This has been out for a while, but I have been torn between the Korg padKONTROL and M-Audio’s Trigger Finger. I was looking at the Trigger Finger for DJing because it has faders and more assignable knobs… But now I’m thinking I can just keep using my UC-33 for levels and grab one of these for live drumming and sample triggering. It’s less knobs, but the ease of programming and the X-Y controls make it much more desirable to me.
Since I got into Ableton Live, I’ve really just been DJing with it, with some looping and effects and running more channels of audio than I was able to do with my traditional vinyl or CD setups. More and more though, I’m getting a little “bored” with just playing someone else’s music quite so much so I’m wanting to get more into production and live remixing again. I’m thinking the padKONTROL lends itself to that quite nicely. Would be great for live drumming, sample triggering and studio drum programming at the very least.
I just bought an Axiom 25 this summer to use as a main keyboard. It’s only 25 keys, but I’m really just getting started so I don’t need a full keyboard just yet. I could definitely use the X-Y controls and the nicer pads on the padKONTROL though. The Axiom 25 has pads, but they aren’t very nice.
Unfortunately though, all gear purchases are going to have to wait until after the holidays, which means I need to figure out how to get the pads on the Axiom to assign to another channel different from the keys. I’m pretty sure it does that… And maybe I can program my really old Kaoss Pad (I bought the first version, ages ago) to act as a simple X-Y control.
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Happy Halloween, everybody!
I’m hoping to post a dark and evil psytrance mix, or something else entirely over at ryptidemusic.com, so watch for that later tonight! I’ll also be putting each of my cats in this funny mask thing I found at Goodwill a few weeks ago. Hilarity will ensue. Pownce treats will be doled out. Pictures will be posted.
Other than that, I have no plans. Palace of Wonders is doing something, so I may mosey down that way to see what that’s all about.
Thank goodness.
It’s been a long, slow and dreary week. I’m excited about the weather getting cooler, though. I actually needed an extra blanket last night!
Tonight I’m off to Baltimore. Tomorrow night is the Superheroes/Supervillains party and I *think* I’ve finally decided who my alter ego is. Delaware on Sunday afternoon/evening, then back here to start the week again.
Leopard launches today, and I will probably pick it up next week sometime. I intend to pay $29 for it, as I’m going to use my $100 iPhone credit for the difference. There’s some stuff coming in Leopard that I’m excited about. I may get a .Mac account early next year to take advantage of some of the benefits .Mac brings with Leopard — most of which hinge around having multiple Macs, which I don’t have. We’ll see.
In other news, my birthday is coming soon and everyone should buy me things. Here’s my Amazon Wishlist and my ThinkGeek Wishlist. I also take cash and credit.
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I’ve finally gotten around to formalizing my Unified Theory of Bacon.
I welcome observations from the community. As a man of science, I accept that my theory may be flawed, as it does not consider the possibility that another food unimproved by bacon may in fact be present when observing quantum particles…. mmm… Schrödinger’s Bacon… I digress. Here is the theory.
I. Every food product perseveres in its state of being delicious or of not being delicious, except insofar as it is compelled to change its state by bacon impressed.
II. The rate of change of deliciousness of a food product is proportional to the resultant bacon acting on the food and is in the same direction as the bacon vector.
III. When the food product acted upon by bacon is of cheese persuasion, the deliciousness of the acting bacon force is increased with a rate of change proportional to the cheese force.
Therefore, all food products’ deliciousness is increased by the addition of bacon, except for cheese which in turn increases the deliciousness of bacon.
Additionally, it can be said that the whole of combined bacon and cheese products is in fact greater than the sum of the parts by a power of 2. Or b + c = bc2
I don’t think I’ve written about Improv Everywhere before. They are basically a group of people that plan out clever social experiments on the unsuspecting public. Their latest “No Shirts” mission ventures into shirtless male mecca, also known as Abercrombie & Fitch. I love it.
I need more free time so I can start a group like this in DC. Mostly because I thoroughly enjoy messing with people.
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