How I Play: Johannes Brecht's impressive Ableton Live + outboard gear setup
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- čas přidán 25. 10. 2023
- Johannes Brecht is a bit of an Ableton mastermind. He's built an incredible outboard modular performance setup that he takes us on a tour of in this How I Play video. Watch more How I Plays here: • How I Play: DJ / Produ...
How I Play is an original video series started by DJ Techtools in 2011 that aims to go beyond the traditional artist interview and explore how unique live performances work. The series focus on the tools and technologies behind the performance and how the artists build and control their rigs. - Jak na to + styl
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Was für ein raffiniertes Setup. Hut ab für die ganze Vorbereitung und die Idee dahinter. 😍🫶🏽
This is the best series on your channel. Much insight. Thanks!
Love it love it love it. yes yes yes.
That sounded amazing through my speakers. Your mix is so crispy. Beautiful work.
This is a super impressive and brilliantly conceived setup.
whoaaaa sick setup man , love the minimalist approach
How do you connect NI Kontrol F1 with Ableton like a midi device ? Please show me details and steps. Thanks.
Thanks for hosting DJ Tech Tools
Hi Johanness, is there a chance to find somewhere that f1 script? isn't available anymore on the site listed in the description
@@dhaze909 the script is only a small part of my huge max4live patch for my liveset. i developed it very specifically for my needs - unfortunately it is not possible to separate the f1 feature. but i plan to share max4live patches on my website due to the many requests. but it will take some time.
These videos are great! You don't make enough of them though haha - thanks for the insight Johannes!
Amazing and eye opening on possibilities! But now I've got even more question than before
Very cool, sounds great! Inspiring live setup
Nice one team, thanks for the deep dive, strong work 🤙🏽😎🖤🕺
Amazing. Thanks for sharing ❤
Inspiring work! Thank you!
Thanks for sharing. Like it. Nice workflow.
Great live act ❤ great technical skills
Nice!! Some great custom Features you’ve made there!
Sick setup. Really good sound too. Dude really put some work into Max4Live. The midi fighter twisters are super powerful.
This is brilliant
You could make money sharing the M4L device you made to control the F1. There are a lot of forgotten F1s in closets.
Please share the link to buy the ableton script for the F1 with step recording and keyboard features.
Excellent!
this was great, thanks
Very inspirational!
Gracias por compartirlo
Links to the customized search function and Max for Live devices would be immensely helpful.
Agreed
same i'm specially thrown by the search function, i'm pretty sure he coded the mfl devices himself tho
Here is one M4L device which does Scene search via text input czcams.com/video/JY775PzTBm4/video.html
super episode ;) !
insane
what a legend
🔥🔥🔥
Please ask Johannes to share the various scripts. They'd help so many struggling to play live.
its amazing how bad ableton live is for actually playing live hey
I’m completely stunned. This could be the most flexible yet powerful setup I ever seen.
Does the single scene include the full arrangement or is everything built on the fly (as it looks)?
He produces each song then exports as stems. Each clip is a stem from a produced song. Doing it like this allows him to either play the song as it was arranged or remix it on the fly.
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ awesomeness
nice track
HOW I PLAY IS BACK?!!!
I'm so curious what device provides the MIDI clock or tempo sync or whatever for all these hardware devices. Is it just Ableton, do we think?
nice!
Some really cool concepts in that setup. Love the focus knob, will be stealing that 😂.
Do not fully understand how he goes from loops from the various stems to song structure: does he do this purely from live arrangement with the loops and additional instruments, does he trigger clips that play various parts of the arrangement, or do some loops play straight instead of looped?
In similar fashion I don't fully understand how he does song transitions (as he says he doesn't play multiple scenes): so many things are programmed into these scenes (bpm, scale, etc) that transitioning seems complicated.
I can’t figure out how the focus knob works… as one focus’ midi binging should not coexist with different focus’ bindings, since those should be mutual exclusive
the concept is to be able to decide as much as possible spontaneously. therefore i have developed different max4live additions. for song transitions, i have a so-called follow and jump function. this allows stems to follow other stems or jump between songs. since i only play one song in the video, i forgot to mention this :)
@@JohannesBrechtMusic I don't know what the hell are you talking about but I just discovered you and your music thanks to the youtube algo and it made my day. What an elegant and beautiful track that A New Day is man. I just bought it, such a treat for just 1.39€ at Beatport. ❤🔥
@@JohannesBrechtMusic you're telling me you just used 8 loops in the whole execution? I did not get how you organizdìed the midi fighters knobs too.. it seems every column is a track, is it?
