After spending countless hours, watching tutorials, this is the most well explained breakdown of an Ableton live/hardware set, I’ve come across. Thank you Sir! This was incredibly informative! Absolutely subscribed! Can’t wait to see what you dish out next.
I'm impressed by the level of control you achieve. From outside, it could appear like you randomly play, but when hearing and seeing this, one cannot doubt anymore that you are doing what you do entirely on purpose. At the end of the day, the only "thing" that you do not control entirely, is probably ...your cat !
Nice! I have a little set which includes Microfreak and MiniLab 3 but your tips are very helpful anyway, thanks a lot. I’m really big fan of dub techno, hello from Russia :)
Sympathique cette présentation de tes instruments. Ils méritaient bien cet hommage qui te permet de faire cette si belle musique. Patrice. (Lorient-France)
Thank you Martin! I worked for such a long time with Cubase, that some possibilities come only slowly to my mind. Working with one synth, switching programs and effects on a single channel may need some work, but is definitely worth it. I never came to that "idea" before your video. One thing to add on this. Ableton can't play more than one part vertically in Session View, but creating a Instrument/Drum-Rack with different routings and sends can do that job, by simply playing Midi-Notes simulaneously to trigger/play Instruments/samples in/on dedicated zones/keys.
Alway enjoy your Videos where you talk about your Setup. Its a good inspiration for my own live set. Havent watched this one yet, but it sure is bookmarked for later!
I've only just started my musical journey and never performed live, but this information is going into my learning folder on RUclips. Many thanks for helping total newbies like me Martin, really appreciate your time and the thought and experience that goes into this. Love your music too, keep up the wonderful work ! 😀
Hi Martin and thank you for this very special learning video. It will be nice if in the future you make a video about elektron overbridge and how you have use the digitakt in live situation with ableton.
I find this sort of video absolute gold dust. Maybe not the big things but some of the little things that make everything come together. Thanks for sharing Martin.
My god, Martin, how wonderful you made this video! You not only make fantastic music, you also share the love for it and technology to make it with everyone interested, keeping "our" kind of music alive, urging more and more people to also create this wonderful style of music. Thank you so deeply, as a fan and as a colleague musician. NODO171
Martin, ganz liebe Grüße aus dem Norden. Ich mache schon mein ganzes Leben lang Musik mit Synthesizern, aber meist nur für mich selbst. Und bislang nur auf die klassische Art und Weise mit dem Aufnehmen der einzelnen Spuren einer nach der anderen in Reaper. Doch nun möchte ich mich auch in Richtung liveset bewegen, und bin zur Zeit dabei, auf Ableton umzusteigen. Dabei war Dein Video sehr sehr hilfreich, ich habe nun eine Richtlinie wie das Vorgehen dabei ist. Vielen Dank dafür, daß Du Dein Wissen so freizügig teilst, und Dir die Mühe gemacht hast, dieses fantastische Video aufzunehmen. Solltest Du einmal in die Nähe von Cuxhaven kommen, schau doch mal auf einen Kaffee vorbei. :)
Really interesting to see how one can work with effects, and automate the on/off switching of effect chains! Hadn't thought of this possibility. But one can really imagine how Ableton can improve on this though in future releases. Let's see where we are in ten years :) Thanks for an amazing walkthrough! I will especially take into consideration the hint on keeping things simple.
I am afraid that in 10 years Ableton will have much more features that nobody asked for. I am only upgrading for the performance and stability reasons and compatibility to the current CPU and OS generations.
@@MartinStuertzer I'm just starting out in Ableton, but yeah the features are quite overwhelming :) Takes a focused mind to just stick to the tools that you need.
I was wondering if this comment could be misinterpreted. I believe that good music only comes from good ideas and not from expensive gear. But I am glad that you got the joke and please enjoy the Volcas! I used to have the FM Volca in my setup.
