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Posted by me on 24.1.2005 in Recordings | 0 comments

Sequencer Multitrack Improvisation (i.e. I just played; for the imrovised pieces just what came to my mind)

Rochus Keller: Composition & Arrangement (I played all instruments myself)

I’m pleased to introduce my new toy. This is a long waited device finally able to play a whole production out of one tiny box. It has 16 channels, eight of which equiped with great sounding insert effects. In contrast to my earlier equipment the solo guitar sounds keep their size when switching to multi mode. Have a listen to my first trials (© 2005 by Rochus Keller):

• Soul improvisation
• RTS (an old piece of mine)
• Radha Kundha (another old piece of mine from 1986)
• Slow blues impro
• Fast blues impro
• 7/8 imrpo
• Salsa impro
• Gandalf
• Turn around (another old piece from 1986)
• Lonely Friend (another old piece form 1993)
• Abendstimmung (another old piece)
• I Like Miles (impro)
• Jou Jou Drive (impro)
• Pure Joy (another old piece)
• Schräger Jazz (impro)
• Spain Drive (another old piece)
• Ziemlich Heavy (impro)
• Minimal Funk (impro)
• New Direction (impro)
• Silent World (impro)
• Standard groove 

(License: Creative Commons by-nc-sa)

All tracks were played straight trhough, first take, no quantisation. I recorded the pieces using Cubase SX 2. The ES was directly connected to the PC using USB (I had to upgrade to the most recent Yamaha driver to make it work). Yamaha delivers a device XML file compatible to Cubase which is very helpful. I connected two master keyboards (Yamaha KX88 and KX5) directly to the midi in of the ES. The MP3 files were directly recorded from the ES over SP/DIF (using WaveLab 5 running on the same computer and at the same time like Cubase).

And here is a picture: