Girl Talk Gives a Tour of His Computer

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Girl Talk Gives a Tour of His Computer

Apologies if this has been posted already. I searched but didn’t find:

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/blogs/rolling-stone-video-blog/girl-talk-takes-rolling-stone-on-a-tour-of-his-computer-20110412

It’s funny because he’s the perfect candidate for one or more midi controllers but instead he’s mastered pointing-and-clicking through complex sets of loops. His live performance involves AudioMulch and he edit loops in Adobe Audition. I just couldn’t handle mixing with little check boxes.

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LOL @ the girl doing the interview

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Didnt watch the whole thing but i couldnt enjoy the way he does things:O YAWN but every person has their way of doing things i supose.

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Props to him for still using Windows XP, but you could do the same stuff with Ableton, and have a lot more fun with it and have it be less of a headache.

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Seems like he could do it more easily with Ableton Live and a Novation Launchpad or something. Although I guess once you’re used to a certain workflow, it’s hard to change everything.

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I was thinking the same thing. Using a midi controller would be probably more exciting to watch from the audience aswell.

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Yup, Ableton and a low latency soundcard and no more “kicks in the next 1/16”

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yeah i didnt think djing in a “loop” based platform (DAW’s like Ableton and the like) could be any more confusing than Ableton is.

guess i was wrong. lol

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I used to get like that in the office if I tried using XP for anything productive too !:smiley:

Honetly I thought I’d pissed myself !!

Get him a decent soundcard & APC40 & Someone give that man an Ableton sponsorship …

The poor bloke, that interface really REALLY looks complicated for the sake of being complicated !

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This made me LOL. He acted like it was suppose to do that.. Idiot.

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This!

[quote=“deevey”]

I used to get like that in the office if I tried using XP for anything productive too ![/quote]
THAT!!

Fuck I always thought there must be something wrong with me that I thought this guy was such a bore. Now I understand!

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Wasn’t he a computer programmer? That would explain why he insists on doing it the hard way.

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gawd. doesnt look fun. around about 7 mins he says it’s impossible for him to mute something and start 3 samples at the same time. He needs ableton and an APC40, or something.

and this.

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[quote]Wasn’t he a computer programmer? That would explain why he insists on doing it the hard way.
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And Notepad is “real” Webdesign :wink:

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I’ve tried audiomulch. It’s easier in it’s own way. I’m moving to ableton however and grabbing a launchpad. He does what he does well. If it ain’t broke…

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didn’t grab me tbh…

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This is true to an extent. But sending letters by post isn’t technically ‘broken’, but funnily enough most of us use email these days!

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Since it hasn’t been mentioned yet, I think he should switch to Ableton live.

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Think about not only the fact that he started remixing before the year 2000, but also how insanely popular he has become doing things his way. His workflow was developed before controllers were more then a concept.

This is a great example of talent and vision eclipsing technology.

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Proof that you don’t need any controllers - let alone the newest/most expensive controllers…

+1 on Ableton. He could do some awesome stuff with it. But why should he?