My Techno Live Setup | Elektron Digitakt Octatrack Digitone Analog Heat 1010 Blackbox and Big Sky
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- čas přidán 1. 07. 2024
- In this video I will walk you through my hardware live set up for playing improvisational electronic music. I love to play techno on this setup, but it will work for lots of other styles. I will show you how I use the Elektron Digitakt, Octatrack, Digitone, Analog Heat, 1010 Music Blackbox, and Strymon Bigsky to play techno live.
EZBot: / ezbotmusic
Affiliate Links (Perfect Circuit) to the equipment I use:
Live Gear:
Digitakt: bit.ly/3518hyW
Digitone: bit.ly/3LSmnUm
Octatrack: bit.ly/3HYWAY1
Quadrantid Storm: bit.ly/3Obj1Nk
1010 Blackbox: bit.ly/37kKc7M
Analog Heat: bit.ly/3uEp05r
Strymon Big Sky: bit.ly/3vm8I0a
Eyesy: bit.ly/37QAtpr
Cooks DC7 Power Supply: bit.ly/3uGctP2
Audio Cables: bit.ly/3sOpL9V
Novation Launch Control XL: bit.ly/3I6HAaU
00:00 Intro
01:30 Set Up and Routing
04:07 Octrack as Performance Mixer
06:47 Organizing Sounds
14:15 Performance Effects
18:50 Loopers for Transitions
29:18 Analog Heat Set Up
32:36 Live Jam
Studio Gear:
Arturia Polybrute: bit.ly/3BvV0dP
Moog Subsequent 37: bit.ly/3GYxR4M
Analog Four: bit.ly/3gWJhLQ
Roland TR-8s: bit.ly/3sRWb3c
Korg Minilogue XD: bit.ly/3v2LGwO
Moog Minitaur: bit.ly/3JCqjXa
Arturia Keylab 61 MK II: bit.ly/34HHt7f
TASCAM Model 24 Mixer: bit.ly/3JBKu7H
Beyer Dynamic DT 770 Pro Studio Headphones: bit.ly/3H2QggW
Adam Audio T7V Studio Monitors: bit.ly/3oYxEbH
My Studio Computer:
Mac mini: amzn.to/2Z4kkFS
Home DJ Gear:
Pioneer XDJ RX2: bit.ly/3HUOpMq
Pioneer PLX 1000: bit.ly/3JFvjul
Pioneer HDJ X10: amzn.to/3bthYp8
JBL EON615: amzn.to/2Dv9hxW
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My Label: www.clandestine-recordings.com - Hudba
Really interesting to compare this live setup to the livestream you did with EZBot this month, how the OXI gear has worked in, but the theoretical side is still fundamentally the same. Will forever be tipping the hat on that high-pass/resonance boost tip on the kick. Great stuff.
Thanks for tuning in. Yeah I’ve found other gear that does what I’m looking for even better over time. Still evolving. :) thanks for watching.
Amazing material!! Thanks 🙏
This is so inspiring. Thanks for such a good walkthrough.
I’m really glad you got some inspiration from this. That’s the whole reason I do it. Thank you so much for watching!!
Thanks for that insight, you´re a good explainer! The EZBot video you mentioned was actually what got me buying an octatrack ;) A lot of learning and practicing going on since then haha but your videos were also very helpful!
Great to hear! Let me know if I can help in any way. Thank you so much for watching!
That was a fantastic explanation of your performance methodology. Some really deep and helpful insights gained from it! :)
Awesome! Thank you so much for watching!!
Brilliant! Thank you! and it sounds sick!
Thank you!!
Yeah! Congrats !
Nice work on this. I enjoyed learning your methods!
Awesome! Thanks for watching!
That was so helpful! Thank you so much! Sending love from Tunisia!
Awesome! Thanks for watching!
A lot of time and effort went into this, Eric. Thanks for sharing! :)
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you so much for watching! Hope we can catch up soon
Loved the live jam
That makes me so happy! Thank you for watching!
sweet info! I've mixed (Dj) for a long time, just getting into production/live music, it all started with a Microfreak....and yes, oh yes, down the rabbit hole I go.
great video!
amazing as always~
Thanks so much for watching!!
