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Pyramind sits down with The Opiuo Band leader himself in this two part interview series spiced up with liberal amounts of performance footage from their packed show at Mezzanine in San Francisco on June 25th, 2015. Special thanks to Mezzanine, Hush Concerts and Euphonic Conceptions!
Here in Part 2 we talk about the horn part creation for the live set and how his sax player fits into the band and helps write parts. A bit of a self proclaimed "control freak", Opiuo tells us how the arrangements were done for the tour.
Next up he walks us through his Ableton Live rig in detail, discussing how he splits his patches and color codes his sample banks on the Akai MPK249 to make things easier for him on stage. How he sets up his macros and effects in Live to make the most of his live performance. He also lets us know how he sets up his track arming to make the most of his onstage Macbook Air without overloading the processor. Opiuo also plays on a Yamaha DTX Multi12 liberally through the set for backing horn parts, percussion sounds and more.
Find out what is MIDI synched vs played live and why that was so important to the overall vision of this tour. Moving to the other side of the stage, we go over his guitarist Tony's rig who is in charge of a "shitload of samples" from his side of the stage which are triggered by an Akai MPK225, and a Roland SPD-SX . We get into how he cycles through 8 different Guitar Rig instances in Ableton Live controlled by a Keith McMillan Softstep for his wide array of guitar tones.
Lastly he gives us some words of advice for up and coming producers out there!
