Concert report from AHaven?
2006-04-02 by Paul Schreiber
Just wondering how things went last night at the Analog Haven Robert Rich concert? I hope the Frac modules were there :) Paul S. needs to *ship* the Frac modules
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Concert report from AHaven?
Robert Rich Concert Report
2006-04-03 by thomas white
Well I have to say that the Robert Rich show at Analogue Haven was nothing short of amazing. I really enjoyed seeing Robert play live and naturally enjoyed the times when he started turing knobs on the MOTM the best! The MOTM-650 was proudly displayed in the middle of the top row of his synth. Can't wait till my big box comes with my MOTM-650 and other modules recently ordered. Robert played a mixture of music from the incredible new Electric Ladder CD (opened wiht title track) and some older tracks from Bestiary and others. So amazing to see the performance live and at Robert's recommendation at the start of the show I truly did "space out". Many people looked asleep at times but the music was so penetrating that I knew those people were safely away wandering the deeper corners of their minds. The MOTM was in fine form and really strongly used in the show. I loved the live feel to Robert mixing Abletong Live Audio, MIDI sequences and Live Tweaking of the big unit to
make the show happen.
I did not expect the guitar and flute parts to be so interesting live but they really stole the show. That lap guitar sounds so haunting and I enjoyed seeing Robert play it all live. A great show and I hope to make it again next time he comes to my area.
Also I must metion the visuals that went along with the music. Robert's buddy came down from Seattle to play this pre-cut visual movie which was perfectly suited to go along with Robert's set of music. Very, Very nice. I have to admit I left at the intermission since the seats provided to sit on were all hard plastic and a bit rickedy. My but go so num in the 1st 1.5 hour segment I could make it any longer. Robert was going to play his custom built lasers in the second set but I missed out on that.
Yes Paul, the Frac modules were there. It was a tease since all of the synth gear was unplugged and pushed to
the side to make way for the show. Now that I know where Analogue Haven is compared to my house I will be going there to tinker with them and the other fine gear "soon". What a powerful evening!!!! Congrats to MOTM for being such a large part of Robert's amazing show and studio repetoire.
Thomas
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Just wondering how things went last night at the Analog Haven Robert Rich
concert? I hope the Frac modules were there :)
Paul S.
needs to *ship* the Frac modules
Thomas White
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Re: [motm] Robert Rich Concert Report
2006-04-03 by Robert van der Kamp
Thanks for the review! Question: Does RR re-patch his big modular between songs? Or is he using one static patch (cable-wise) and only tweak knobs? - Robert
Re: [motm] Robert Rich Concert Report
2006-04-03 by Pete
When I saw him play up here in San Jose I did not see him unplug anything on his MOTM. I don t think it would be a good idea to mess with the path he had up
Re: [motm] Robert Rich Concert Report
2006-04-03 by Robert van der Kamp
On Monday 03 April 2006 08:29, Pete wrote: > When I saw him play up here in San Jose I did not see him unplug anything > on his MOTM. I don't think it would be a good idea to mess with the path he > had up there. It looked VERY complicated. I can only imagine what would > happen if you wanted to re patch in the dark. he he... Interesting. So he has a modular patch sitting there that works for different tracks, even from different albums. Like a stack of (weird) little mono synths maybe... - Robert
Re: [motm] Robert Rich Concert Report
2006-04-03 by Paul Schreiber
> Question: Does RR re-patch his big modular between songs? Or is he using one > static patch (cable-wise) and only tweak knobs? It is actually 9 separate patches which he uses for 4 different pieces. He uses a Mac laptop running Cubase to sequence the patches. He his very clever in setting up 1 patch that be tweaked for different sounds. For this tour, he started patching around August and played around until mid-November until he could move from song-to-song, remembering where each knob is set. He then rehearses for about 10 weeks, 8 hrs/day. Quite a work ethic :) I saw him on the last tour in Portland OR. It was quite amazing how he moves from lap steel to flute to mixing with Ableton. This is due to the fact that all the 'moves' are rehearsed and structured. Some may think that this distracts from the 'live' aspect, but I think it's the opposite. It's quite a tour de force. Paul S.
Re: [motm] Robert Rich Concert Report
2006-04-03 by Pete
Check out this picture. It shows the patch he used. Looks crazy to me. No wonder I loved the sounds that came out of it!
Re: [motm] Robert Rich Concert Report
2006-04-03 by Robert van der Kamp
On Monday 03 April 2006 08:42, Paul Schreiber wrote: > > Question: Does RR re-patch his big modular between songs? Or is he using > > one static patch (cable-wise) and only tweak knobs? > > It is actually 9 separate patches which he uses for 4 different pieces. He > uses a Mac laptop running Cubase to sequence the patches. He his very > clever in setting up 1 patch that be tweaked for different sounds. For this > tour, he started patching around August and played around until > mid-November until he could move from song-to-song, remembering where each > knob is set. He then rehearses for about 10 weeks, 8 hrs/day. Quite a work > ethic :) Omg... that is a LOT of work indeed! > > I saw him on the last tour in Portland OR. It was quite amazing how he > moves from lap steel to flute to mixing with Ableton. This is due to the > fact that all the 'moves' are rehearsed and structured. Some may think that > this distracts from the 'live' aspect, but I think it's the opposite. It's > quite a tour de force. I see, so everything you see is part of a big plan. Sounds like a stress job on stage, despite the soothing music. ;) - Robert
Re: [motm] Robert Rich Concert Report
2006-04-03 by Robert van der Kamp
On Monday 03 April 2006 08:47, Pete wrote: > Check out this picture. It shows the patch he used. Looks crazy to me. No > wonder I loved the sounds that came out of it! > > http://www.cubanpetemusic.com/gallery/Robert-Rich/DSCN2744?full=1 Oooookaaaay, if I had seen this picture before, I wouldn't have asked the question about re-patching between songs, since the answer is an obvious NO!! ;) Nice cable density!! How would you document a patch like this? - Robert