Thanks Surco !! really really inspiring set up ! I like the way that you explain every single part of your set up. I would personnaly love a video where you could talk us more about the Analog heat ! bye
Yes please more on the setup of heat on your drums. I have the oto boum but your demo makes me wanna switch
The last thing the de two frequencies great!!!! Thanks❤
Really amazing how you paint your canvas! Thank you!!
Glad you liked it. THanks so much for watching!
Thanks for sharing this. Really useful info here and that Octatrack looks like the missing link in my setup. I love the idea of looping the main mix so you can cue patterns. So simple but powerful.
glad you liked it. Thanks for watching
@@SURCOlive how do you CUE to headphones?
@@burime13 the cue out from the Octatrack. The way it’s set up, the record buffers are always listening to the live output so even if a recording is playing you can cue the record buffer to hear the the instruments while the crowd hears the recorded loop. Thanks for watching.
Dope workflow
Thank you! Thanks so much for watching!
You just sold a used analog heat my friend, it was a little boomy on my speakers but you represented it's role in the signal chain well! Love your workflow!
Thanks, glad you got something useful out of the videos. Thank you so much for watching!
Very good video, thanks for your work and effort, keep it up man.. The only thing that I want analog heat even more now lol 🙄😄
Thanks so much for watching!
Great 👍
Thank you so much! It means a lot coming from you! Thanks for watching!!
@@SURCOlive i have the octatrack since many years, and never really got into it. but how you work is really interresting
@@Robert_Babicz the Octatrack took me a while to decide how I wanted to use it. It’s so flexible that it gets overwhelming. I’m only using a small fraction of what it can do, but it really works for me. Thanks again for watching. I love your work!
Oh my! I love what you're doing but it is obvious to me that there are years of learning behind this!
Awesome, I plan to use similar setup plus a small modular synth. I don't have a Digitakt or Blackbox but have drums covered with Octatrack and modular synth case and Bluebox for mixer/recorder. No need for Digitakt as Octatrack does better job and would be extra cost and space for me to deal with.
Thanks for the dive. The Heat "without that resonant boost" @30:45 min to @31:15 min mark didn't translate during the demo, as there was no change in the sound, if you ask me. So the "Big Key to the Sound" didn't come across. :-)
Thanks for the feedback. In order to hear the difference you’ll need to listen on something (headphones or monitors) which have a frequency response low enough to pick up the sound. All of the boost is happening between 30Hz and 50Hz (mostly around 40Hz). I just listened back to the video on my monitors and the change is definitely there. This lack of low end frequency response in a lot of monitors can make it really difficult to dial in the bottom end. Not so important for casual listening but vital on a club sound system. I hope you are able to check it out as it is truly a key component to my live sound. You’ve given me the idea to do a video on this topic. Thank you! Thanks again for the feedback and thanks so much for watching!!!
@@SURCOlive True, true. I wasn't using my monitors while watching this video, as I was just chilling to a glass of wine, feet up on the desk and sound coming thru (external) computer speakers that don't perform the same. As it was more than my first glass of wine, it didn't occur to me that it wasn't just crappy CZcams audio. So, good point and I'll try it differently (as I'm potentially interested in the Heat).
@@raytbrown2 Yeah, check it out. The difference it makes is shocking. As I mentioned, I was skeptical if it would live up to the hype. It di for me 100%. Thanks again for watching!!
Thank you very much for your insight and explanation Eric. This will help me al lot to set up and route my Elektron and Roland Boutique gear. I have to make choices though to bring back my set-up, but it's difficult to not include my TB-03, SE-02, SH-01A, JU-06A or JX-08 (I can't choose which one to let aside). In my case I am thinking of putting the AR mk2 and A4 mk2 on the left side (drum, percussion and bassline) and DN with maybe two Boutiques on the right side (lead, arp and pads) before going into the OT and AH. Creating loops beforehand (with the gear I will exclude on my live setup) and play them via one or two tracks of the Octatrack (in my case) for the liveset is a great solution, but with these machines it's already a big setup. Ofcourse it's a start to practise what works best.