Thank you Martin for the tips, hints and advice. This is something for me to keep in mind when I prepare to work on my future projects. Some say, "practise makes perfect." In my case it does until the knowledge you obtain from practising becomes a routine task. Which is good, (for me at least). Some of your tips doesn't apply to me for now - but I know I will be using it sooner or later and I'm glad I know where to find it :)
Wow, deine Follower sind echt aktiv ;-) Nach 3h schon fast 500 Aufrufe👍 Sehr interessant und wie immer inspirierend. Sehr hilfreich für eigene "Versuche". Vielen Dank für die vielen Tipps, Martin!
Here it is: Step 1: Open Ableton Operator. End of tutorial. Seriously: a sine wave is a very good starting point. Most of my sub basses are just sine waves. The tricky part is balancing and leveling against the drums or other bass sounds. I will take a note to talk about this in another video!
Hallo Martin, wie immer ein sehr lehrreiches Video für mich - eine Goldgrube. Ich versuche anschließend, deine Tipps in Logic pro nachzuvollziehen. Mit einiger Suche im 1600 Seiten langen Handbuch, finde ich tatsächlich dort sehr ähnliche Möglichkeiten (manchmal auch bessere ;) ) und kann sie dort umsetzen - es lohnt sich. Eine so große DAW zu verstehen, kostet sehr viel zeitlichen Aufwand, aber man bekommt viel zurück. Deine Tipps sind immer treffend, da sie zielführend sind. Schon während deiner Konzerte schaue ich wissbegierig auf deine Manipulationen an Ableton Push und deinen Kamerafokus auf die Intrumente. Mittlerweile verstehe ich deine Vorgehensweise ein wenig mehr. Obwohl ich keine Livekonzerte gebe, „dudele” ich zu Hause in meinem Studio zunehmend zufriedener und gestalte auch Aufnahmen. Vielen Dank 🤩
😺hello Martin, about your ambient /sequenced music, if you should choose only one reverb pedal to substitute your usual valhalla vst, wich one would you pick ? Big sky ( I think I've seen one in your studio) Eventide space ? NIghtsky... Thank you.
I don't have one of the Strymon reverbs. The Big Sky was from a friend of mine. I would need to test them thoroughly to give you an advise here! Probably the Big Sky or the Nightsky I guess.
Hi Martin, nice tutorial (like usual) always very helpful to me. i wondered if you know the max for live "mm.Chain Per Scene - Switch chains by launching scenes" device which is very helpful to automate effect- or even instrument chains by launching scenes or clips... At least for me it does a perfect job. Thanks and enjoy yourself...
@@MartinStuertzer Hi Martin, thanks for helping me get better at my craft. I have a question if you have the time: When determining your patches for a new piece, do you have a system or some things you think about when deciding what sounds/patches that work well with each other in the mix? Whenever I create a new patch, I spend too much valuable time trying to scroll through my patches to find the perfect fit so they work together in the mix. Help in this area would be very useful for me in my workflow. Thanks! 🙂
Thanks for the amazing tips as always, Martin! One question: what do you have in Digitakt group? Do you use Digitakt in Overbridge mode or midi sync and audio out? How are you solving Digi latency? Cheers!
I am usually using one single out for the Kickdrum and the rest in a group. Overbridge works fine (finally), as along as I don't plug in more than two Elektrons at the same time. Latency seems to be no problem for me, the compensation works like expected.
@@MartinStuertzer thanks! Latency wise it is fine here as well, but vst itself adds considerable latency (around 40ms?) unless I put plugin buffer to 64ms, which I am kind of scary to do haha
Super useful Martin! How do you sync the whole thing? It can be a challenge to sync overbridge + soft synths + hardware synths + external sequencer if you use one, not only for monitoring but also for recording in Ableton. Thanks!
Thank you! From my experience the sync and monitoring situation is much easier when I have everything connected to Ableton. The Digitakt runs through Overbridge but everything else is hooked up with good old midi through my Motu interface. Monitoring is done through Ableton and I can use a dedicated channel for the headphone on my RME interface if I want. The Apollo in the video is just a preamp in my setup.
