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braj · Post by **braj** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 11:44 am

Haha, did you ever see the Grateful Dead? Now THAT was a dance band!

mellotronaut · Post by **mellotronaut** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 11:52 am

early 60's here. so i had a chance to see Can (and also GuruGuru and some others, when they were half fresh).
back to RG: i use it a lot with AD's Replicant, Automaton and Discord and also with Camel Space, Uhbik G and Runciter. i also record some audio from and stretch or pitch it in Ableton Live. i never use it as a guitar substitute and never intended to do so.

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mellotronaut · Post by **mellotronaut** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 11:56 am

saw them in 1981 in Munich ... they played more than 4 hours: wonderful!

braj · Post by **braj** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 11:57 am

YEah I just want it for some funk, and sort of as a scratchpad for working out grooves since it has a decent interface for that IMO. I can later write them out in Strum Electric and they can all compliment eachother. I want to do some crazy space rock stuff with it, I like the built in synth from what I remember from the demo, and again, the limitation seems to be the chord options, so I'm hoping to buy it cheap, like it, and hope at some point it gets a release with regular chord voicing. But I won't hold my breath for that and so I don't want to pay full price. It's worth $70 to me but not more at this point.

braj · Post by **braj** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 11:57 am

You gotta love 'Disco Dead'

braj · Post by **braj** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 12:00 pm

I only saw the Dead about 75 times (that I can remember)

I was at a lot more shows I didn't get in. I was just telling my wife last night about Dead Tour, oh those were the days. I can't really dance anymore because of disability, so I really relish that I let it all fly back then.

mellotronaut · Post by **mellotronaut** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 12:08 pm

75 times

i envy you

my fav is 'Dark Star' unbelieveable journey

have you tried Sugar Bytes' Guitar? also very interesting, but not cheap unfortunately.

braj · Post by **braj** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 12:12 pm

mellotronaut wrote:75 times i envy you

my fav is 'Dark Star' unbelieveable journey

have you tried Sugar Bytes' Guitar? also very interesting, but not cheap unfortunately.

Yeah I owned it and actually Sugar Bytes let me trade it in for Consequence. I loved aspects about it but really wanted something that let me play chords manually, it is a pattern sequencer really and everything has to be planned out, not really a jamming, improvisational instrument which is much more my way of doing things, play a lot, find something interesting to arrange from improvisations.

Here's a Dark Star for you, also one of my very favorite tunes, I basically got back into DAWs and plugins so I could jam along with a Dark Star track with my guitar

braj · Post by **braj** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 12:13 pm

And here is a Dark Star from me, you can definitely tell who is Jerry and who is not

I need to redo this, it is really raw and I was just starting to play again, but anyhow here it is:

http://soundcloud.com/brajeshwara-das/dark-star-take-2

mellotronaut · Post by **mellotronaut** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 12:33 pm

braj wrote:And here is a Dark Star from me, you can definitely tell who is Jerry and who is not

I need to redo this, it is really raw and I was just starting to play again, but anyhow here it is:

http://soundcloud.com/brajeshwara-das/dark-star-take-2

yeah, i like it (except the drums could be more varied). there is a serenity in it ... very special ... vocals are great, though in the end you fall asleep as if you take the last puff and mumble: "... to be continued folks, but now i have to enjoy cloud nine, o.k.?"

braj · Post by **braj** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 12:38 pm

mellotronaut wrote:
braj wrote:And here is a Dark Star from me, you can definitely tell who is Jerry and who is not

I need to redo this, it is really raw and I was just starting to play again, but anyhow here it is:

http://soundcloud.com/brajeshwara-das/dark-star-take-2
yeah, i like it (except the drums could be more varied). there is a serenity in it ... very special ... vocals are great, though in the end you fall asleep as if you take the last puff and mumble: "... to be continued folks, but now i have to enjoy cloud nine, o.k.?"

It all could be more varied

but since then I got Trilian so the bass will be more inspiring to work on, and better drums with Studio Drummer, and I have Studio One now, you know they say it just SOUNDS better

Anyhow that was a scratch recording, one take and I didn't bother to do two tried at the guitar or anything, plus I didn't practice much either. I was just getting used to Reaper and was just excited to play again

I want to redo it, I'm working on Iko Iko/Women are Smarter jam right now and after I finish that I'll try Dark Star again, hopefully a little better and more interesting. With Melodyne I'll be able to play bass with my guitar, convert to midi and voice with Trilian and get much more 'realistic' and jamming bass, that really is a big part of the Dead's sound, Phil Lesh and Jerry would compliment each other so well.

mellotronaut · Post by **mellotronaut** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 12:48 pm

Trilian is on my wishlist, but there is no money now for it. i've also just begun to use Studio One, because i love the Melodyne integration. i don't use it for pitch correction, but for sound mangling and in Studio One i can extract midi files so easily and double audio stuff: very nice!

braj · Post by **braj** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 12:50 pm

mellotronaut wrote:Trilian is on my wishlist, but there is no money now for it. i've also just begun to use Studio One, because i love the Melodyne integration. i don't use it for pitch correction, but for sound mangling and in Studio One i can extract midi files so easily and double audio stuff: very nice!

Definitely! I love being able to take a guitar melody line and have an organ mirror it, it is so cool, I wanted to make a midi guitar work for me for so many years but never could 'get it right' until Melodyne came into me life, it really fills that for me, I don't need to play live midi with guitar but to compose on guitar where for many things I'm just more comfortable is a huge boon.

braj · Post by **braj** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 10:30 pm

So does anyone else have music made with RG to share, or maybe a license to sell?

saintjohnbaxter · Post by **saintjohnbaxter** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 11:47 pm

braj wrote:So does anyone else have music made with RG to share, or maybe a license to sell?

I searched through a few half/nearly finished tracks last night and found one instance of it in a bridge. Just a barely noticeable echoey strum holding up a pad. And that's it

You could have mine but it's NFR, sorry

Music made with Rob Papen's RG?