Just wondering what the most effective/subtle way is to change from track to track when playing your own songs live using different patterns from tow or more different elektron machines? It seems a bit brutal to to just suddenly trigger a crude new drum pattern and play it over the synth melody for the last track as you;'re moving from one song to the next.
At some stage I want to add an MNM to this setup, but before then I want to nail this down.
I’m sure there are many ways that people work when playing live so I’m eager to hear some ideas?
Would using a dj mixer (I have a djm600 lying idle) help out here?
Maybe some people mostly use just one machine to control all patterns on others, but I guess that’s more for recording a song and not much fun in a live situation?
With the same setup (MD, OT & MM) I have worked out a flexible way that suits me for both subtle & blunt transitions
Use an OT midi channel to send note pattern change to MD (see MD MAP EDITOR & assign notes to your patterns). This way when you change part/pattern on the OT, you can choose to also change the MD pattern at same time or not depending on whether your OT midi channel is muted.
as well as running MD audio into the OT, I also run the OT cue outs back into the MD. All my MD patterns have ch 15/16 as an OT resampler setup, so I can directly resample specific OT tracks into the MD & have them continue after changing patterns/parts. Fade out over time or morph into something else via MD trigs/retrigger/filter/rev/del/bitcrushing/lfos etc.
Also use MD ch 13/14 as resampler for the MD itself to soften the “brutality” of crude new drum patterns, then use trigs/retrigger/filter/rev/del/bitcrushing/lfos morphs to fade as per (2)
Instead of (2) you could have an OT master channel setup that can sample itself &/or the MD which will carry over to next pattern also. I prefer to use all 8 OT channels for audio/neighbor & use external post processing so (2) works for my needs.
Sure some kind of mixer with send/return to a resampler like a KP3 etc would be fun also, depends what your motivations for lugging extra gear are like.
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With the same setup (MD, OT & MM) I have worked out a flexible way that suits me for both subtle & blunt transitions
Use an OT midi channel to send note pattern change to MD (see MD MAP EDITOR & assign notes to your patterns). This way when you change part/pattern on the OT, you can choose to also change the MD pattern at same time or not depending on whether your OT midi channel is muted.
as well as running MD audio into the OT, I also run the OT cue outs back into the MD. All my MD patterns have ch 15/16 as an OT resampler setup, so I can directly resample specific OT tracks into the MD & have them continue after changing patterns/parts. Fade out over time or morph into something else via MD trigs/retrigger/filter/rev/del/bitcrushing/lfos etc.
Also use MD ch 13/14 as resampler for the MD itself to soften the “brutality” of crude new drum patterns, then use trigs/retrigger/filter/rev/del/bitcrushing/lfos morphs to fade as per (2)
Instead of (2) you could have an OT master channel setup that can sample itself &/or the MD which will carry over to next pattern also. I prefer to use all 8 OT channels for audio/neighbor & use external post processing so (2) works for my needs.
Sure some kind of mixer with send/return to a resampler like a KP3 etc would be fun also, depends what your motivations for lugging extra gear are like.
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+1. this is a flexible method that requires no additional gear and works a treat. try searching for “crossfader transition trick” either here or on the old forum, iirc there are good video demos of it somewhere.
Brilliant, I’m sure I can follow the help from the guys above when I’m fiddling shortly. But if you come across those video I’d appreciate you sending me the link?
I just leave the kick on and switch patterns. Been doing this for long and no one in the dancefloor ever notices it. Transitions are overrated. If you dont like this way, you can always have more than one machine and switch patterns first on one and then on the other. No program change. Manually.