A few months ago, on Christmas, my Dad surprised me with the Fishman TriplePlay Wireless Midi Controller. When I tell you I felt like a kid again, it would be an understatement because I could hardly contain myself! The ideas for how I would use this new controller danced around my head uncontrollably, like dancing to dubstep and I really just wanted to head back home to my studio and get started right away!
Fact was I could now make dubstep, with my guitar, my native instrument Been playing the guitar since I was 15, 38 now that’s 23 years of guitar…wow! Started with Bass but ended up playing a 6-string as well. I could never really get into the Piano, tried on a few occasions and still do because I will eventually overcome my piano handicap.
Anyway, guitar is another story, anything I hear on it, I can find it and play it. I know my way around the fret board and when I imagined what it would be like to trigger loops and then play right over them with my fx and processors, my head exploded with infinite possibilities…what?!?!
I heard about the Fishman, thanks to my friend Marc Bauman, owner of House Recording Studios on Long Island, who told me about some dope new software called ThinkPlay, Â too bad for me they only support Mac right now. I did not know what device you needed until I joined the ThinkPlay beta and they said I needed the Fishman TriplePlay Wireless controller…They were right and yes I did!
So now I have this awesome of controller and I am still as excited as the day I got it. I’ll be posting videos and mixes made entirely with this bad ass device shortly so stay tuned.