Resilience Live Set : How I Patch My System For Improvising Live Techno
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Here's the link to the Resilience live set : • Résilience invite dc11
If you haven't watched it yet, it makes sense to watch it first. Maybe.
I though it would be interesting to break down the process of building the Resilience live set with my modular and the Alphabase. I set out to do it fully improvised. I've toyed with the idea of using some samples but it's just not how I wanted to do things, and the little I've tried felt more complicated than necessary without giving me much leeway really. I've built my system towards improvisation, so why deviate from the goal at the last minute. In a way, improvising is simpler, and freeing; you don't have to stick to anything, you're making things up as you go. Thats also the biggest downside : what if nothing good comes out ? That's where having a strong basis like the Alphabase comes into play. I did not program all the drums on the fly, but had a fairly complete pattern ready to go with three different kits to tweak; enough to take a few seconds to breathe and find something new on the modular. I played the system a lot the weeks coming up to the recording date trying to find a patch simple yet flexible enough, forcing myself to continue when I felt I was out of ideas after 30min etc... It's good training and also... I don't believe there's any other way. Building "presets" in your head, having rough ideas of what can work and what doesn't, rough ideas of the different moods and energy levels you want to reach etc...
Anyway... I hope you'll find this interesting and I hope you enjoyed the Resilience video. I sure loved doing it even if it was a bit stressful at times, and I am very proud of the result. The team did a fantastic work and that's an honour to be featured in such a nice looking video.
0:14 - Alphabase
16:00 - Syncing the drum machine to the modular
17:49 - Modular
27:47 - Mini live set with explanations
41:12 - Conclusion
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Loved it! Great video as always. Can't believe I haven't tried Odessa into the Bark Filter yet. Makes so much sense! Thank you for the great tips! :)
they make a great pair !
Really a pleasure to watch this, especially when you temporarily forget you're not just supposed to be jamming. Setup is apparently simply too inspiring!
Very jam friendly ! That was the idea :)
Amazing breakdown, thanks for your insight. I love your attitude towards producing, no overthinking, no overcomplicating things, what sounds good sounds good, period. It is inspiring and motivating !
Clever ways to use the Jomox machine! I used an older Airbase99 for a while with a TR-626 as a combo in much of the same method with great results. I also love the sound you're getting into during your time on this planet.
Thank you Owen ! In intend to keep making similar sounds 👽
Well this 48 (!!) minute video was defiantly worth the wait!
hehe yeah there are a lot of things to mention...
Love how solid and well thought ur set up feels, it really seems like you play ur own build instrument and the sound u make is crazy good!!
Thank you :)
Helpful and useful as always. Thank you for posting.
Thank you :)
Now that I know I can keep the same pattern through different kits, there is no way I’m not buying the Alpha Base.
Ils pourraient carrément te payer ! Merci ❤️
You can do the same with the analog rytm.
thanks a lot! i really loved your resilence set, this type of mental tekno need more visibility, it's so pure ,i really fall in love your feedback loops!!
Thanks !
Excellent demo and setup!
Thank you !
Fantastic breakdown! Thanks for this.
you're welcome, thanks for watching :)
that FM synth needs more love, it's wild!
I know ! Need to dedicate a bit more time to this and the Mbrane
Very good the Idea with 1 pattern and 3 different but similar Kits. I use the Alpha Base with the Octatrack MK2 and a Bassline from Erica. But no Modular.
Interesting and fantastic sounding patch. Very generous of you to share your setup but equally your ideas/approach/thoughts cheers.
Thank you for watching :)
Nice insight to your live rig 👍 I find the FM synth to be capable of unleashing great bass and percussive sounds
Dinguerie. Hyper intéressant d'avoir tous les détails et tout
Merci !
nice stuff again. thanks for the thoughtful explanations and awsome defined sound!
you're welcome, glad you enjoyed it
15:00 you are suggesting to change to a channel you don't use before muting, to avoid making a mistake while muting. I recommend that you push the BPM/Midi button before you mute, you achieve the same thing this way
good tip, thank you !
Love stuff like this man, thanks!
Thank you!
Enjoyed the Live Set a lot! Love your music and even more that you share your insides and techniques!
I got fixed by the Verbos Hype at Superbooth 2021 and thereupon found your channel. Have been watching all your videos since then; for the music and your masterful skills!
Greetings from Berlin!
Thanks a lot ! Glad you found the content here to be helpful :)
Merci pour cette belle démo!! J'ai écouté ce que tu fais sur Bandcamp, c'est excellent!!