Stupid question but did Johannes say that with the MFT he turned down all of his tracks except for the moog via one knob? Great track Johannes - you’re a star!!!
einfach zu krass
how do you focus en one instrument? is it a m4l device?
I have a few questions, maybe one of you can help answer. 1) how do you you set up the NI F1 as a live instrument. Johannes mentioned it's mapped to ableton as well as the analog setup. Is it sending midi notes through ableton to the analog drum machines and then ableton is capturing the notes into the track, or the audio recording? I'm trying my best to wrap my head around all of this. I get the parts about how he's using the max for live to "display stem names" I guess just the names of the files that he's put in the different slots for drum / leads / vocal etc. 2) how can you make sure that the chords played with the midi controller are in scale? 3) I want to get started in production like this, and I'm trying to decide what gear to invest in to create & Play. Leaning towards Push 3 + (2x) Xone K2 for now. alternatively, keyboard like Korg MinilogueXD + (2) Xone K2. Being that there's so much the Push can do with polyphonic notes, drum, sequencing and launching, that seems the most modular. I'm really excited about this all and it's all a bit over my head. Thanks guys!
This is incredible! How did he do the "everything else fades away" other than the Moog part at 7:15?
Probably mapping that knob to every other element as a high pass or low pass filter or even volume. Map it inversed so when You turn it up it lowers everything else. He can do that since he has every track classified into 8 stems i think, like leads, pads, music, drums 1 drums 2 idk
How did you make that "Focus" function where everything other than the one main sound is faded away when you turn the knob?
I'd map a group with everything but the lead and put a mild lopass filter on it
How did you make out of F1 a step sequencer? :)
this is my custom max4live patch
@@JohannesBrechtMusic could you please share it?
Would you mind to share it? You would make my (and surely some others) day :) @@JohannesBrechtMusic
Would love to have this I have an f1 that would like to use with ableton but doesn’t really work
pretty please share it? Thank you @@JohannesBrechtMusic
Where can I get those 4 by 4 knobs ?
I got lost plenty of times. Trying to follow what the knobs did when they were pressed.
What's the yellow button do? ;-) Great track.
Were can I find the mapping from F1? I can't find it on DJ Techtools.
Super individuelles Set up. Alle die hier nach den Scripten für ableton fragen, dass funktioniert wohl nur in dem Kontext, wie es der Künstler gebaut hat.
That’s fantastic! Feel free to reach out.
fuckin talent man
Good guys you didnt bring up the midi script he is using for the F1! Saves me another 100€ 😹
What’s the script would love to try it. I have an f1
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why is soudned so clean ?
POP-Up device pls? :)
Ah it's custom :)
DO ANDREAS BORN IN IBIZA BEST SETUPPPP
Please share f1 script . :€🎉
?? 10:31 ?
Ich hätte ja gerne mal gewusst wie er in Ableton das mit den SCALEN gebaut hat.
Day 17 of coming back in search of that f1 keyboard script
Dude… I’ll buy the F1 mapping at this point. Doesn’t look like you’re keen on sharing it 😂
Mawwwwwi wawwwei
Is that a ping pong table
like for t shirt
Cool Man But pffffff wow
Right? I was thinking ‘cool minimal setup’. Uh, looks simple, not simple
I love a delusional t-shirt. None of his gear would be possible without oil and rare earth minerals, but keep up the sloganeering and shit music.
Yeah I also cringed at the shirt. I was watching a climate protest the other day and I realised that it's likely very few of them work in fields of renewable energy, climate or environmental sustainability. I have several friends who coincidentally work for large energy suppliers and green tech at high levels and inside these large organisations who we are paying to orchestrate this transition there is no where near the passion these protesters have. It's interesting to me that people care so much about an issue or problem and will happily devote their weekends do shouting about it, yet in practice or in their regular lives do nothing about it.
This is too nerdy