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timothyallan wrote:What I noticed is in general over this timeframe is that nobody gives a shit how live you are except for the chinstrokers. As long as you sound good and know how to rock it and apply a little variation to match the crowd, you're good to go.

bingo, that does not mean that i think people who play should not totally care or do as much really live as possible... but the majority of the crowd gives a total shit as long as it is not some intellectual rubbish and it simply rocks the socks off.

8O wrote:Cool - thanks a lot for voting! A way higher proportion of live and to-be live players than I expected; I thought it would be more 50/50.

Keep the votes coming in...!

come on really? you thought it's 50/50... i mean i know that this vote here is not giving us a real picture (only a tiniest fraction of users are on this forum) but that is why it is so shocking that Live seems to move more towards DAW then staying a Live application. i don't believe that the majority of pure studio wizards out there use live, why should they?

Not now. Maybe in the future.

SubFunk wrote:

8O wrote:Cool - thanks a lot for voting! A way higher proportion of live and to-be live players than I expected; I thought it would be more 50/50.

Keep the votes coming in...!

come on really? you thought it's 50/50... i mean i know that this vote here is not giving us a real picture (only a tiniest fraction of users are on this forum) but that is why it is so shocking that Live seems to move more towards DAW then staying a Live application. i don't believe that the majority of pure studio wizards out there use live, why should they?

It was more of a cultural thing - it's dead easy to get to play live in Berlin, we're really spoilt here. But I thought there'd be more users in towns & villages across the world where there's just no opportunity/no scene.

^^^ ahh, point.

SubFunk wrote:

timothyallan wrote:What I noticed is in general over this timeframe is that nobody gives a shit how live you are except for the chinstrokers. As long as you sound good and know how to rock it and apply a little variation to match the crowd, you're good to go.

bingo, that does not mean that i think people who play should not totally care or do as much really live as possible... but the majority of the crowd gives a total shit as long as it is not some intellectual rubbish and it simply rocks the socks off.

people want to get entertained. So noone really cares if your knobs are assigned to the filtercutoff, to cue-next-song or to some stochastic-drum-algorithm. You can entertain people by rocking-out (looking good or ridiculous, doesn't matter so much) or by really good music. Second option is way harder. I would love to entertain people with my music, but mostly they get entertained by the funny hats we wear, the silly joke we make and the hilarious mistakes and errors we commit on stage. but as everyone has fun, I don't complain too much.

You crazy hat wearing muthas!

Bump... any more votes...?

Wonder if the thread title is more likely to get live performers and thus skew the results a bit...

probably ^^^^^
i only clicked coz i play live

playing live with ableton since i've owned a laptop...

MPC styles before i had a laptop

Right... game changer... will change the thread title, see if that makes any difference... cheers...

I did't vote because I only occaisionally play live. Does twice in a year really count as playing live. How about those parties I DJed at even though I'm not a DJ and the music was part mine and parts of other peoples, so I don't consider that any kind of playing live, just pissing about

so, not enough option for me to choose

"occaisionally"

Cheers Angstrom.

I'd consider "occasionally" = "yes"...

*** bump ***

Cheers!

pepezabala wrote:

SubFunk wrote:

timothyallan wrote:What I noticed is in general over this timeframe is that nobody gives a shit how live you are except for the chinstrokers. As long as you sound good and know how to rock it and apply a little variation to match the crowd, you're good to go.

bingo, that does not mean that i think people who play should not totally care or do as much really live as possible... but the majority of the crowd gives a total shit as long as it is not some intellectual rubbish and it simply rocks the socks off.

people want to get entertained. So noone really cares if your knobs are assigned to the filtercutoff, to cue-next-song or to some stochastic-drum-algorithm. You can entertain people by rocking-out (looking good or ridiculous, doesn't matter so much) or by really good music. Second option is way harder. I would love to entertain people with my music, but mostly they get entertained by the funny hats we wear, the silly joke we make and the hilarious mistakes and errors we commit on stage. but as everyone has fun, I don't complain too much.

It depends really, some people buy into the ethos of it being completely live or analogue or whatever.

i don't understand this sentence

It depends really, some people buy into the ethos of it being completely live or analogue or whatever.

care to elaborate?