Ulrich - your music is transcendent, transporting - it can really take me to another dimension! It's genius, so I was encouraged to see that you're also a very humble man despite your exceptional talent. I would love to record something with you one day (but it might have to be in that other dimension!)
Thanks for posting this Ross! I have contacted Nat to make sure it is her. On the day we filmed, everything was so busy we did not even get a chance to speak to Ulrich, at least we were able to document this performance for all of you to enjoy.
I spotted at 12:13 the Ensoniq DP4 effects unit, a great one, placed under the mixer. I was really wondering if any external hardware is used, besides the Ableton Live. Great mix, full of "suspanse"!
no other gear was used. Later as Ulrich did more improvised concert openers he used: Roland JP-XA synthesiser (hybrid digital/analog) - digital sounds only Yamaha Reface CP polyphonic electric piano keyboard with mini-keys & built-in effects Akai APC40 Ableton Live controller Sonic Core Scope Xite-1 rack with Scope Application software plus Synth Legends Bundle, Classic Mix'n'Master Bundle, Classic Synth'n'Sampler Bundle & Modular III - all parameters accessible via a laptop Apple Laptop - unknown model Mixer - sometimes a Mackie Esoniq DP/4 parallel effects processor module (rack-mounted) Polyend SEQ eight-track hardware step sequencer Modal Electronics Skulpt four-voice virtual analog desktop synthesiser Roland Boutique JP-08 polyphonic synthesiser module
Check out No Further Ahead Than Today, which is Goodbye quality IMHO (especially New Day Starts at Dawn). That and Passage, with Jonas Munk, which is addictive.
Man, there are knob twiddlers and there are KNOB twiddlers... and OMG can this guy twiddle knobs... A modern day Mozart of knob twiddling! (whosaidsarcasmthehighestformofwitwasdead?)
Really great music, certainly took hundreds of hours to produce using tons of equipment. But in this video he's doing nothing, all playback, he just turns knobs on an analog mixing console and nothing changes as he turns them. Nice show and video, but music so complex has to be pre-produced completely, and there simply isn't much to do on stage.
Great Music. It's a shame it's in mono and distorted as hell, pushed through some over compressed limiter.. for all the dynamics the video is trying to portray ! Great ideas but rubbish sound, C'mon..
im not normally one to comment, but good sir if this isnt for you why let the net know...id think something like that is a personel preference. Please understand tones and digital noise..a compressed limiter if he even is using one is one of many layered sections which hit anyone hard about 7 min in is pure love
It's always been a part of his mixing style, heavy effects, compression, distortion, to add grittiness as mentioned below. Of course being a live session will have added to that even more. His early work was very clean in comparison!
