How I Play: Johannes Brecht's impressive Ableton Live + outboard gear setup

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Johannes Brecht is a bit of an Ableton mastermind. He's built an incredible outboard modular performance setup that he takes us on a tour of in this How I Play video. Watch more How I Plays here: • How I Play: DJ / Produ...
How I Play is an original video series started by DJ Techtools in 2011 that aims to go beyond the traditional artist interview and explore how unique live performances work. The series focus on the tools and technologies behind the performance and how the artists build and control their rigs.

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  • @unseenraven
    @unseenraven9 ай бұрын

    Thank you for you guys coming back.

  • @Yaamaari
    @Yaamaari9 ай бұрын

    This is the best series on your channel. Much insight. Thanks!

  • @ericpeters0n

    @ericpeters0n

    9 ай бұрын

    Love it love it love it. yes yes yes.

  • @candyflip6345
    @candyflip63456 ай бұрын

    That sounded amazing through my speakers. Your mix is so crispy. Beautiful work.

  • @ericpeters0n
    @ericpeters0n9 ай бұрын

    This is a super impressive and brilliantly conceived setup.

  • @Nrtd174
    @Nrtd1748 ай бұрын

    Was für ein raffiniertes Setup. Hut ab für die ganze Vorbereitung und die Idee dahinter. 😍🫶🏽

  • @ACIDinYourhead88
    @ACIDinYourhead888 ай бұрын

    How do you connect NI Kontrol F1 with Ableton like a midi device ? Please show me details and steps. Thanks.

  • @johnfrizzante
    @johnfrizzante8 ай бұрын

    Amazing and eye opening on possibilities! But now I've got even more question than before

  • @cloeten93
    @cloeten938 ай бұрын

    whoaaaa sick setup man , love the minimalist approach

  • @djellisdee
    @djellisdee6 ай бұрын

    Very cool, sounds great! Inspiring live setup

  • @DJDevlar
    @DJDevlar8 ай бұрын

    Amazing. Thanks for sharing ❤

  • @JohannesBrechtMusic
    @JohannesBrechtMusic8 ай бұрын

    Thanks for hosting DJ Tech Tools

  • @dhaze909

    @dhaze909

    5 ай бұрын

    Hi Johanness, is there a chance to find somewhere that f1 script? isn't available anymore on the site listed in the description

  • @JohannesBrechtMusic

    @JohannesBrechtMusic

    5 ай бұрын

    @@dhaze909 the script is only a small part of my huge max4live patch for my liveset. i developed it very specifically for my needs - unfortunately it is not possible to separate the f1 feature. but i plan to share max4live patches on my website due to the many requests. but it will take some time.

  • @yoppoyo
    @yoppoyo6 ай бұрын

    Inspiring work! Thank you!

  • @Real_Coconutcash
    @Real_Coconutcash7 ай бұрын

    These videos are great! You don't make enough of them though haha - thanks for the insight Johannes!

  • @LucasDegen
    @LucasDegen8 ай бұрын

    Thanks for sharing. Like it. Nice workflow.

  • @phelper4554
    @phelper45549 ай бұрын

    Great live act ❤ great technical skills

  • @ItsWesSmithYo
    @ItsWesSmithYo3 ай бұрын

    Nice one team, thanks for the deep dive, strong work 🤙🏽😎🖤🕺

  • @zakgott
    @zakgott9 ай бұрын

    This is brilliant

  • @infinaneek
    @infinaneek8 ай бұрын

    Nice!! Some great custom Features you’ve made there!

  • @firevr
    @firevr9 ай бұрын

    Excellent!

  • @duroxkilo
    @duroxkilo5 ай бұрын

    this was great, thanks

  • @sandwich-breath
    @sandwich-breath8 ай бұрын

    Links to the customized search function and Max for Live devices would be immensely helpful.

  • @larsvanwijgerden9246

    @larsvanwijgerden9246

    8 ай бұрын

    Agreed

  • @bennywise410

    @bennywise410

    7 ай бұрын

    same i'm specially thrown by the search function, i'm pretty sure he coded the mfl devices himself tho

  • @abletondrummer

    @abletondrummer

    7 ай бұрын

    Here is one M4L device which does Scene search via text input kzread.info/dash/bejne/fI1rmZeJqreonZc.html

  • @mangrove1985
    @mangrove19858 ай бұрын

    Very inspirational!

