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Dragonflies:



Track recorded on realtime live performance.

no studio, no DAW, no mixers, no PCs....

Performed with a waldorf Q, Roland V Synth, Yamah EX5, EMU XL7 and both Korg Electribes ESX - EMX
and...two Roland SP808ex

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YOUR COMMENTS ARE HIGHLY APPRECIATED thanks for listening

Mauricio Balma

no mixer eh? you have a massive input interface or recorder then

this is nice and cozy, laidback and housey is there a master filter used to filter everything out when the light chord comes in around 2:10 or so? would love to go to your live shows, too bad you're on the wrong side of the planet :p

TrondC wrote:no mixer eh? you have a massive input interface or recorder then

:p

I fully use the line in on my synths, is a feature that is a must to me, in order to avoid mixers. Don't have enough hands for them. Filtered cuts were made tweaking the high and mid gain of a line in

This song was recorded during a live act. A mandatory gear: two Roland SP808ex samplers. They can receive and mix in certaing way, two line ins at the same time, each one of them. They have a isolator trigger, so I can suddenly cut or manipulate LO, MID and Hi gain during the live act, or muting, or activate samples, or monitor a single line in with headphones while the other keeps playing. That's the equalizated bridge that you heard.

From 1:23 to 1:45 I tweak a lot the line ins of all the machines, filtering in and out. Also you can see it at 4:32:



In this way, I can send to speakers four synths + the two SP808 fulled with samples.
I also use a LOT the LINE IN of each one of my synths. If you see my gear, almost all of them have Line in, that's a must for me. I use the line of the two Electribes ESX, the V Synth and Waldorf MicroQ. I specially love LINE INS to modulate and control SUBS outputs of the other synths.

For example, the Command station has one main output and two stereo subs. I send the EMU's sub 1 and sub 2 to Electribe's LINE IN, ESX1 and EMX1.

I also send the sub of the V synth, to the line in of the MICRO Q.

Oh man, interconecting that jungle of 1/4 and RCA cablers on a live act, with already 6 beers and a couple of joints on my head, and people dancing drunk everywhere, je je, is a s**t, but still a lot of fun....

Thanks for listening.

BTW a lot of people asking me when I'm gonna give a show on USA. Oh man, traveling and playing is my gold dream. Hope to reach it in a short term.

Wow I just won a little bit of money with this track

This just came in the moment I need it the most.

And now the track is participating on the Microfusa annual contest with good possibilities (I'm semifinalist)

Prizes:
$2000 on equipment
1000 cds recorded on studio
Presentation at the RAZZMATAZZ, one of the biggest discos on Spain, and the biggest of Barcelona.

There was a transmision on a Barcelona (Spain) FM radio this week with the Dragonflies track:


http://www.scannerfm.com/actualidad/la- ... en-reload/ The second song...

this is the download of the radio program
http://contenido.scannerfm.com/programa ... load14.mp3


I always wanted to visit Spain. Now I'm closer than ever