This was done without the use of any computers:
I've been developing my little army of droids with which to accompany myself on fretless in a looser, more hands-on fashion than with the stuff I've done on computer sequencing/DAW software. It ensures that no two performances can be exactly alike (with an element of danger, for sure, but hey) and perhaps is a bit closer to that Robert Fripp ideal of music for the present moment only. (But unlike Fripp, I have no problem with recording those unique performances.)
Fretless appears only at the beginning and end of this shortened version; normally I'd take more time to develop raga lines over the groove, but I'm trying to condense the button-pushing & knob-tweaking choreography, so to speak, to get the piece down to an even shorter, filmable length for a video demo I'm going to do of it soon with a local professional videographer. (stay tuned.)
Cast of characters:
Guitar: one feed through Schertler Basik stick-on piezo, the other through Roland VG-99. I prefer the Basik, stuck just in front of the bridge, near the higher strings, to the Godin's own bridge piezo, though that is still useful as the driver of the 13-pin out to the Roland. The Basik gives me a tone closer to sarod. (Or maybe sarod meets oud, due to the nylon strings. Sarods didn't always have metal fingerboards, but rather wood. It was Baba Allauddin Khan, Ali Akbar Khan's father, who innovated the metal fingerboard.)
Yamaha Tenori-on through Korg Kaoss Pad 3 through Korg Mini-Kaoss Pad
Korg Kaossilator through 2nd Mini-Kaoss Pad
2nd Kaoss Pad 3 on FX loop of mixer.
And Raagini digital tanpura providing the drone.
A very rough preliminary mix (straight to my Edirol digital recorder; some compression problems.)
And oh, yes, btw, I did this in C rather than C#. (For working with a couple of local musicians, one of whom is a violinist, so he doesn't have to retune a half step.) But a couple of button pushes and a retuning of the guitar, et voila....