Thank you for this! I also have a digitakt and an ob-6, and I've had issues with syncing the digitakt with ableton - I've tried both Ableton as master clock, and digitakt as master clock, but I get issues with the clock glitching and drifting a bunch. Looks like you use Ableton as the master clock, correct? Do you send the clock to the digitakt via USB, or 5pin midi from an interface? Thanks
Thanks for the Vid! How are you running midi to the hardware synths? I have a polybrute and a sub37 - if I used the native VSTs ableton would crash. How do you avoid this? What is the VST you're using for the hardware fx - i've never seen that ableton device?
Hi Martin. Thanks for the great tutorial. I just have one question, is it possible to use a preset from a synth plugin like Diva with Ableton's Fallow Action (Pgm)?
I am not sure, if I got, what you are trying to do. Switching patches with a new clip is possible, as long as the plugin understands midi program changes. If that is true you can of course use follow actions as well.
Some really useful tips and ideas for keeping everything in control. Thanks, Martin! It's really great that you share this stuff.
Thank you very much! You inspired me to create a hardware effect send / return channel.
absolutely..................so much info packed into 23:00
"these cheap synthesizers" 😂 Fascinating stuff as ever.
Literally scrolled down to comments to write something about that remark hahaha
After spending countless hours, watching tutorials, this is the most well explained breakdown of an Ableton live/hardware set, I’ve come across. Thank you Sir! This was incredibly informative! Absolutely subscribed! Can’t wait to see what you dish out next.
I'm impressed by the level of control you achieve. From outside, it could appear like you randomly play, but when hearing and seeing this, one cannot doubt anymore that you are doing what you do entirely on purpose. At the end of the day, the only "thing" that you do not control entirely, is probably ...your cat !
Nice! I have a little set which includes Microfreak and MiniLab 3 but your tips are very helpful anyway, thanks a lot. I’m really big fan of dub techno, hello from Russia :)
12:10 very goooood tip!!!!👍
Hier habe ich in 23 min mehr gelernt als in vielen Ableton Tutorials zuvor. Vielen lieben Dank Martin!
Yes 🙌 Martin you are very relaxed 😌 lol 😂 love ya peace ☮️
Thank you! I really like when you talk about your live set after the performance. Great tips!
Thank you so much, you’ve helled State Azure, imagine us😉
“Since I’m using these cheap synthesizers without a proper display” :b-shot of OB-6. This is pure comedy gold. 😂
Thanks for sharing. This is invaluable.
Yes. Yes. Yes. Great advice that should be repeated from time to time. I liked it.
💯👍@ Martin and Neptun!
Very much appreciated. I create one liveset every week and I know that practice is the key (although I hardly do any practice runs).
Sympathique cette présentation de tes instruments. Ils méritaient bien cet hommage qui te permet de faire cette si belle musique. Patrice. (Lorient-France)
Thanks for sharing all these very valuable tips!
Thank you Martin! I worked for such a long time with Cubase, that some possibilities come only slowly to my mind. Working with one synth, switching programs and effects on a single channel may need some work, but is definitely worth it. I never came to that "idea" before your video. One thing to add on this. Ableton can't play more than one part vertically in Session View, but creating a Instrument/Drum-Rack with different routings and sends can do that job, by simply playing Midi-Notes simulaneously to trigger/play Instruments/samples in/on dedicated zones/keys.
Alway enjoy your Videos where you talk about your Setup. Its a good inspiration for my own live set. Havent watched this one yet, but it sure is bookmarked for later!
Thanks for this, Martin. Big fan.
Pure gold here! Thx for doing this ❤!
I've only just started my musical journey and never performed live, but this information is going into my learning folder on RUclips. Many thanks for helping total newbies like me Martin, really appreciate your time and the thought and experience that goes into this. Love your music too, keep up the wonderful work ! 😀
Hi Martin and thank you for this very special learning video. It will be nice if in the future you make a video about elektron overbridge and how you have use the digitakt in live situation with ableton.
Wow this is pure gold. Thank you so much for doing this! Next, tell us how you can afford all this gear 😉
Dear Martin, thank you for explaining your setup in such detail, really appreciste your time an effort going into the "walktrough" video series.
The best piece of advice for Ableton users 😀. Thank you Martin.
