Cool to see this stuff! I'd love to know more about their lighting/visuals. I was really impressed with what they'd done filming so much new stuff to tie it all together. Did they have a computer on stage running an Ableton/Logic session or something? I'd love to know how they actually collate their performance.
Yep, they have two laptops with Logic Pro X, it runs all the main stuff like playback stems and all the MIDI, both laptops synced simultaneously through Sync-Gen II hardware or something like that, both laptops generating same audio/midi signals to separate MOTU interface cards and those signals went through Radial SW8 units, that can switch the signal from one card to another. I.e. from one instance of Logic to another. Logic is also generating SMPTE signal, that goes to light and video teams to be in sync. There's also a laptop with Ableton Live to play "one shot" samples from "Drum Rack" that are triggered by Ableton Push controller and many others now. Also i guess Ableton now is loaded with a bunch of VST/AU plugins that should cover failed synth on a stage. And of course Ableton is a host for Maschine, that is loaded with a lot of loops with drums and track parts that Tom is triggering during the show. It's a big complex, difficult, archaic, but it works.
How cool is Matt Cox - so friendly and enthusiastic!
Big love to the NG crew love seeing go behind the scenes stuff like this 🫶
Insane set up!!! 🙌🙌🙌
Matt Cox sounds like a legend
Awesome video guys! Chemical Brothers always put on an insane show - great to have a little glimpse being the scenes!!
*THANK YOU* for putting this together!
Nice to see an old MS 10 in there!
Yeah!!! 😎👍
This is an insane-sounding show...
Ironically, the sound quality in this video is awful
I don't think they use all this stuff in live because the sound are very similar of the albums
but i love their sound
They can tweak and embellish the backing tracks with the gear tho. Add some spontaneity to the performance
Fucking awesome!
All time!
👏🏽
Cool to see this stuff! I'd love to know more about their lighting/visuals. I was really impressed with what they'd done filming so much new stuff to tie it all together. Did they have a computer on stage running an Ableton/Logic session or something? I'd love to know how they actually collate their performance.
Yep, they have two laptops with Logic Pro X, it runs all the main stuff like playback stems and all the MIDI, both laptops synced simultaneously through Sync-Gen II hardware or something like that, both laptops generating same audio/midi signals to separate MOTU interface cards and those signals went through Radial SW8 units, that can switch the signal from one card to another. I.e. from one instance of Logic to another.
Logic is also generating SMPTE signal, that goes to light and video teams to be in sync.
There's also a laptop with Ableton Live to play "one shot" samples from "Drum Rack" that are triggered by Ableton Push controller and many others now. Also i guess Ableton now is loaded with a bunch of VST/AU plugins that should cover failed synth on a stage.
And of course Ableton is a host for Maschine, that is loaded with a lot of loops with drums and track parts that Tom is triggering during the show.
It's a big complex, difficult, archaic, but it works.