Like I mentioned in the last post, I’m planning on going to Burning Man this year. One thing I’d like to do out there is some live performances. I’m starting to try to piece together an electronic music rig that is 1) inexpensive, 2) essentially disposable (or rather, I won’t care if it gets thoroughly clogged with playa dust).
Right now I’m thinking something like this:
- A Sequencer of some sort – Most likely a Yamaha QY10 or QY8. Worst case, I have a flaky Alesis MMT8 that I can hopefully coax into not breaking
- Some kind of drum box – this may end up being my RY10, though it’s getting to be like the MMT8 with regards to the buttons. If the sequencer has built in drums, that may be sufficient. I’m also looking at things like the Yamaha RY8, which has some definite perks.
- some kind of synth module – There are a number of options here (Kawai K1(m|r), Boss DS-330, Alesis Nanosynth, many others)
- Something to trigger samples with – maybe a cheapie flash MP3 player?
- My hacked-together optimin may also get some use
I’ve already got a cheapie 3-octave MIDI controller enroute for a related project, so I’m good for that. Anybody have any other ideas? Any good deals?