Thank you!
Brilliant tips, thank you so much
There are some very valuable tips in this one! Thanks Martin!
Excellent thank you for sharing Martin
Martinnnnn cheers from Berlin, I like your video°°
Thank you for this informative video! Very interesting to have a glimpse inside the internal workings of your music =)
I find this sort of video absolute gold dust. Maybe not the big things but some of the little things that make everything come together. Thanks for sharing Martin.
Great Martin, Thanks!
My god, Martin, how wonderful you made this video! You not only make fantastic music, you also share the love for it and technology to make it with everyone interested, keeping "our" kind of music alive, urging more and more people to also create this wonderful style of music. Thank you so deeply, as a fan and as a colleague musician. NODO171
Thank you so much for these tutorials they are so helpfull
Martin, ganz liebe Grüße aus dem Norden. Ich mache schon mein ganzes Leben lang Musik mit Synthesizern, aber meist nur für mich selbst. Und bislang nur auf die klassische Art und Weise mit dem Aufnehmen der einzelnen Spuren einer nach der anderen in Reaper. Doch nun möchte ich mich auch in Richtung liveset bewegen, und bin zur Zeit dabei, auf Ableton umzusteigen. Dabei war Dein Video sehr sehr hilfreich, ich habe nun eine Richtlinie wie das Vorgehen dabei ist. Vielen Dank dafür, daß Du Dein Wissen so freizügig teilst, und Dir die Mühe gemacht hast, dieses fantastische Video aufzunehmen.
Solltest Du einmal in die Nähe von Cuxhaven kommen, schau doch mal auf einen Kaffee vorbei. :)
Danke Joachim für die netten Worte und viel Freude beim Musizieren!
Nice gear nice music nice guy 😁👍👍
Thanks Martin 🙏
Thanks man, you are really helping us a lot here. Cheers from Madrid.
Thank you!
Really interesting to see how one can work with effects, and automate the on/off switching of effect chains! Hadn't thought of this possibility. But one can really imagine how Ableton can improve on this though in future releases. Let's see where we are in ten years :) Thanks for an amazing walkthrough! I will especially take into consideration the hint on keeping things simple.
I am afraid that in 10 years Ableton will have much more features that nobody asked for. I am only upgrading for the performance and stability reasons and compatibility to the current CPU and OS generations.
@@MartinStuertzer I'm just starting out in Ableton, but yeah the features are quite overwhelming :) Takes a focused mind to just stick to the tools that you need.
Keep them coming man, useful video!
Thank you!
Thank you for your inspiration 🙏
Nice lesson. Thank you. Another, which is the most important thing: FOCUS 👍
thank you for the good tips.
Danke, dass du deine Gedanken und Erfahrungen mit uns teilst, Martin 🙏🏻
Ich danke dir!
Thx Martin ♡
Great tips - thanks!
I am love your music!
Would love to see how you manage latency issues when routing hardware (OB-6 etc) back into Ableton with lots of effects (and even external effects)
My idea is to use an audio interface and connect everything to it directly. The latency in Ableton is 128 samples and I have no trouble with it.
Great tips and cool to see how you work, thanks!
Thank you so much !
Great tut again
Amazing tips and workflow, and very nice music. Thanks for sharing.
Very much thanks for this tutorial. Very helpful 👍
My pleasure!
Thanks so much for showing your liveset. I've been wanting to do something for a while but it always overwhelms me. You've given some great insight!
Thank you! Just start with a few instruments, there is no need to have such an excessive setup like I do. :)
adding this to my essential watch playlist...
thank you Martin 👍
Fantastic! Thank you for this. Very well explained
BRILLIANT Martin!!!!!!!!!
Always love listening to your live sets.... But I always pay close attention to your live performance, setup and sound design videos. More please 👏👏👏
Always learn something from your walkthroughs so do keep them coming. Thank you for sharing your working process and thoughts.
Great video - thanks 💪🏻👍🏻
Nice song fam! Respect
This is so timely for me. Thank you.
Ein Meister seiner Zunft
Can you make a video on how to set the latency compensation for each external device from scratch?
