Ben Böhmer: How To Play Live with Ableton | Setup Explained Masterclass

uh i basically made music all of my life i started quite early with playing the piano but to always set a thing for electronic sounds and i wanted to bring all these things to my live shows and i actually don't know how to play dj sets i never learned that i want to play my own music and let the music speak hi my name is ben burma and i'm going to show you how i play live but first what is playing live it's a method to rearrange and recreate my own music i'm using a digital and analog setup to affect all these little elements of my tracks so this gives me the possibility to react more the moment to create something new something special for the night so let me show you what that means i have all parts of the track fleetering in front of me and yeah let's have a look i have the pads here the hi-hats the clap some other pads the bass drum and the kick some other loops here and the cinti [Music] yeah let's have a look into a button i will show you all the tools in detail but let's first dive into avid live so each channel has one element of the track as you can see here is the bass drum i'm going to play that or hear the the clap and each scene is one part of the track so i have the intro here i have the drop here for example the outer and yeah so i can go step by step through all these parts and elements to create the track i also have the diva here where i place some live melodies or i just send some melodies into the synthesizer i'm going to explain that later and i also have a group to make transitions and another group for some drums drum samples i like to use but i'm going to explain that later i really love to use about life as it's a very intuitive way to to prepare a live set everything live what was actually made to to create live sets and then this session view you can create everything vertically and you have a great matrix to to to have a look on everything what is going on there so it's pretty pretty comfortable to have all these different parts in front of me for example a dj has one fire and i can play with all these things separately on each channel are some effects i don't go crazy with effects for example on the bass drum here are here's a low cut or high cut which sounds like that and for the bass i have also looked at for this bass line it's also pretty nice to add a delay which i have here and yeah for the theme i have pretty much the same also some delays and reverbs here my analog reverb the event reverb i'm going to explain that later yeah these are the effects i'm using on each channel but i really love to work with scent effects for example i have a really long reverb tail here with a decay time of uh seven seconds and a little separation has a really really nice reverb tail and it's also nice to make some transitions and big buildups i like when it's really really really long also some delays and the even tight reverb [Applause] on the second scent i'm using just a simple ping-pong delay and on the third cent i'm working with the even tight space on my master i just have an equalizer to make some low cuts i have a glue compressor to make it more tight and a limiter as i don't master my tracks i needed to make a little master change to make everything more tight i also play with the diva this is my synthesizer where i play melodies or i just send melodies inside here you can see the midi notes and to make it more tight i also have a compressor here a little delay and a sidechain which is sidechained to the kick here i have a group a transition group i'm gonna explain that later but it helps to make easy transitions in this group i have some signature loops which i'm controlling with the archive medium mix so here are basically just some loops [Applause] it's also nice to make something unique and to make new buildups on the left i'm having a midi track and there's a small plugin called follow scene it's for max for life and it helps to make transitions so basically um i'm creating a midi clip and the length of the midi clip decides how long the scene should be so the idea behind that that this is just a follow action you know that from the scenes here i can show it here here's some follow actions it says for example after four bars the next scene is going to be played and this is um the same thing with the follow scene but just for the scene so i can go step by step through all these parts through all these elements to create my tracks and as i don't want to make everything with the mouse i'm using this setup so with these three controllers i can control the session view these are three allen and heath zone k2 controllers and i linked them so i have 12 channels in total and i i had to map them which is pretty annoying but it works and it's pretty chaotic i'm going to show you what that means if you open the midi control area you can just control a fader to one parameter for example you just need to click this fader and move this channel here so it's already linked and i did that for all those little parameters um so i have the session view here i have my bass drum here the bass line claps hi-hats vocals i can control the diva here the transition group the master it makes it pretty easy to control every part of my track enabled life i really really like it because there are long faders and pretty nice knobs but no endless lobs which i don't like because i can see that they're at 100 here which is good especially when it's dark like in clubs it's difficult to see that and i can do that here let's move forward with my keys i'm using the cork mini look xd but i'm not playing with the analog synthesis i'm playing with the diva from uh-e as i produce almost every electronic sound in my productions with the vst diva it was kind of obvious to me to play with that sound life so i basically just use it as a midi controller i know there are cheaper ones but i really like the layout of the synthesizer and the knobs are great and you even have all those names here cutoffs lfo rate so it's actually kind of nice to have a digital synth completely mapped on that thing so for example i have a cutoff here some white noise the lfos and yeah it's pretty fun to play with that you just have to midi map that i would have showed you how that works with the allen heath but i can do that here again for example if i want to map the glide i just click on the light here and the diva and just move one button here i take this one so it's linked and the glide [Music] works and it's pretty nice to play with that around and yeah i play original melodies i improvise sometimes i just send midi notes inside to play around with those cut off parameters or other current parameters yeah it's pretty fun um i know mini mappings can be pretty frustrating sometimes and it's pretty chaotic as you can see but once you did it and it works it's pretty stable let's check out the reverb this is an analog pattern and it's an analog reverb actually it's actually not just a reverb there's a delay inside there's a harmonizer the different effects inside and i really love it let me show you how that sounds for example with the diva [Music] as you can hear this preset is a harmonizer you can hear those small overtones over there it's pretty pretty beautiful or for the pads maybe another preset uh i really like this one it's a really long beaver tail [Laughter] beautiful and yeah you can also do some weird stuff here [Laughter] and change the parameters as you can see the sounds are really beautiful and uh there's a big advantage that you save cpu because it's not a digital reverb and yeah let me show you how i connected with abetton live i have it on on number c and i integrate it with the external audio effect plugin so the computer is sending the audio signal to the interface and the interface is sending the signal to the reverb and it goes back to the interface and back to a button live so the output is going into the input of the interface and the output of the interface is going into the input of the event height so it's pretty comfortable to use and i have it on the scent and i can just turn up the scent folks up on this element and i have the reverb here i'm gonna solo it so let's move forward this is my archive midi mix it's basically a loop machine i have eight drum loops um it helps to make something unique at the moment to make some new transitions with a classic snare roll and these clips i loop the whole time so they start in the beginning and i just turn them up at the moment i need them so let me show you how that works i'm gonna play the intro for flitering without this narrow and can include some high hats or a nice clap [Music] [Applause] [Music] so this is my little loop machine these were all my tools and now i will play a little session so you can see how i make a transition i will go from the track fleetering into the track [Music] lifespan [Music] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so let's have a look into a bitten and see how the transition was made and this scene is the intro of the track lifespan here in this group i have the outro stems of the track flitering and by the way if i start this scene um the bpm is automatically changed there's a code you can use you can you just use the number and the letters bpm and the semicolon and the bpm is automatically changed so back to the transition um i'm gonna show you how that sounds i can gonna press solo on this group [Music] here are all elements and i have all parts on this channel so i can easily fade it out make a reverb tail a low cut and bring all other elements inside so on the left side here are all the stems of the track here's lifespan percussion the other pads also have to make some lever tails here or to add some other drum loops maybe a clap and i can fade it out here [Music] and bring the track lifespan inside [Music] so this was my live set i hope you enjoyed watching it and maybe you learned something for your own live set and maybe 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Length: 31min 57sec (1917 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 06 2020