control Pro soundcard, buffer size was 512 XD
all 8 locators (Fatboy Slim - Rockafeller Skank, and Sampler C filled up, with drumloops and drumhits).
Used bipolar filters
Used Brake and Rolleffects
+45% pitch on first track full of locators - Master Tempo on (no Quantize - controllerists don't Quantize
)
proud of you ,,looking foward to vid or even sound cloud recording , 
