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[Chris Hahn]

Hello!

Chris Hahn
Creative Specialist
Audio | Video | Graphics | Web | Drummer | Controllerist

I work in creative media solutions, and live in Salem, Oregon, USA with my wife and 7 year old daughter.

I started making electronic music in the late 80's when my parents bought me a Roland Sound Canvas, and I discovered rudimentary sampling and made poorly executed attempts at Peter Gabriel covers. I was a terrible student in school, and to help me pass my English final, my teacher let me submit a MIDI project. He had an early version of Cubase, and I hand sequenced "Saint Agnes and the Burning Train" from Sting's "Soul Cages" album (Sting was a huge early influence on my drumming), transferred it to my crappy Yamaha PSR500m, watched his mouth drop when I played it for him, and passed my exam.

Sequel to that, in the mid 90's I discovered the mp3 codec, which at the time only ran in DOS and took an average of 15 minutes PER SONG to convert, and started borrowing music from co-workers. Someone handed me an early EP of BT's "Tripping the Light Fantastic" and I was hooked

Over the years, I have experimented with all kinds of styles and many different kinds of controllers, and somewhere in 2003 I realized that while I really enjoyed writing EDM, it seemed like it would alot more fun to play it, but I wasn't really interested in becoming a DJ.

In late 2005, I discovered Daedelus using the original 256 "bitbox" which later became the monome line of handmade control interfaces. I geeked out as much as I could with Max/MSP (i'm NOT a programmer), and have since owned a 40h, a monome 64, and a monome 128. When Max for Live came along, and Akai put out their Launchpad interfaces, I moved to Ableton Live and launchpad combinations with other MIDI interfaces to take my music sketches and perform them in a non-linear way; what I always wanted to do for 10 years.

I don't have as much time to make music as I would like to these days, but I still keep my ear to the ether and stay current on what's going on, new tech, and the future of electronic music.

Here's a link to what how I perform these days

[julien]

nice to see you here

[kanisi]

Chris Hahn, on 17 October 2011 - 18:21, said:

Hello!

Chris Hahn
Creative Specialist
Audio | Video | Graphics | Web | Drummer | Controllerist

I work in creative media solutions, and live in Salem, Oregon, USA with my wife and 7 year old daughter.

I started making electronic music in the late 80's when my parents bought me a Roland Sound Canvas, and I discovered rudimentary sampling and made poorly executed attempts at Peter Gabriel covers. I was a terrible student in school, and to help me pass my English final, my teacher let me submit a MIDI project. He had an early version of Cubase, and I hand sequenced "Saint Agnes and the Burning Train" from Sting's "Soul Cages" album (Sting was a huge early influence on my drumming), transferred it to my crappy Yamaha PSR500m, watched his mouth drop when I played it for him, and passed my exam.

Sequel to that, in the mid 90's I discovered the mp3 codec, which at the time only ran in DOS and took an average of 15 minutes PER SONG to convert, and started borrowing music from co-workers. Someone handed me an early EP of BT's "Tripping the Light Fantastic" and I was hooked

Over the years, I have experimented with all kinds of styles and many different kinds of controllers, and somewhere in 2003 I realized that while I really enjoyed writing EDM, it seemed like it would alot more fun to play it, but I wasn't really interested in becoming a DJ.

In late 2005, I discovered Daedelus using the original 256 "bitbox" which later became the monome line of handmade control interfaces. I geeked out as much as I could with Max/MSP (i'm NOT a programmer), and have since owned a 40h, a monome 64, and a monome 128. When Max for Live came along, and Akai put out their Launchpad interfaces, I moved to Ableton Live and launchpad combinations with other MIDI interfaces to take my music sketches and perform them in a non-linear way; what I always wanted to do for 10 years.

I don't have as much time to make music as I would like to these days, but I still keep my ear to the ether and stay current on what's going on, new tech, and the future of electronic music.

Here's a link to what how I perform these days

Love what you're doing with the Launchpads - any chance I could quiz you more on the setup?

[Chris Hahn]

Quiz away. :-)

[kanisi]

Cheers Chris. This might sound remedial but in the video did you have one launchpad set up to control a sequencer and the other in one of the user modes?