Merci !
Wow what an awesome playground! Would love to play with it!
it is fun :)
Fantastic video, very insightful. Merci pour le “candid” video. Great performance as well. I’ve heard great things about the Overstayer.
Thank you ! The Overstayer is an amazing bit of kit. Worth every cent.
@@LucasMarchal i will keep that in mind 😊
Good job!! Putting the Alpha Base to good use :D
Thanks !
excellent man!!! def picking up a few things here from sequencing to improv ideas and stretching your sounds.
Glad you found it inspiring :)
Gives me a lot inspiration 🖤🔥
That's the idea :)
Merci beaucoup! Very inspirational video :D
Thanks !
Great video and workflow. Loved the jam at the end. I’d love to hear more how you do your rumble kick.
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Thank you ! I don't really do "rumble" kicks, it's just a kick. The key is finding a good interaction with other elements, be it toms, a bass line etc... It's hard !
Ahh I dig it. It’s an illusion then. That more or less how I’ve been doing it. Thanks.
@@potsandjacks I've dabbled with reverberated kicks but not much.
this, Sir, is stellar! :)
Thank you for watching !
Saw your Resilience set and it was great, as expected. Saw you be distracted a few times by that drone buzzing around you all the time - I assume it was a bit annoying 😅
It wasn't too annoying, and you have to admit it makes for nice shots !
@@LucasMarchal It does!
Very nice! Love the setup that you've been using lately!
Thanks! It's a lot of fun
you should experiment with the mbrane channel really, solid potential there!
Yeah I know ! Gotta take a few hours to explore it one of these days.
it seems like I'm on a spaceshipI love it 🎵
Good travels ;)
I love your sound
Thank you !
Great video, just bought one of these as sort of Tanzmaus replacement. I love Tanz but it's build quality is failing me in live situations. Hope this will deliver that live hands on thing
It's pretty hands on I think ! lots of knobs :) Also very nice build quality.
Super useful as always! :)
Thank you mate :)
Thanks, really nice!
Thank you !
Love it.
You’re turning your CO into a right rubber box (in the video after around 32:00) … I have never heard my CO sound like that - what’s your magic sauce?
Thanks ! It's pretty easy, just frequency modulate the right osc with the left osc at lfo speed, saw wave works nicely. find the frequencies/mod index that you like and open you VCA fully, adjust filter/res to taste. Also the phaser here has a strong impact on the sound. Check my demo of the Complex Oscillator, I think I show a similar sound in a bit more details.
is that you, Luke Slater? Amazing and useful.
Luke Slater is british, isn't he? I hear a french accent in here...
@@2point7182818284590 Definitely British, also definitely a legend, while I am a french nobody ;)
Hehe not quite... Glad you enjoyed the video !
@@LucasMarchal Listening again I thought about Oscar Mulero sets and PoleGroup style Techno
@@YaLu69 well that's very kind, both artists/groups I follow closely :)
Awesome video. Thanks! I’m sure you’ve been asked this before, but what are the cases you have your modules in please?
It's a MDLR Performer case. The case is fine and reliable but I would not recommend MDLR. Not a reliable person/company in my experience.
@@LucasMarchal Thank you for the honest feedback.
Hello Lucas! We are Alphabase brothers and I really admire your work! Are you from Portugal? Do you have a tip about places or people I can meet to show my work? I'm arriving in December in Porto. :)
Hey, I've been to Portugal once 15years ago so that's the extent of my knowledge of the country. If you're ever in Paris I can give you some tips though :)
Great content thanks 🙏🏻
thank you for watching :)
Do you use A Soundcard or A mixer to get your sound in to ableton? i have A tascam model 24 now But thinking about Switch to a soundcard for better soundquality, whats your thoughts? Love your Music
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Hi, amazing explanation, clean workflow and super jam at the end!
What case are you using for your eurorack sytem? Looks ace!
Thanks a lot ! Glad you liked it :) The case is an MDLR Performance case
@@LucasMarchal thank you!
Great Video!
i think you just sell me the Alpha base, i can do it now with eurorack but i want have just more fun :)
nice video lucas! weird question: which stand model you using for the alpha base?
Ahah I've been asked quite a few times. It's a magma verktor laptop stand.
at 28:08, really love the bass sound, is that just low tom send to some delay? it comes so good with the kick. really want to know how you made it.
i only have a guitar here so i can't really try this, but i still enjoyed the video ☕
Gotta come visit and play with all those knobs :)
@@LucasMarchal yaa let's do soon !