  • @thedinnerdate
    @thedinnerdate7 ай бұрын

    Sick setup. Really good sound too. Dude really put some work into Max4Live. The midi fighter twisters are super powerful.

  • @KUSHGRAM
    @KUSHGRAM7 ай бұрын

    Please share the link to buy the ableton script for the F1 with step recording and keyboard features.

  • @wildnwoolley3113
    @wildnwoolley31138 ай бұрын

    You could make money sharing the M4L device you made to control the F1. There are a lot of forgotten F1s in closets.

  • @pyshmusic
    @pyshmusic8 ай бұрын

    super episode ;) !

  • @CudderMC
    @CudderMC2 ай бұрын

    insane

  • @francescomilloni
    @francescomilloni8 ай бұрын

    I’m completely stunned. This could be the most flexible yet powerful setup I ever seen. Does the single scene include the full arrangement or is everything built on the fly (as it looks)?

  • @hunterlyons6575

    @hunterlyons6575

    8 ай бұрын

    He produces each song then exports as stems. Each clip is a stem from a produced song. Doing it like this allows him to either play the song as it was arranged or remix it on the fly.

  • @Cybercowboy_69
    @Cybercowboy_698 ай бұрын

    Please ask Johannes to share the various scripts. They'd help so many struggling to play live.

  • @solconnection2

    @solconnection2

    7 ай бұрын

    its amazing how bad ableton live is for actually playing live hey

  • @IamJuniorMusic
    @IamJuniorMusic8 ай бұрын

    what a legend

  • @Unifono2012
    @Unifono20128 ай бұрын

    nice track

  • @DamianSol
    @DamianSolАй бұрын

    I'm so curious what device provides the MIDI clock or tempo sync or whatever for all these hardware devices. Is it just Ableton, do we think?

  • @bitbotrecords
    @bitbotrecords8 ай бұрын

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ awesomeness

  • @King_Bubbu
    @King_Bubbu4 ай бұрын

    Were can I find the mapping from F1? I can't find it on DJ Techtools.

  • @m_c_8656
    @m_c_86568 ай бұрын

    nice!

  • @DDXofficial
    @DDXofficial8 ай бұрын

    HOW I PLAY IS BACK?!!!

  • @Dekkie61
    @Dekkie619 ай бұрын

    Some really cool concepts in that setup. Love the focus knob, will be stealing that 😂. Do not fully understand how he goes from loops from the various stems to song structure: does he do this purely from live arrangement with the loops and additional instruments, does he trigger clips that play various parts of the arrangement, or do some loops play straight instead of looped? In similar fashion I don't fully understand how he does song transitions (as he says he doesn't play multiple scenes): so many things are programmed into these scenes (bpm, scale, etc) that transitioning seems complicated.

  • @francescomilloni

    @francescomilloni

    8 ай бұрын

    I can’t figure out how the focus knob works… as one focus’ midi binging should not coexist with different focus’ bindings, since those should be mutual exclusive

  • @JohannesBrechtMusic

    @JohannesBrechtMusic

    8 ай бұрын

    the concept is to be able to decide as much as possible spontaneously. therefore i have developed different max4live additions. for song transitions, i have a so-called follow and jump function. this allows stems to follow other stems or jump between songs. since i only play one song in the video, i forgot to mention this :)

  • @javierferrer9028

    @javierferrer9028

    7 ай бұрын

    @@JohannesBrechtMusic I don't know what the hell are you talking about but I just discovered you and your music thanks to the youtube algo and it made my day. What an elegant and beautiful track that A New Day is man. I just bought it, such a treat for just 1.39€ at Beatport. ❤‍🔥

  • @giobifasoli

    @giobifasoli

    7 ай бұрын

    @@JohannesBrechtMusic you're telling me you just used 8 loops in the whole execution? I did not get how you organizdìed the midi fighters knobs too.. it seems every column is a track, is it?

  • @paulchamley9915
    @paulchamley99158 ай бұрын

    how do you focus en one instrument? is it a m4l device?

  • @Zuke22
    @Zuke228 ай бұрын

    Where can I get those 4 by 4 knobs ?

  • @luvinfunvan
    @luvinfunvan5 ай бұрын

    What's the yellow button do? ;-) Great track.

