Cybercaster

Welease

http://www.lighterthiefmusic.com/Cybercaster.html

Interesting idea.. similar idea to whatshisname (Bellamy?) from Muse..

Dord

Welease wrote: »

http://www.lighterthiefmusic.com/Cybercaster.html

Interesting idea.. similar idea to whatshisname (Bellamy?) from Muse..

Haha nice, I love how he used a Television sample. :cool:

rcaz

Pretty cool, but I reckon this has a lot more potential than Matt Bellamy. Bellamy doesn't use MIDI with his guitar, does he?

I'm massively interested in using guitars together with computers - it's so damn expensive, I don't have any of the required gear (yet), but a laptop, interface, Ableton Live, and a MIDI pickup (like the Roland Guitar Synthesiser) can provide incredible posibilties. And there's always Max/MSP... :pac::pac::pac:

Christopher Willits seems to know what he's doing;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK2dCNacvNU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM9HRpJSIhc

You can hear him explaining it here in the What You Talkin' 'Bout Willits? videos;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUwOIniJxaA

Is there anyone pushing the guitar this much??

Welease

Bellamy has a Kaoss pad built into one of his guitars, but not sure if he uses the midi side of it.. (edit - I should say.. I think I saw one on a video once)

I am really interested in the midi parasite Rowe is using the in Cybercaster, not many details around though.. It's a pity because i spent the last 20 years in Swindon where he lives, and I actually could have tried to see it in person had I known.

It has 256 midi control options on it and he used it through guitar rig and Abelton, so a somewhat similar setup to the video's you posted..

Welease

Also meant to comment on Willits equipment.. should be a real eye opener for some of the gear snobs around..behringer, boss distortion, pocket pods etc.... I guess you need a lot less of the high end boutique stuff if you have real talent and imagination

(that should get a few responses )

ball ox

It's a midi controller glued to a guitar......

Welease

ball ox wrote: »

It's a midi controller glued to a guitar......

and a guitar is just metal strings fixed to a wooden plank

Yes it is just a midi controller, but with the extra kit (midi pickups) they had,a bit of imagination and the right software the possibilites are endless.

Start songs playing rhythm, recording the notes live, use the controller to continue playing those chords, but kick off other vsi's to play the part using orchestral instruments, flick a switch and you are playing a violin sample as the solo while switching on and off other samples and tweaking beats etc, continue to add instruments as your progress etc. and switching on and off as required.

Yes it's all currently possible today with standard equipment, but very few people gone to the trouble of building it into the instrument so it can be controlled with much more ease, and very few to have really tried to push the technology.

And personally I would love to play with such a setup

rcaz

Welease, you're bang on. Cheap gear and a brain is a lot better than expensive gear and a wanting to be like someone else.

The thing that I like most is what I think is called 'folding'. Willits will play a guitar part with his normal pickups and loop it in Ableton, and then go to the MIDI pickup. He has a program written to cut up the guitar samples according to what MIDI data comes from his guitar synth, so when he starts playing with the MIDI pickup, he's not playing the guitar, he's using the guitar to play the other guitar part he already recorded.

And you could do this with ANYTHING!! Stick a mic over your drummers kit and start sampling his drums and playing drum parts with your guitar, control your singer's voice with your guitar, and even just use your guitar as a synth controller.

I wonder why there aren't more people out there like this, making interesting music with guitars.

Dord

El Pr0n wrote: »

Welease, you're bang on. Cheap gear and a brain is a lot better than expensive gear and a wanting to be like someone else.

The thing that I like most is what I think is called 'folding'. Willits will play a guitar part with his normal pickups and loop it in Ableton, and then go to the MIDI pickup. He has a program written to cut up the guitar samples according to what MIDI data comes from his guitar synth, so when he starts playing with the MIDI pickup, he's not playing the guitar, he's using the guitar to play the other guitar part he already recorded.

And you could do this with ANYTHING!! Stick a mic over your drummers kit and start sampling his drums and playing drum parts with your guitar, control your singer's voice with your guitar, and even just use your guitar as a synth controller.

I wonder why there aren't more people out there like this, making interesting music with guitars.

Actually that other guitar part that he's sampling is just a piece of an already recorded song. It's "Friction" by the band Television. He's also got another drum beat that he's mixing in there.

rcaz

Dord wrote: »

Actually that other guitar part that he's sampling is just a piece of an already recorded song. It's "Friction" by the band Television. He's also got another drum beat that he's mixing in there.

Hehehe... Trust me, Dord, I have a very well-worn copy of Marquee Moon

The post you quoted from me was more about the guy in the other videos, Christopher Willits, and his techniques. I think there's a lot more to the guitar/computer setup than the Cybercaster is showing right now.

Dord

El Pr0n wrote: »

Hehehe... Trust me, Dord, I have a very well-worn copy of Marquee Moon

The post you quoted from me was more about the guy in the other videos, Christopher Willits, and his techniques. I think there's a lot more to the guitar/computer setup than the Cybercaster is showing right now.

It's an awesome album! :cool:

Sorry got confused with who you were talking about.

rcaz

Dord wrote: »

It's an awesome album! :cool:

Sorry got confused with who you were talking about.

It's cool. And yes, it would be my number one 'guitar album'. And I feel a certain affinity for Tom Verlaine due his pioneering of the Jazzmaster in scene/genre/whatever where JMs were not seen The guy helped build the ****ing stage in CBGB!! :cool: