Re: [LAU] controllerism on linux

Renato wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 21:34:01 +0300
> Louigi Verona <louigi.verona@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>
>> Hey!
>>
>> I did actually do quite some controllerism, not with Live but with Dj
>> Traktor Studio. All my experiments on Linux showed that there is no
>> reliable way to get close to Moldover's level without using a
>> proprietary app, designed especially for that. If you use something
>> that was not, you will end up having trouble doing some basic
>> operations. In fact, I had to spend quite a lot of time with Traktor,
>> to figure out the best mapping for Traktor to suit my needs, just
>> like Moldover had to work a lot at his method until he came up with
>> what he did.
>>
>> Sooperlooper seems like the most elaborate tool on Linux in terms of
>> being midified, however a simple fact that it does not display the
>> name of the file you load makes it almost impossible to use in a
>> controllerism performance. Cyclone looks more promising
>> (http://toxic.cubicarea.it/cyclone) but I haven't tried it.
>>
>> Freewheeling I also did not try - I mean, I did a long time ago and it
>> didn't cut it, but I do not remember the reason.
>
> I started looping things with it time ago, and then left it for
> sooperlooper. As allready said, I preferred Freewheeling's approach,
> but it was not maintained and I remember I missed some features
>
>> Anyway, do you have any controllerism experience?
>>
>
> well, not yet, but I'm quite inspired by what people like Moldover, Tim
> Exile and DubFX are doing... I don't have any "real" midi controller
> but I'm comfortable with getting midi out of arduinos, gamepads and
> guitar (with rakarrack midi converter)
>
> One thing that kind of blocks me is that musically I'm not very
> accostumed to electronic music, which seems better suited for this kind
> of thing (It's hard to immagine doing "controllerism" on a tabla sitar
> and guitar piece from Shakti (what I'm listening to now))

Look for Theresa Anderson on YouTube. Definitely not electronic music.
She seems to do it using a hug collection of pedals.

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