Steve SleeveInterview
Musician, DJ (The Hood Internet)
Adapted from Steve Sleeve's interview on Uses This, published 16 July 2015. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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ABX has managed to keep his M-Audio Trigger Finger intact over the years.
I broke mine and switched over to an AKAI MPD18.
We also have lighting information that runs from one of the MacBooks through an ENTTEC DMX USB Pro into a set of custom-built LED tiles.
Media
Our sets are performed using Ableton Live.
Ableton uses its IAC Driver to send MIDI information over to video-mixing program Modul8, which then launches lighting sequences assigned to whichever MIDI notes are coming from Ableton.