Doepfer A-100 Modular Patchbay System Used By Surachai At Ramp Chicago
Surachai and Justin McGrath talk about the Doepfer A-100. The A-100 is a series of sound modules built into a road case. The modules are fully switchable and customizable, and can be made to order in about 100 different variations.
Surachai and Justin mainly use the A-100 as an effects processor for their laptop and other sound sources. In performance, their sequences are mainly played and controlled from Ableton Live. We will be talking to them in our second interview about going live with Ableton Live!
In case you're wondering, the black and white was due to the low lighting at the club. This is not Ingmar Bergman's new "last film I'll ever make".
BILL HOLLAND: Hey everybody. Welcome back to Gearwire.Com. I’m Bill Holland here with Surachai and Justin McGrath. Thanks for coming guys.
SURACHAI: What’s up, man?
BILL HOLLAND: Are you okay over there?
JUSTIN MCGRATH: Yeah.
BILL HOLLAND: All right. We’re talking about the A100 analog modular system by Doepfer.
JUSTIN MCGRATH: Yes.
SURACHAI: Yes.
BILL HOLLAND: And you guys use this both live and in studio production, correct?
SURACHAI: Yeah. Absolutely. We have Doepfer stuff. This is just like the most efficient setup I find for live use, and Justin has a Cwejman S1 modular synthesizer, and that thing is brutal as hell.
Mostly like what I use this thing for is effects processing. I mean obviously there’s a sequencer here, actually a two-part sequencer and like a really bad oscillator. But this is mostly for like effects processing whereas Justin’s S1 is -- it’s hardwired already. What do they call it? Semimodular? And that is like completely musical, so like we kind of complement our styles with whatever.
BILL HOLLAND: Great. So, when you’re performing live I mean what exactly are you doing here pretty much? You’ve got it preset as to how you are patched and you are tweaking knobs through the whole performance?
SURACHAI: Essentially what’s happening is I’ve multitracked all my songs, so like -- All right, basically I’m playing tonight and Justin’s helping me, so what’s happening is I have multitrack, so let’s just say I have like drums, bass, strings, and vocals, right? I have it set up for my 410 so I can just send out a signal to got to Justin so he can process drums using the Sherman, or I can just like process, you know, vocals. So like essentially everything just goes into here and then like whatever. So it’s just like whatever I fee like processing I just, you know, press some buttons on live and it’ll send it to my whatever.
BILL HOLLAND: Cool. Well, thanks for being with us again, and we’re going to join for another segment on actually how you approach Ableton Live in performance. Thanks again.
wow, really enthusiastic
re: wow, really enthusiastic
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