Thank you so much for this clear and nice sharing.
Thanks man for the sharing info, and playing dub techno
Love this funny joke @12:34 : "...'cause i'm only using these cheap synthesizers." while I'm sitting next to my Volcas!! 😂😄
With ❤from Austria
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I was wondering if this comment could be misinterpreted. I believe that good music only comes from good ideas and not from expensive gear. But I am glad that you got the joke and please enjoy the Volcas! I used to have the FM Volca in my setup.
Thank you for taking the time to share these insights on how you bring your music to life - a fascinating engagement!
Thank you, I am glad that you find it interesting to watch!
Super helpful Martin. Thank you!
Hi Martin, this is so helpful, eye-opening and inspiring. Thank you. I always listen to your music on Spotify when I am on long drives.
I have many synths but no car that is able to play Spotify. Enjoy the ride and the music!
Thank you so much for this awesome video!
Thank you Martin for the tips, hints and advice.
This is something for me to keep in mind when I prepare to work on my future projects.
Some say, "practise makes perfect." In my case it does until the knowledge you obtain from practising becomes a routine task. Which is good, (for me at least).
Some of your tips doesn't apply to me for now - but I know I will be using it sooner or later and I'm glad I know where to find it :)
Thanks a lot! Of course everyone needs to develop their own concept of working.
thank you,love your albums soo much 🥰 can you please share some of your favorite artists?
Ich schaue Dir schon länger zu...da ich nun auch endlich nen Account und Kanal habe kann ich Dich auch endlich abonieren :-) Großartig wie immer!
Juchu!
Can you show us how you deal with audio latency settings for hardware?
That was excellent - thanks Martin
Wow, deine Follower sind echt aktiv ;-) Nach 3h schon fast 500 Aufrufe👍
Sehr interessant und wie immer inspirierend. Sehr hilfreich für eigene "Versuche". Vielen Dank für die vielen Tipps, Martin!
Very interesting vid, Martin !
Kiss to Neptun !
😽
Thanks Martin you gave me strength.Big fan 🙏.
Can I kindly request from you a short tutorial about design a sub bass and playing it .
Here it is: Step 1: Open Ableton Operator. End of tutorial. Seriously: a sine wave is a very good starting point. Most of my sub basses are just sine waves. The tricky part is balancing and leveling against the drums or other bass sounds. I will take a note to talk about this in another video!
@@MartinStuertzer Thanks for the reply I appreciated 🙏🙏👍👍
Wow, this is excellent, I;m going to try to replicate what you're doing in Bitwig (if possible). Fantastic video!
I have a similar studio, similar workflow and 2 cats yet I don't sound nearly as good as you... Can I ask what tea you usually drink? :)
Hallo Martin,
wie immer ein sehr lehrreiches Video für mich - eine Goldgrube.
Ich versuche anschließend, deine Tipps in Logic pro nachzuvollziehen. Mit einiger Suche im 1600 Seiten langen Handbuch, finde ich tatsächlich dort sehr ähnliche Möglichkeiten (manchmal auch bessere ;) ) und kann sie dort umsetzen - es lohnt sich. Eine so große DAW zu verstehen, kostet sehr viel zeitlichen Aufwand, aber man bekommt viel zurück.
Deine Tipps sind immer treffend, da sie zielführend sind. Schon während deiner Konzerte schaue ich wissbegierig auf deine Manipulationen an Ableton Push und deinen Kamerafokus auf die Intrumente. Mittlerweile verstehe ich deine Vorgehensweise ein wenig mehr. Obwohl ich keine Livekonzerte gebe, „dudele” ich zu Hause in meinem Studio zunehmend zufriedener und gestalte auch Aufnahmen. Vielen Dank 🤩
Hallo Herwig, vielen Dank für die freundlichen Worte!
Track 3 war der Hammer in dem Set ... gibts das als Album/EP irgendwann? Sehr geile Tips und Einblicke in dein Setup, danke dafür
😺hello Martin, about your ambient /sequenced music,
if you should choose only one reverb pedal to substitute your usual valhalla vst, wich one would you pick ? Big sky ( I think I've seen one in your studio) Eventide space ? NIghtsky...
