Have you thought about using a drum-centric setup? Basically having an electronic drumkit as your primary controller, with some of the pads programmed to give bass or chordal sounds. With two feet and two drumsticks one can create a whole lot of complexity per second, and it feels very natural and not constricted at all. Many of the beats I hear in your videos seem playable with one hand free, so you could trigger bass sounds on a 6-pad with your off hand or something.
Have you thought about using a drum-centric setup? Basically having an electronic drumkit as your primary controller, with some of the pads programmed to give bass or chordal sounds. With two feet and two drumsticks one can create a whole lot of complexity per second, and it feels very natural and not constricted at all. Many of the beats I hear in your videos seem playable with one hand free, so you could trigger bass sounds on a 6-pad with your off hand or something.
That does sound interesting! Some downsides:
I don’t know how to play drums with my hands, so I’d need to work up that skill a lot.
I’m not sure I’d be happy with giving up the 88 velocity-sensitive options I have with my fingers for the smaller number I’d have with drum pads.
I like to play note simultaneously, and reducing from ten fingers to two sticks seems not ideal from that perspective.
But I bet someone could do something along these lines that sounded very good!
If you mean the drumbeats they’re all played with just my feet, so in some sense they’re done with both hands free!
Or maybe drums+keys, like this. The fullest sounding one-person band I’ve ever seen.
He’s very good! Probably the fullest sounding one-person band I’ve seen, though, is Mezerg.