#Jamuary2025

My submission for Day 25 of Jamuary 2025. Chill live-looped house music.
Audio-only version available at: / 8zdhmpe9ydfzuggh7
This was played using hardware synthesizers together with Ableton Live. All sequences are played in live with the exception of the drum patterns which were prepared in advance.
A rough breakdown of what gear is used and how:
Roland JP-8080 -- Pad
Roland JP-8000 -- The plucked chords and a controller for the JP-8080
Behringer Model D -- Bass synth
Behringer Neutron -- Arpeggiated plucks
Roland Fantom XR -- Various other synth sounds
Yamaha YPG-625 -- Controller for Ableton Live Suite's stock Grand Piano instrument.
Roland TR-8 -- Used as a MIDI controller. The faders control the volume of the individual drum tracks, and the knobs do... a whole bunch of things but mainly control effects within Ableton. No sound is coming from the TR-8
Ableton Push 3 -- For launching clips (running in controller mode)
Chauvet Gigbar 2 -- Lights (Controlled using an android tablet just out of frame below the TR-8)
#jamuary #synthesizer #ableton #push3 #livelooping #behringermodeld #behringerneutron #jp8000 #jp8080

[@Jux925]

Fantastic performance! So, Abelton Push 3 is doing this live-looping thing, right? There is no PC involved, right?

[@302_Dave]

Thanks! In pretty much all of the streams and videos I have online, I'm using Push 3 connected to a computer running Ableton Live. I have the standalone-capable Push 3, and the Ableton project I'm using is compatible with it, so in theory, I could disconnect the Push from the computer and move some wires around and then play the exact same thing thing in the same way. In practice though, when I've tested this before, my setup runs up against the limits of the Push 3 CPU, so when I'm jamming in my home studio and the computer is right there anyway, I run Ableton on the computer to take advantage of the extra processing power.
Also, technically, the lights are being controlled by a VST running inside of Ableton Live, so I would need to rework my light controls if I were to use standalone mode, but that's not vital to be able to play, and that's the only VST I'm using.
(... Going totally into the weeds here, but actually, I have a suspicion that the CPU issues I saw when trying this on Standalone mode could potentially be caused by a Max for Live device that isn't optimized for the current version of Live. The reason I think this is that the version of Live released last spring made a change to the Push display driver that slowed it down for me to the point where I had to roll back to a previous version. Maybe if I rip whatever clashes with the push display out of my project, it will run smoothly, but I haven't had time to try.)

[@Jux925]

@@302_Dave ok, I am not Ableton user and would like to have my computer screen switched off when I am jamming :)