Thank you.
I don't have one of the Strymon reverbs. The Big Sky was from a friend of mine. I would need to test them thoroughly to give you an advise here! Probably the Big Sky or the Nightsky I guess.
Hi Martin, nice tutorial (like usual) always very helpful to me. i wondered if you know the max for live "mm.Chain Per Scene - Switch chains by launching scenes" device which is very helpful to automate effect- or even instrument chains by launching scenes or clips... At least for me it does a perfect job. Thanks and enjoy yourself...
Hi! There is actually a Max device that does that but it was sort of buggy and I can't have that in my live.
I dont use a DAW but thank you for some valuable tips that translate to a stricktly hardware set up (A4 MK2 + a few hardware synths).
I was using setups without the computer as well and try to have a similar approach there as well.The A4 is a fantastic synth, I should use it more.
@@MartinStuertzer Hi Martin, thanks for helping me get better at my craft. I have a question if you have the time: When determining your patches for a new piece, do you have a system or some things you think about when deciding what sounds/patches that work well with each other in the mix? Whenever I create a new patch, I spend too much valuable time trying to scroll through my patches to find the perfect fit so they work together in the mix. Help in this area would be very useful for me in my workflow. Thanks! 🙂
Your music is next level sir. Are your RUclips sets available to listen to on soundcloud or the equivalent? Great vid btw
nice to see how this all works out. sadly I do not use ableton ...but I do not play live either :)
Nice, like more of it!
Gruß aus HH
Thanks for the amazing tips as always, Martin! One question: what do you have in Digitakt group? Do you use Digitakt in Overbridge mode or midi sync and audio out? How are you solving Digi latency? Cheers!
I am usually using one single out for the Kickdrum and the rest in a group. Overbridge works fine (finally), as along as I don't plug in more than two Elektrons at the same time. Latency seems to be no problem for me, the compensation works like expected.
@@MartinStuertzer thanks!
Latency wise it is fine here as well, but vst itself adds considerable latency (around 40ms?) unless I put plugin buffer to 64ms, which I am kind of scary to do haha
Super useful Martin! How do you sync the whole thing? It can be a challenge to sync overbridge + soft synths + hardware synths + external sequencer if you use one, not only for monitoring but also for recording in Ableton. Thanks!
Thank you! From my experience the sync and monitoring situation is much easier when I have everything connected to Ableton. The Digitakt runs through Overbridge but everything else is hooked up with good old midi through my Motu interface. Monitoring is done through Ableton and I can use a dedicated channel for the headphone on my RME interface if I want. The Apollo in the video is just a preamp in my setup.
Did I understand correctly that you use one preset on the Prophet, and each midi track gives a different sound?
Thank you for this! I also have a digitakt and an ob-6, and I've had issues with syncing the digitakt with ableton - I've tried both Ableton as master clock, and digitakt as master clock, but I get issues with the clock glitching and drifting a bunch. Looks like you use Ableton as the master clock, correct? Do you send the clock to the digitakt via USB, or 5pin midi from an interface?
Thanks
Great video and loving your work. Only recently subscribed and loving your previous videos too.
What camera/s are you using please for this video?
Thanks for the Vid! How are you running midi to the hardware synths? I have a polybrute and a sub37 - if I used the native VSTs ableton would crash. How do you avoid this? What is the VST you're using for the hardware fx - i've never seen that ableton device?
I answered the 2nd question - looks like an external audio fx plugin?
Hi, thank you for sharing. How do you keep the eventide H9 external effect in sync. Mine isn’t syncing with the music?
16:02 I would love to know how you made that bass patch?
Hi Martin. Thanks for the great tutorial. I just have one question, is it possible to use a preset from a synth plugin like Diva with Ableton's Fallow Action (Pgm)?
I am not sure, if I got, what you are trying to do. Switching patches with a new clip is possible, as long as the plugin understands midi program changes. If that is true you can of course use follow actions as well.