I'm going to give playing a set on the Tempest live this weekend, accompanied by a friend / drummer who is going to play a Korg Wavedrum. Here's how I plan to go about it:
- 1 Project of 16 beats. It should be easily enough for an hour.
- Each beat uses the left 8 pads for drum sounds, the right 8 pads are synth leads, bases, noises, etc.
- I typically use 6 or so drum sounds and ~4 synth/noise sounds per beat.
- The project is saved with most sounds muted, so a beat comes in relatively simply upon beat change.
- We'll build up the beat, with my hand-drummer partner playing most of the percussion on top of my kicks, claps etc.
- One beat covers a few melodic ideas through different parts on sounds. I jam using mute/unmutes, slider effects, and knob control of attack, dist, comp, roll, reverse etc. It's techno.. its better if you keep it changing in simple ways but let it ride quite a bit.
- We'll tear it back down to something simple to switch to the next beat.
- Rinse and repeat until we've played with all 16 beats.
I have all of the sounds labeled well and I'm pretty ready. Wish us luck!