Sounds like a great rig no matter how you go. On thing to consider is that the Analog 4 and the Digitone each have 4 unique voices each. This meant at with just those two you have effectively 8 synth tracks for bass, leads, arps, plucks, stabs, etc. You would just be missing something polyphonic (depending on the type of music you are making), so the JU-06a might fill that space. I don't need much in the way of chords or pads in my music, so pad samples work for me. I know its hard to chose for sure. I leave my A4 and AR at home because they are far less portable than the DT and DN. I also leave my SH01a, Minitaur, TB03, and others because they really only do one monophonic voice each. I love that there is so many options for us all to dial in exactly what we love. Thanks so much for watching!
@@SURCOlive Thanks for your reply! So as I read you already made the same though decicions to decimate a proportion of your gear for a workable liveset. I am just 2,5 years ahead and just 1 year with Elektron gear after started with only a MC-707 in late 2019 (which I sold to justify the OT mk2). So things got really out of hand and in a short time. They have a name for that. 😇Let's say people like you and others in this community inspired me. Now it's time to invest no more money, but a lot of time to learn all ins and outs of mainly the Elektrons. 😅 I still have an eye on the DT, but my AR mk2 should take care of that. 😅 Thanks and please keep inspiring and helping the community. Hopefully I can add to that in the future when I am more experienced and also have some video editing skills.
Thanks for the kind words. My AR MK2 is my all time favorite drum machine and I use it all the time. it was just not portable enough for my live setup. Please feel free to reach out at any time with questions, and I will do my best to help. Have you seen my new video on choosing hardware for live? It might be helpful to see what I have each doing and why. Thanks so much for watching!
@@SURCOlive I will watch it later for sure. Have a nice weekend!
@@marcelsmoorenburg Same to you!
Great video, lots of in depth info. Which character setting do you use on the analog heat?
I like the second one, ‘Saturation’. Thanks so much for watching!
Awesome setup and a great explanation of it, well done mate! Which ezbot template are you using there? I know he has differnt ones by now.
Thanks! On this one I think I was using the original one. Now I’m using the techno template. Thanks for watching!
Great content man! I may be mistaken but did you mention in another video when traveling for work you bring the Blackbox with you as a sketch pad? I have a similar setup as you just use a MPC instead of the Digitakt. I am looking at the Blackbox to incorporate in my live setup but I also travel alot and looking for something small to take with me and the BB seems to be a viable option. Thanks for your effort in putting these videos out.
Glad you like the videos. I do take the Black Box with me sometimes because of its size. I recently got a Dirtywave M8 that I am learning. I Also love the Deluge and Elektron boxes (Digitakt and Syntakt) for travel due to their power to size ratio. Thanks so much for watching!
thanks a lot!
Any time! Thanks so much for watching!!
@@SURCOlive do you have tracks released on labels?
I do! I've been releasing for quite a while under a number of aliases. I've released as 'SURCO' 'Eric Bingham' and 'Ricard' on labels like Deepalma, JourneyDeep, Eclipse, Black Vault, Tech-It, Chinitos, My Own Beat, Black Square, Manchester Underground Music, Funk' N Deep, Phuture Trax, Neptuun City, Dance Lab Recordings, Aerotek Recordings, Bump, Kool Katz, Hed Kandi, Kontakt, Miami Underground Records, Aurical, Kult, Audio Planet, Macro, S2H Digital, and more. I also have my own label Clandestine Recordings since 2014.
This is amazing! Excellent content! I’ve already got 5 out of the 7 pieces of gear you’ve got here … so I’m heading in the right direction.. this is my goal spot on! Performing live gigs with spontaneous and improvised creation of sound. I’m a visual artist firstly - this is my second love - making sounds! Thanks so much and I’m so excited to have found this YT from the Elektron group over on Facebook. Now I’ve got to sell some more art to get the Octatrack and the XL … plus I’m looking at getting a Zoom Livetrak L-20 mixer to add to the Yamaha MG20XU … analog and digital combined.
Awesome!! So happy this connected. My next addition is actually for visuals!!! :) check out the Eyesy video synth from Critter and Guitari. Excited to check out what you do with your gear. Thanks so much for watching!!
