Hi, my name is Brian Mauleon,
I'm a singer/songwriter and I also make beats as BMaul
and I'm here to walk you through my Push performance.
In the beginning of the beat I'm using a sample and am currently in Simpler in 'one-shot' mode.
With this mode I have 2 options: Trigger and Gate.
With 'trigger', when I press the drum pad to play the sample,
it plays the sample all the way through.
And every time, it starts on the 1.
This is really useful if you're finger drumming, so if you want to play along to the sample
this makes it really interesting. So for example...
And what I did here, is for the beat I was working on for the Push performance
again there's 'trigger' that goes through the whole sample
but in my case I wanted to use 'gate' which gives you some more control.
So you have to hold down the pad for the sample to play through.
This made it possible to create a loop with a more chopped sound.
So when building the beat there was a vocal sample I really liked.
And I wanted to use the touch strip in order to pitch it up and down.
So what I did was...
press 'convert', highlighted the pad
and pressed 'midi track'
and it creates a new track for me.
So now, I can use the touch strip.
So when building this performance I relied on follow actions within clips
in order to get from one part of the song to another.
To demonstrate this, let me show you a quick drum beat
and lead line that I created here.
Let's say that I want to have a space to create a variation
that I can record during the performance.
I can set up a follow action to go to the next clip.
I want to create a new empty clip.
And then on the first clip, set up the follow action to go to the empty clip after 2 bars.
Then in the empty clip I can set the follow action to go back to the previous clip after 2 bars.
This gives you some room for improvisation.
Let's see how this works.
The way I use follow actions in my performance is for example:
In this scene there is just a hi-hat running
which I recorded to help transition to the next part of the beat.
But I'm also playing along with a kick, a boom and a clap.
However, all the other clips in the scene have follow actions.
The follow actions automatically start the next scene.
Ther next scene contains an empty clip on the synth track
so I can jump right in and record the lead line.
One thing I learned while making this beat is that while I'm in 'note' mode
I can hold down the 'session' button to preview 'session' mode.
This gives me a shortcut to triggering the next scene.
When I release the 'session' button it automatically returns to 'note' mode.