Pat Metheny

Role

Guitarist Bassist Composer

Genre

Jazz Funk / Soul Stage & Screen

Group

Pat Metheny Group Joni Mitchell (band) Noa & Pat Metheny

Credits

In On It From This Place Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny

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Guitarist Bassist Composer

Genre

Jazz Funk / Soul Stage & Screen

Group

Pat Metheny Group Joni Mitchell (band) Noa & Pat Metheny

Credits

In On It From This Place Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny

Social

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Ableton Live

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Most exciting for Metheny are the improvisational possibilities available to him in performing with his Orchestrion. Rather than simply playing on top of sequenced parts, he is in complete control of the parameters of every instrument via Ableton Live and can switch between, say, having a marimba or a vibraphone shadowing the guitar top lines he improvises on stage.

"Live, I'm able to do a lot of variations on things. I can also start with nothing and build a whole world, using Ableton. It's a real different environment. I mean, obviously DP is a linear environment. Ableton is a sort of 3D environment, if you're using velocity. I can have lots of things kind of lying in wait that I only get to by increasing velocity. So there's a lot of control aspects of the Orchestrionic instruments that I can do live that are really fascinating. The panorama available is everything from the most composed, the most planned?out to absolutely improvised. And sort of every shade in between.”

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Avid Sibelius

DAW Software

"So for me, as much as I love the front end of all this — by that I mean the Sibelius aspect, the Digital Performer aspect, the Ableton Live aspect — I've never been crazy about the result. And when you have one thing going into one speaker, that's sort of OK for me — like a guitar or a bass into an amp. And yet at the same time, to have a whole bunch of things crammed into two speakers, which is what we all do, it's not that satisfying to me.”

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