Part 3 of our chat with Alessandro Cortini (Nine Inch Nails live band) about his wonderful collection of instruments, and the way he works, He shows us how he uses the 200 sequencer to build a beat.
sunil solanki Yes, that would be fantastic if you could have him on the show semi-regularly. I know he's very busy but I never fail to learn every time I see him.
Awesome. One of the best gear tours I've seen online. Actually one of the best RU-vid vids I've seen. So genuine. Good job Nick and thank you Cortini! !
This is great! I love the filtering stuff with the hi-hat pattern. Such an interesting way of going about sequencing drums too! Alessandro seems like a super cool guy too. Man I gotta fire up my modular now, this was inspiring!
Amazing video series! Alessandro has such a passion for synthesizers! Really interesting to see him him messing around like this. And he's such a cool easy going guy to top it off!
Everything in this is amazing, watched all vids, espesh seeing how he made the kicks and snares and hats, , I love Alexandros compositions, and sonio!! I could watch these vids indefinitely!!!!!
Thanks for doing this cool interview... it's always a pleasure to see the interviewer knows what he's talking about. Great work ! Thanks for that !!! Amazing Studio... And Alessandro is a great inspiration.
Top bloke, top gear. He's one of the few people who really made me want a Buchla modular, even though I know that I'll never be able to afford one. Still saving up for an Easel, maybe I'll make it one day. Damn you, gear acquisition syndrome!!
Richard Michael well, I'd have to say listening to Trent Reznor gives (me) the same impression. The guy is incredibly knowledgeable, seems very approachable (at least now, not sure about a decade or so ago) and I could listen to him talk for hours, and hours, and more hours. However, I agree about Alessandro as well. Everything I said for Trent applies to Alessandro aside from him not being approachable; I get the feeling he's ALWAYS happy to talk about anything synth related to anyone at any time. The last thing I'll say is, I think it's no amazing coincidence that Trent & Alessandro ended up working together. With the genius of them both, I genuinely think it was only a matter of time, for sure. 😁 If you haven't, check out the I Dream of Wires hardcore edition, and then for sure the extended IDOW interviews on RU-vid. Trent & Alessandro have a longer interview together. Cheers
This guy makes synths look cooler than cool! All this envy rises up in me, like when I was a teenager, "man i want to be that guy" haha! His live rig vid was even better. Props to this guy, what a legend! And thanks Nick for te vids!
Love this! What a dream million dollar studio setup. Fun insight into the brilliant mind of Cortini and his approach to music synthesis and production. Need to look into the Decapitator plugin, never heard of that. Buchla too rich for my blood. He must have 200k in just that.
sonicstate i didnt even know there was a part 3! my day is already made! this man and his passion of modulars and chaotic machines motivated me to take the step and start my own modular designs and building them! for now it's not going to be very modular more like noise boxes but i'll get there!
fayekhelmi FYI, any pedal that has an input for "expression pedal" (like Boss delays and pitch shifters), once you get something modular like a Microbrute, or LFO module, you can have them interact with and modulate your pedal setup.. Also, buying cheap used mixers, and creating 'mixer feedback' with all of their inputs and outputs is a super fun and cheap way to get crazy modular, analog sounds... a bit chaotic, but they can sound great!
why he didn't use OR for combining gate outputs from the sequencer? he just makes a bridge, but the voltage from the individual gate outputs via this bridge comes into another gate outputs - is this normal for buchla?
Man everbody is using Live these days, I have it, but I must be an idot as I just can't wrap my head around it. Its the only sequencer I've ever had going all the way back to my SE30 and Opcode Vision where I wasn't able to figure it out on my own. Anyway cool video and quite a setup he's got there, however I had to turn the volume down when he started that 1st sequence as it was like running fingernails down a chalk board to my ears ( The rythmic sequence was much more tolerable and cool :)
Same kind of thing happened with me and Live. It took me a good while before it clicked with me. I kept going back to it and learning a little more each time then putting it down for a while.
Super random, but I just love how he actually calls Ableton Live "Live" and not "Ableton," lol.. People always call the DAW by the company name and it annoys me. No-one probably cares except me though, lol.
