ebandym: Yooo pierce, what software did you get started with and which ones do you use now the most?

OfficialPierceFulton: I started on Reason and then moved onto Logic which I've stuck with ever since. Started on Logic 9 and have moved on to Logic X but I also use Ableton for all of my warping and some processing stuff because I love their stock plugins.

October 17, 2017

This live show is something I've been thinking about for quite some time...Electronic music is extremely difficult to perform live but if you embrace technology instead of saying like "I'm gonna just play all my stuff on guitars and drum pads" you can get really creative. I'm using a big combination of midi and audio, MIDI is being used for some of the synthesizers/drum machines and all of my lighting so that some information can be sent to the synths without me fumbling on the spot, I have an MPC sampler for triggering sounds I can't recreate with the gear I have at hand, 4 guitars/bass/small stringed instruments running through loop stations and other FX pedals and I'm just using Ableton to launch loops, go from song to song seamlessly and control my lights. My goal for the show was to create the same experience I have when I bring a friend into my studio and show him/her how all my gear works. Create loops, build stuff on the spot, and reimagine existing songs. So as a result it's going to ebb and flow between playing guitar and singing some of my more standard sounding songs, recreating elements through loops of my more heavily electronic songs, and my biggest concern was never letting the energy die. I've seen some electronic music performed live that just starts and ends each song and it feels super weird, it's dance music so I do want to keep the dancing in mind. I still have a crap load of rehearsing to do but it's going to be really fun and people who like my new music or my old music will be very engaged.

The thing I'm most proud of is I have it organized where I can play any order of songs I want at any given moment (although I currently have a lot of them flowing by key so they transition nicely) and I can build upon any part of any of my songs for 5 minutes or for 30 seconds. My biggest concern was not being tied to some sort of timed thing, everything from the lights to the BPM changes between songs and stems used to create the loops are completely at my control. Basically if a crowd wants Kuaga for an hour and a half I could totally do that lol.

August 26, 2020:

ExAstris23: Hi Pierce! What's your go-to method for adding movement and interest to your tracks?

OfficialPierceFulton: lately I have a great trick. If you're using Ableton and specifically Live 10 Suite that comes with Max for Live there's a wonderful tool called LFO. It's a pretty versatile LFO that you can apply to basically any parameter in Ableton. You can hear it a lot on my new album when things gently ebb and flow or have complete randomness. I put it on a lot of synths filter cutoffs and resonance so it feels like someone is gently adjusting those parameters the whole song. I also like it because each render or listen of the song can sound slightly different, which keeps things fresh in my ears.

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