Hi folks.
I’m eager to hear how people organize their banks/patterns when playing live on the Elektron Trinity?
I recently got some excellent advice which is to treat each bank of the OT like a song in your set (ie. buttons 1-16 play different variations/loops within that song).
This has been working brilliantly for me. However, my way of working is to use the OT as the master pattern/bank selector of the MD and MM. The MD and MM only have 8 banks (as opposed to the OT’s 16 per project) so it seems to me that I am limited to 8 songs per set.
I am wondering how Trinity users work within the limitations of the banks/patterns of all the 3 machines to maximize the number of songs they can play live?
Thanks for reading and thanks in advance for offering your opinions:)
Seems the OT is the only elektron box that goes beyond 8 banks.
I’ve been thinking about using a bank per song, however this seems like overkill for how I work.
I’ve been using 4 patterns per song, and assigning a part for every 4 patterns.
With a lot of muting and transforming then reloading patterns this seems to work pretty well.
Nevertheless this is difficult to re organize if needed.
8 songs per project seems fairly lengthy to me though.
Even if songs are only 4 mins long, that’s 32 mins of constant music.
Running some kind of background drone and switching projects seems perfectly acceptable to me.
Appreciate your input here JuanSOLO.
But wouldn’t most people be playing live (as in; to a crowd, in a club setting) for an hour or more?
I guess in that situation your way of using one part for each liveset song (4 songs per track on OT) is the only solution?
@OP - This is basically my approach. I have a few compositions that require two parts, but most of them I limit to one, and use only a few patterns apiece.
I also depend heavily on scenes. I think of a them as a variation on a pattern and use them for buildups and breakdowns. Together with the aforementioned muting and transforming, they reduce my need to depend on new parts or patterns.
Other things that help me that you might find useful:
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[li]Create some of your compositions using just MD and/or MnM. Giving the OT a break can add tonal variation to your set.[/li]
[li]Have a few heavily MD/MnM compositions that use only one or two OT tracks as accompaniment. That way you can fill a single OT pattern with several loops and use the same OT pattern as part of several compositions, unmuting only the tracks you need.[/li]
[li]Create your variations using MD and MnM. Jamming with your other Elektrons can keep things moving while having only a few things changing on the OT. [/li]
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Hope this helps!
Great tips the dubathonic! Many thanks.