Brian King, V-drum performance with Bob Lipman and Philippe Vincent from Lyon, France to Los Angeles
We have yet to sort out the details but the dates are set; November 5th – 7th, 10th, 12th-14th at Centre de Creation in La Croix Rousse – Lyon, France. And, believe it or not, while the musicians take the stage in Lyon, I’ll do the same but from my Internet 2 hub, here in Los Angeles. This plus the combination of Roland V-drum makes this a groundbreaking experience, personally speaking. BTW – Philippe’s theater company, SCENES, which has been operating in part with funding from the French government for more than 20 years has just been denied the necessary funds for the new season. Philippe has presented a letter, as well as a signed petition from many supporters, asking the French government to reconsider the decision to deny funds, and thereby forcing the theater company to terminate. Here’s a link to the performances, as well as a link to Philippe’s company;
Performances for ” Le Cabinet du Docteur Narcotique”
Philippe Vincent’s theater company, “SCENES”
Brian King’s video tutorial for the Roland V-drum series
This tutorial is an attempt to take a closer look at some of the audio and MIDI recording capabilities of the Roland V-drum. The video also sheds light on the power, and ease of performance of the MIDI profiles, and how they can be applied to 3rd party plug-ins. When I created this, I opted to use Battery, by Native Instruments, but the same technique applies to any other 3rd party plug-ins. I’ve recently added “Addictive Drums” to my plug-ins and I must say that Addictive Drums is, by far, the best sounding drum plug-in I’ve ever heard. FYI – it does require some MIDI mapping to use with the Roland V-drum. Thankfully, Big Fish included a PDF of the MIDI mapping for the plug-in. It took me a matter of minutes to quickly adapt the “A.D.” mapping to the V-drum. BTW – I played all of all of the intro drum tracks, as well as the closing track ,on the video tutorial with the V-drum triggering the default setup in Addictive Drums. At some point, I might consider doing another video which details all of the setups between the V-drum and Addictive Drums, or anything esle you’d like to see. Enjoy! Brian
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brian king quintet 1981
There’s an mp3 player on the sidebar of this page with 4 tracks from the 1981 smith street studio recording sessions.
The band members included; Rob Aldisert – bass; Mark Fineberg – saxes and flute; Bob Lipman – guitar; Steve Shebar – drums; Brian King – keyboards and compositions
So where are these guys, almost 30 years later…