I’m pretty a newbie still.
Thanks so much I’ve added your IG.
I’m an old school punk now past the half century and wanting to return to music again to create live performances alongside my arts practice … my sound direction would be akin to Trent Reznor / NIN / Prodigy / sound scapes that still utilise guitar alongside the sequences. Just need a foot switch pedal to change up the sequences etc.
@@SURCOlive I love how the BlackBox is going through the XL faders 🎚… I need to get one of those !!!
Very cool. We have a lot of similarities. I grew up playing guitar and bass. Similar age too. I went from New Order, The Cure, Depeche Mode, to NIN, Nitzer Ebb, Skinny Puppy, Front 242, then into techno and house. You will have to shoot me links to some of your music. I'd love to check it out.
That Launch Control XL is so useful. I've used it to control the Digitakt, the Octatrack, and now the Blackbox. Super versatile midi controller.
I shouldn't have watched this. Major gas right now haha I'm definitely buying the octatrack next.
I haven't finished watching yet so you may answer this question but how do you handle key changes? Or how do you organise everything so you know what key the tracks are in?
Great video 🙌
I just heard you say you keep the keys relative to manage it easier.
Do you think this setup would still work for more progressive/melodic techno? What would you adjust to suit?
Hey Surco, love your videos! Keep up the good work. Just some questions. I have a similar setup and getting ready for some live gigs using it. Do you have the Octa as midi master? in your video you said (while the looper was playing) you can switch (or load) a whole new set of patterns while pointing to the Digitone, thats where I struggle. I have my Octa as a midi clock and when I try to load a new song on my Digitone or Digitakt it stops the sequence on these machines (while the octa keeps on running, as it should), and in order to get them back into the rythem of the tune is to "earball" the and hit playbuttons on the sequencer of those machines (tone and takt), and that sounds horrible when I bring back the live signal if I screwed up the timings. Any tips? I was about to buy a E-RM multi clock, but I dont really want to spend the money on sth like that :) Thanks!
Hey! Glad you are digging the videos. If you make sure that the midi settings on your machines are correct, this shouldn't be an issue. I use it the same way with no issues. Set the Octa to send clock, Transport, and Program Change (Program Change only if you are controlling that from the Octa. I don't). Set the Digi machines to receive those. Also, double check that the Inputs and outputs are set to MIDI and not USB. Once it is set like this, the Digi machines will stay in sync even when changing patterns and projects. You won't need to stop them, but if you do, they will start in time. I don't ever stop my machines playing live, but theoretically could. THanks for watching! I hope this helps.
Excellent videos as always. One question, you talked about cuing while having the loop running. Do you use the octartack here and send the thru tracks to the cue to hear what is coming up?
Yes I do! Well, sort of. Who the loop is playing the effect is muting the output of the individual tracks. When is not muted is the record buffers that are listening to those tracks. By 'cueing' the record buffer you can hear what is playing without having it turned up in the mix. To cue the drums, it is one buffer and the melodics are another. Cue plus that record button sends that signal to the cue output where I have my headphones plugged in. I hope this helps. Thanks so much for watching!!
@@SURCOlive i see! Have to try this then. Many thanks for the prompt answer.
Any time! Hope it helps.
How do you deal with using a controller when changing banks or PARTs? I'm debating using LCXL with my OT but i found it a bit annoying that the perimeters will jump to your new part or bank settings, and your controller will not...
I actually don’t change parts during performances so it wasn’t an issue. I’m actually not sure how that would work because the cc messages are by location not by which device n active.
Hello Surco, does your DC7 get hot? I mean hot, not warm....... thanks for your great videos and sharing your opinion! I have learned a lot from you! cheers from Bavaria
Yes it does. I usually turn it off until a few minutes before I play. It’s fine for a few hours, but if you have to go longer it really needs some active cooling from a fan or something else. Thanks so much for watching!
thanks@@SURCOlive !
@SURCO Hi 👋🏻 Eric I’m currently sourcing a Novation Launch Controller XL … I forgot to ask is yours the MkII model?
