#180 - 8th October 2024 - More is still more

To manage innovation, there is this concept of the Double Diamond. Essentially, it describes how ideation is a process of expansion/divergent thinking that must be followed by converging and consolidating based on findings, feedback and such.

I’m in the expansive phase.

In a duo, which instruments would I play to keep sounds options vast, to keep me interested and to have something for the audience to enjoy performance wise?

1) The Prophet that could be fired up by Midi from a Mac that runs playback. Mainly to be used for pads, pluck sounds and brass stabs.

2) The Nord Drum synth that could contribute with immense sounding industrial drum sounds, played live with a stick and…

3) …is run through the Digitakt to sample it and use Digitakt‘s FX. Digitakt itself could be used to run and perform samples that would be too stiff in Ableton as backing track.

4) A drone synth in euro rack, fired up by Oxi One, a Keystep or even the Prophet to produce…drones!

5) All of the above run through a performance mixer and eventually…

6) … into the Analog Heat + FX for polishing, insanity, lo-fi‘ness or more basic FX and filtering.

Yes. Expensive expansion. Good thing. Apart from the mixer, I already have all this stuff lying around. That‘s the benefit of doing this for a while.

So what‘s it gonna be? Every element comes with a good argument for having it in the setup.

As always, trial and error must filter the truth.