Hello Patron friends!

Thank you all newcomers for joining in the last couple of weeks! Deeply thankful! All the small donations add up, you know! It's really helpful. So thank you!

Here's a little jam using the Analog Keys and the Analog Rytm to jam out a tune, and make a live performance. I'm gonna play on a sort of conference tomorrow. I'm afraid it's not gonna be covered by any media, so I thought I'd share some of my preparations, at least :)

My thought with live improvs is to prepare a few great kits in advance. Kits that I know really well. Full of Performance Mode changes and Joystick action. Since I'm very much a melody guy, I need to focus a lot on the keyboard, not making full potential of the Rytm. But just muting and unmuting the Rytm tracks is very helpful in making things move a bit :)

If there are any questions about how i set this up, or anything, don't hesitate to ask right here, ok.

Cheers for now.

CUCKOO

The Analog Keys' keyboard can be split up into zones where you can play different sounds in each zones. One zone can be used for an internal sound, another zone could be playing an external synth, and a third zone could be playing an internal drum kit etc. A lot of people have asked how to set this up, so here, finally, I'm trying to break it down into (hopefully) easy to grasp steps.

I'm sure you can use it more creatively than what I'm doing here. But these are the basics. I hope you'll make use of it, if you've got an Analog Keys, or an Analog Four. It is possible on the Analog Four as well. You just have to find the menu in there first ;-)

OK, cheers for now!

CUCKOO

This weekend I booked a day in Propeller Music Division here in Oslo, together with incredible drummer Hans Hulbækmo. I've always had this feeling that there's some interesting ground in synthesizers and acoustic drums yet to explore.

I was playing on the Analog Keys as a master, and I set up an Analog Rytm to act as an always in sync click track, and then the Continuum Fingerboard, with its unusually rich sound palette.

Mostly I set the tone first with a sound, perhaps a bass. Sometimes Hulbækmo started grooving before me, and then it was easy to tap sync the Analog Keys and jump right in. It was a truly interesting, and less chaotic than expected, experience. Definitely something I want to explore further.

I just recorded this one little peace on video. I think it's a nice example of what we were doing. For the next time though I think I'll try to prepare a little more, and perhaps rehearse a few times, and explore dynamics a little more. It's easy to end up in high energy land when jamming, but sometimes keeping it sparse and quiet can be really powerful.

I hope this can serve as inspiration for some of you. It was a really kick ass experience for me!

cheers

CUCKOO

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PS. I have absolutely no experience in mixing drums, so this is more or less the levels straight from the raw recordings, with some minor adjustments. Mixing multi track recorded drums I think I have to give to a professional mixing engineer for now :)