Yes it is. Love mine. It is so flexible to use with so many pieces of gear.
If you are buying one anyway, there is an affiliate link in the video description that will take you to the one I use. (And it helps support the channel :) )
Brilliant..brilliant...b r i l l l l l iant!!
Thank you! And thanks so much for watching!!!
@@SURCOlive Every time my friend..eevery time. Pure talent and inspiration here:))
@@enelaoszafetas9300 thank you so much!
what happened to the Quadrantid Storm?
This video was from before I got it:) thanks so much for watching!
The Digitone is far more sexy with black keycaps
I had to get rid of the ‘chiclets’ :) thanks for watching!
Is it posible to use ableton live instead of blackbox in such setup
You could for sure, but my goal from the start was to do this without a computer. There are a number of other hardware samplers you could use as well. The Octatrack is good with samples but in my setup it is doing other things. Thanks for watching!
@@SURCOlive thnx for u fast answer, the best tutorial haw to use those machines all together, and my octa will do same things for shure, maybe one more question, du u have tamplet for launch xl to use with blackbox
And what would you suggest besides 1010
The Blackbox was my top choice after testing a bunch. Other good options for samples are SP404, MPC, deluge, or even the Digitakt. It all depends on what type of samples. If you will use one shots like drum samples or synth stabs, there are more options. If you need it to time stretch longer samples and pitch shift make sure your choice does that well. For those things the Blackbox was the best I’ve found especially considering the size and weight. I hope this helps.
Digi tone and tack is the 3rd the mk Analog heat mk 2 ?
Yes. There is the Octatrack, 1010 Blackbox, Strymon Big Sky, and Novation Launch Control XL also. Thanks so much for watching!
@@SURCOlive sick setup I been eyeing that analog heat mk2 for some saturation and color for my mpc one
@@SonicVibe it is a recent addition. I didn’t think it could possible be worth the money to just ‘make things sound better’. I was so wrong! It is live sound mastering voodoo magic. It’s crazy how it makes everything sound better. I go into how I use it in this video, but I will do more on it for sure. Thanks again for watching!
@@SURCOlive great feedback what I was hoping for cause it seemed pricy like ya said and I’ll check that out thank you 🙏
Let me know what you end up doing. I’m always interested in how others use their setups.
I don't like this video... because I am still waiting to be able to purchase my Octatrack Mk2 to replace the Boss RC505MK2 that just died on me. Octatrack is where I should have put my money in the first place. 😞 Really Phenomenal sounds BTW!
THanks! You will love the Octatrack (after a frustrating first couple of weeks ;) ). It is an amazing piece of kit that can be a lot of different things for different people. Just don't try to learn it all at once. Learn how to do the things you want to do first, then dig in piece by piece. Thanks so much for watching!
@@SURCOlive One question though...I have noticed everyone switching to the Anniversary edition OTs. is there any noticeable difference between the Older Grey/Black ones the this edition??
@@earnestgildon2704 No difference at all. They only made 350 of them, so people snagged them as keepsakes of the 10 year anniversary of the brand. The all black version is exactly the same, only a bit less of a collector's item. The gray and even the MK1 are all great gear. MK2's on Reverb are going for $900 to $1200, but the anniversary editions are starting at $2400. Just because they were a limited run.
to be honest this setup is bs - too much redundancy. If you're good with octa, then all that you can do with this, you can do with octa alone (with RK-002 cable). Combine octa with a multitimb synth, such as virus, and possibilities are endless. This setup is for GASers who instead of putting in work, look for reasons to buy another box.
Opinion noted. What an amazing time where everyone can find the setup that works best for their creative and performance workflows. I hope you are as happy with the workflow of your live setup as I am with mine. Thanks for watching!
Fk yes man. Nice drive on this one. Thats an amazing kick drum is it a sample?
Yes it is! Made on the Analog Rytm layering analog drum synth with sample and added effects. Then it is resampled to a one shot and loaded into the Digitakt to play live. THanks for watching!
And what about the rumble? How do you obtain that on digitakt? Your sound is crazy
@@cristianlorenzi6270 Do you have OT as well? EZbot did a vidja