One groovy tune off of the Quasar - One Day album. This is Plan A, part one of a duology. Be sure to listen also to part two, entitled Plan B.

Plan A

Second part of a duology from the Quasar - One Day album.

Plan B

Jamming with audio file loops. Taken from several Quasar and Fractal Cowboy tracks, including Plan B off of Quasar - One Day album. 

Equipment used:
APC-20 and QuNexus

Quasar - Blue House Jam No. 1 [149bpm]

This is a live experiment. All sounds are arranged live. In this installment, I am playing around with master effects. I have seven different macro knobs that affect the whole track, and one that only affects the kick and bass, creating instant kick drum fills.

created in blue house studio, san francisco, california, by quasar in August of 2012.

Quasar - Sentient Blings [ARRANGEMENT-149bpm]

1st remix of Give Peace A Trance circa 2002

Quasar - Give Peace A Trance (Burning Man RMX)

This was a live piece I performed at LoveFest 2008. The whole arrangement is live, I created it in real time. The bits and pieces are mostly all original-- I took loops from my songs after I wrote them. I am using about 8 tracks in Ableton with various effects. The kick and bassline are on the same track, then there is a percussion track, atmosphere track, and a non-percussive loop track. There are two tracks for one-hit samples: one for vocal samples and one for any hits (cymbals, bangs, whooshies, etc..). Finally, there are two lead tracks. One plays prepared, 32- to 64-bar sequences (as .wav audio). The other, last lead track is special. It is hard to explain, but it basically allows me to create a lead in real-time. Spontaneous live lead action!

I have everything mapped to my midi controller. The knobs are assigned to effects. Some are just for the lead and others are global effects. The keys are assigned by octave. For instance, the C, C#, and D are always kick/bass loops. E, F, and F# are always drum loops, and so on. My keyboard has 11 octaves, so 11octavesx12keysX16midi-channels of samples for me to play with. That's 2112 different samples(!)

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