A few years ago, the Passion Subway Series had it's Long Island stop at our church. We got to know the guys in Charlie Hall Band and really enjoyed hangin' out with them. I've kept in touch online with Brian (keyboards) and Dustin (drums) and they've helped me get started with Ableton, Absynth and using a laptop for playing out.
Here is some collective wisdom from them...
Brian wrote:
Most of the sounds that I use are from Absynth (I recently upgraded to 4.0 also). I also sample a lot of sounds into Ableton's Simpler plug in. Think of it as a digital sampler where you can store sounds from gear that you could never possibly take on the road. I really love it.
This sparked my interest - he had already recommended Absynth, which I was using stand-alone. Perhaps I need to also think of it as a sound-design tool rather than just a great sounding synth. Create some textures, render it, then load it up back into Live and then chop it up and process is more in Live.
He also runs Absynth and Ableton separately, rather than Absynth hosted as a VST plugin inside of live. This brought up an interesting question with an even more profound response:
Q: how do you get your rhythmic stuff in absynth to sync with everything else that is going on?
A: I sync it via BPM rather than locking it to timecode. Absynth doesn't really sync to code and for the kinds of sounds I'm using it works just as well to sync to BPM. I tend to not use arpeggiated sounds at all in a live setting because it tends to just make the mix muddy.
This is just what I have been finding out too. I try to get these great time-synced things worked out which sound great at home, but they just don't sit will with the whole band playing. Back to the drawing board!
I appreciate them taking the time to help us out.
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