We had a great time playing with Mark and Kyle of Antacid Crew! Always a blast! Thanks to Nexus for the invite, it was a great party with great people.

I just got my Alesis IODock for iPad. It solves some serious live performance problems for me!! Here they are:

1. Playing my iPad live is awesome, but keeping it powered up is a decision between power and midi data. Previously, I would plug in the camera connection kit for midi or a power plug. No more. The IODock has power to keep my iPad charging while in use, and a square style USB port.

2. Speaking of midi… Previously I’d have to connect a midi out usb device from my computer to a midisport UNO connected by the camera connection kit to the ipad. Giant hassles! Now with the IODock, I just go directly from the computer to the dock. No midi devices whatsoever between the computer and the iPad. Sweet!!

3. Flexible outputs… Since there are quarter inch output jacks and a headphone jack, I can use whichever I need to. Sometimes playing live, I can experience the iPad being too quiet… The headphone jack on the IODock gets *crazy* loud. So I have options for different mixing environments.

4. Looks professional. Always helps. Ima cover up this giant Alesis logo post haste, guys. (Sorry Alesis.) But the case looks good, the tilt is nice. A definite plus.

And I guess there are a bunch of other things that are in this box, but the items above cover the price of admission for me! Well done Alesis. This seems like it’s going to be a great product.

-steve

Well it was a long fun night. We had technical problems and came up with great solutions. It was great, and I hope we get to do it again next year. Here’s an hour long video of us playing. Sorry for the lack of light. You get an idea of what was going on, though. It’s available in 720p… and the sound is better at that resolution.

Here’s the flyer for us playing at SubZERO 2011!! As long as the rain waits until Saturday to show up, it’s going to be crazy awesome! Be there!

Thanks again to Matthew Gamez for the great photo!

We will be playing throughout the night at the 2011 SubZERO street festival, June 3rd, 2011. Check out the website for more info: http://www.subzerofestival.com/

Here’s us playing at the south bay music swap event in may 2011… I had a lot more footage, but this clip has all three of us in it, so I figured it would be cool to post. I shot it with my gopro hd hero, hence the exxxttrrreeeeme wide angle. Enjoy!

This clip goes on up to 720p… youtube has smiled upon me, so I can upload looooonger movies.

Wow, we had a blast playing at WORKS’ new location on 365 Market street, downtown san jose last night!! We were joined by a talented group of painters and a huuuge crowd. It was awesome. There’s some photos and video coming later… but for now, here’s the audio:

Haptic Synapses live at Works/san jose 2011-05-06

We were invited to play at the South Bay Music Swap and had a great time yesterday!! Here’s the audio:

haptic synapses live at south bay music swap may 1, 2011
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A couple of weeks ago we played on KZSU’s Eklectronik Groove. Huge thanks to Holt Sorenson for setting us up and hosting us!

Here’s the whole set:
Haptic Synapses live on the Eclektronik Groove, KZSU Stanford 90.1

photo credit: Solarno!

Derek was unable to join us, so QORSER and I did our best to rock out at the Euphrat at De Anza College. Here’s the recording:

Haptic Synapses live at the Euphrat

I can hardly believe it, but Solarno drove up 5 hours to see the show!! Whaaaat! Thanks dude! It was awesome to talk all kinds of shop with you afterwards!