I am surprised you didn't use X-MIX. I can improvise for hours using X-MIX, although it would be harder if the others are leading and you are following. If I am leading, I can do things like, just before I switch into a random bassline, tell the others to lay out for a half bar until they hear the new bassline, analyze the key and then come in. Works pretty well that way. Once the groove is in place, I will randomly move through presets using X-MIX and then bring in a part very quietly (or louder on my headphones but not out front) and listen hard and fast. If it doesn't sound good, or I realize it is in the wrong key, I will just immediately nix it--such doesn't usually take me more than 1/2 a bar so no actual damage is done. I will basically flip the channels fast until something sounds right and then lay it in. Then I can concentrate on either the new line or an older one and start changing the patches or tweaking them a little at a time before moving on to others to tweak. When it all gets stale, then I call a moment to the mates and move for another bassline then repeat . . .
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From: paolovalladolid
To: xl7@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 1:08 AM
Subject: [xl7] Anybody play free-improv on their Command Station?
Today I used my XL7 for the first time with my free-improv
electro-acoustic group (the type of free improv played by Derek
Bailey, Fred Frith, etc.). I mostly used arp presets, hitting the tap
tempo button to match the improvisations of my bandmates, tweaking
knobs, etc. A simple approach, but it seemed to work. I also tried
a bts patch but it didn't allow enough "room" to improvise.
Any thoughts from others doing this kind of activity would be appreciated.
Paolo
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Re: [xl7] Anybody play free-improv on their Command Station?
2004-08-16 by Ravi Ivan Sharma