What audio interface are you using? I see you record all AB outputs seperately. Is it Motu 24ai or 16A?
yep it's the 16a, very happy with it. Rock solid. I have a Fireface UC as well in adat for extra in/out, midi, mix pre etc...
@@LucasMarchal Thanks for the reply, I saw the interface type in one of your other videos. I've got a 828es and 2 8a, connected with a avb hub, I've got to much gear:) I love the motu stuff, it just works. I'm thinking of getting a 16a or 24ai to get these separate outputs tracked too.
Hi Lucas, apologies if you've said this in the video and I missed it but what are you using to mix the individual outs on the Alpha Base when playing live?
For this livestream it was a Mackie 16 channel mixer, but I've never brought the Alphabase again for playing live, I use an Octatrack now, much more convenient.
Je suis impressionné par le son hyper large de l'Alpha Base, notamment sur le pattern avec le deuxième kit vers le début de la vidéo. Est-ce que c'est le son pur de l'Alpha base avec la réverbe interne ou bien est-ce qu'il y a d'autres effets externes à ce moment-là (autre que l'El Capistan sur le tom, si j'ai bien compris) ? Peut-être que tu le précises plus loin, il faudra que je prenne le temps de tout regarder en entier (j'ai eu un peu la flemme pour l'instant parce que le modulaire c'est pas trop mon truc et je n'y comprends rien en général...)
Hello ! Pourtant tout est quasi en mono, à part un peu de reverb sur les hats je pense et un peu de delay sur les toms (les deux fx sont en stéréo). Je n'ai pas utilisé les effets internes, pourtant ils sont plutôt corrects.
@@LucasMarchal Merci pour ta réponse ! Ce sont peut-être ces deux légers effets stéréo qui me donnent cette impression d'"immensité", parfois dans un mix avec tous les instruments au milieu il suffit d'en panoramiser un seul pour avoir le maximum d'effet plutôt que de tout panoramiser (leçon que j'ai apprise du channel RUclips "House of Kush"). Ou alors c'est simplement le son massif de l'Alpha Base qui me fait cet effet, haha! Au passage, tes vidéos où figurent l'Alpha Base et ton set Resilience sont parmi les rares exemples d'utilisation de cette BAR que j'aie trouvés convainquants et qui arrivent à en faire ressortir les qualités dans un contexte musical avec d'autres synthés. Je suis fasciné par le son de cette machine et régulièrement tenté de m'en procurer une, ce qui me retient c'est que j'ignore si elle pourra convenir dans mon style (EBM, Darkwave, Coldwave), où typiquement on a souvent plutôt besoin d'un kick très sec genre TR-707. Y a pas, faut que je m'en achète une pour voir par moi-même ce que ça donne :D Au pire, je serai obligé de démarrer un projet parallèle dub techno...
Can you please provide the modular synths in that case, I would like to build something similar
It's mostly verbos, they do pre-configured systems !
@@LucasMarchal Thankyou!
Hi I saw on your patreon that you offer lesson for modular synthesis. Would you be able to teach VCVrack if im using that? Thanks
Hi, yeah definitely, the principles are the same. Contact me via instagram or on Patreon directly. Cheers !
Outstanding sound. Is it possible to make kick rumble inside the alpha base?
Hum not really with the reverb/saturation/compression thing, but you can emulate some sort of rumble with toms or other percs.
awsome vid! how do you mix your voices and drums? do you have otb mixer for routing into the fx or how you handle this?
For this live stream I had a 16 channel mixer with two fx pedals as sends, check the video in the link :)
@@LucasMarchal lovely! And how do you handle that in the studio?
@@vanluud I mix everything in Ableton with a motu 16a interface. When I play live I usually use the same DJ mixer the DJs use, usually a Xone 92, but it's not the same setup. I have a separate vid about that if you're interested :)
Thanks alot for the fast reply! You are rockin it! Super educational vids and insane quality of profuctions! Keep up the good work!
I wish there was a way to mix in the volume of noise with the sample, more often than not it totally overpower it, makes me use it less
I agree, but then you can really shape it nicely with the filters and LFO. But it would be even more powerful if you could just layer that with the original sample.
Hello! Have you ever noticed that the Scan Pan is a rather noisy mixer?
