by d_0men on Wed Mar 21, 2018 2:21 am
It depends on the crowd , where your playing and how you want to approach your live set.
Varied I find is good and more interesting, a locked bpm is good and can be tuned live, and adjusted to the crowd which is handy, but it can also give you problems if some patterns you want to play don't sound to good at certain bpm's, but you can always adjust live.
The last live sets i've played with 2 electribe 2's, have had no bpm lock, and a few bpm jumps, crowd loved it but some patterns may not sound that great at certain bpm's (samples mainly) But long as you check things over, etc, (time slicing samples is handy on the sampler) you'll be fine.
Really depends, but i'd say in general best to have it varied, for variation, and feeling the crowd.