Or there is a problem with mine?(:
I don't think it's inherently noisy but it packs a lot of gain, unity is a 9 o' clock. Beyond that you're boosting the levels which can sound amazing but also bring up the noise present in your system :)
@@LucasMarchal thanks.
There are problems with basically all Verbos modules. Which makes it even more absurd how expensive they are and the hype that he has managed to build with the cooler than thou Brooklyn-Berlin crowd. A tech person who knows what they're talking about once said the errors are not build errors, but actually design errors in the circuits themselves, which is indeed, a big problem, especially compared to all the great modular companies out there now run by engineers with a strong electrical background and decades of building and repair experience.
@@NickHchaos if you say so mate.
@@LucasMarchal i do say so and many people on modwiggler have weighed in over the years at finding multiple hardware problems with their verbos modules..I owned a number since 6+ years ago and enjoyed them; but consistently noticed these flaws, which I have never experienced across many modules like AJH, ACL, L-1. It’s quite weird, and for the continual number of people that have threads or comments about “my Verbos module does X when Y..is this normal? Is something broken?” Really not right, especially at those prices. Lots and lots of instances of poor support too. I’m glad if you haven’t experienced any of these, but it’s well documented, buyers beware!
Hello, I notice you have 3 pedals on the top? How you use them, like an effect chain after audio come from modular case?
they are on the FX sends of my ableton session, like in a mixer, so I can send any sound to any pedal, in any amount. Very flexible.
@@LucasMarchal understand！thanks you so much! And keep waiting for your new video 😀
Which 16 channel maxer did they rent you? Was is a Mackie? Mixers are really the annoying part of a live setup unless you have a stage crew.
Yeah a 1604. Does the job.Most venues will have a Xone DJ mixer so if you can limit yourself to 2/3 stereo channels then you'll be fine. Mixers are impossible to carry around.
@@LucasMarchal At one point I had a Roland MX-1. Easy to carry around but sounds like sh*t and only has four analogue input channels.
Niiiiice!
Thanks !
Hi! is your overstayer always on the master bus, also when playing live?
It is set up as an insert in Ableton so I can use it on the master but also on any channels/groups/bus I want. Super flexible. I don't bring it when playing live, except the one time for the Resilience live stream because I had some time to set up and a big van to put everything. Otherwise it's too big/fragile.
Alpha base is great i own 1 👍🏻
Superb drum machine !
May I know what type of headphones are you using?
Audeze LCD2C, love them ! The X are supposed to be more neutral, but they are also much more expensive.
Is the Alpha better than the 2010 MFB Tanzbar ?
No idea, I've never had that one. Better is extremely relative when it comes to drum machines
Brother any possible on Jomox create a rumble kick
Just by itself I'd say no... but you can do it if you combine a kick and a tom or a kick and Mbrane maybe... Usually these "rumble kicks" are very processing intensive so you kinda need a DAW.
@@LucasMarchal Thanks alot man i m still try to compare between Rytm and Jomox the versitile of maschine and possibilities.
Salut merci pour cette vidéo, ton ordi a t il une fonction ? Merci
Oui il me sert de mixer et pour tout enregistrer.
@@LucasMarchal mix dj ?
@@LaFleurLabs non pour la production
had a joemox 999 for a week , anyway to speed up the encoders ? seems to be set to fine adjust .
don't think so
@@LucasMarchal oh bum
Salut Lucas, je souhaiterais retrouver tous tes modules sur #mirack, pour les patcher de la même manière, crois-tu que ce soit possible ?
Je ne connais pas du tout; mais tu devrais pouvoir retrouver le même genre de modules, un oscillateur complexe, un sequencer 8 pas, des filtres, des enveloppes etc... à toi d'experimenter :)
Yess, du coup j'ai commencé :p je vais checker Verbos pour tenter de reformer +/- ton modulaire (un schématique m'aurait aidé, mais je prends le challenge:)
@@FreddyVortex Tiens le modulargrid si ça peut t'aider : cdn.modulargrid.net/img/racks/modulargrid_1601688.jpg?1633511749
🙏🙏🙏 je te tiendrai au jus ici
But - where’s the mixer?! 😮
I mix in Ableton, the mixer was only rented for the live set.
@@LucasMarchal I still don’t get the signal flow! 🥲 Do you use a patch bay?! 🤔
Love your channel !! We want to host you on our channel, how can we contact you ? Thanks :-)
you can send me a message on insta :)
DO YOU SPEAK FRENCH?
oui oui :)