  • @bboymac84
    @bboymac849 ай бұрын

    🔥🔥🔥

  • @wakinglife7065
    @wakinglife70656 ай бұрын

    Stupid question but did Johannes say that with the MFT he turned down all of his tracks except for the moog via one knob? Great track Johannes - you’re a star!!!

  • @stellarmediacollective7953
    @stellarmediacollective7953Ай бұрын

    This is incredible! How did he do the "everything else fades away" other than the Moog part at 7:15?

  • @brancoserra5509

    @brancoserra5509

    Ай бұрын

    Probably mapping that knob to every other element as a high pass or low pass filter or even volume. Map it inversed so when You turn it up it lowers everything else. He can do that since he has every track classified into 8 stems i think, like leads, pads, music, drums 1 drums 2 idk

  • @quantum_m3chan1c
    @quantum_m3chan1cАй бұрын

    I have a few questions, maybe one of you can help answer. 1) how do you you set up the NI F1 as a live instrument. Johannes mentioned it's mapped to ableton as well as the analog setup. Is it sending midi notes through ableton to the analog drum machines and then ableton is capturing the notes into the track, or the audio recording? I'm trying my best to wrap my head around all of this. I get the parts about how he's using the max for live to "display stem names" I guess just the names of the files that he's put in the different slots for drum / leads / vocal etc. 2) how can you make sure that the chords played with the midi controller are in scale? 3) I want to get started in production like this, and I'm trying to decide what gear to invest in to create & Play. Leaning towards Push 3 + (2x) Xone K2 for now. alternatively, keyboard like Korg MinilogueXD + (2) Xone K2. Being that there's so much the Push can do with polyphonic notes, drum, sequencing and launching, that seems the most modular. I'm really excited about this all and it's all a bit over my head. Thanks guys!

  • @rip-off749
    @rip-off7497 ай бұрын

    How did you make that "Focus" function where everything other than the one main sound is faded away when you turn the knob?

  • @giobifasoli

    @giobifasoli

    7 ай бұрын

    I'd map a group with everything but the lead and put a mild lopass filter on it

  • @oscarjmg
    @oscarjmg8 ай бұрын

    I got lost plenty of times. Trying to follow what the knobs did when they were pressed.

  • @kux_music
    @kux_music7 ай бұрын

    einfach zu krass

  • @constantinevit
    @constantinevit8 ай бұрын

    How did you make out of F1 a step sequencer? :)

  • @JohannesBrechtMusic

    @JohannesBrechtMusic

    8 ай бұрын

    this is my custom max4live patch

  • @constantinevit

    @constantinevit

    8 ай бұрын

    @@JohannesBrechtMusic could you please share it?

  • @extunc6066

    @extunc6066

    8 ай бұрын

    Would you mind to share it? You would make my (and surely some others) day :) @@JohannesBrechtMusic

  • @qwertySnowy

    @qwertySnowy

    8 ай бұрын

    Would love to have this I have an f1 that would like to use with ableton but doesn’t really work

  • @eenorwildeboar1451

    @eenorwildeboar1451

    7 ай бұрын

    pretty please share it? Thank you @@JohannesBrechtMusic

  • @cecilia_mackie
    @cecilia_mackie8 ай бұрын

    That’s fantastic! Feel free to reach out.

  • @SebastianBeyer
    @SebastianBeyer8 ай бұрын

    fuckin talent man

  • @mangrove1985
    @mangrove19858 ай бұрын

    POP-Up device pls? :)

  • @mangrove1985

    @mangrove1985

    8 ай бұрын

    Ah it's custom :)

  • @JJaxxon
    @JJaxxon9 ай бұрын

    Good guys you didnt bring up the midi script he is using for the F1! Saves me another 100€ 😹

  • @qwertySnowy

    @qwertySnowy

    8 ай бұрын

    What’s the script would love to try it. I have an f1

  • @tharoklive5127

    @tharoklive5127

    7 ай бұрын

    ?

  • @zeibeats
    @zeibeats8 ай бұрын

    why is soudned so clean ?

  • @torstenrausch8033
    @torstenrausch80338 ай бұрын

    Super individuelles Set up. Alle die hier nach den Scripten für ableton fragen, dass funktioniert wohl nur in dem Kontext, wie es der Künstler gebaut hat.

  • @andym7333
    @andym73338 ай бұрын

    DO ANDREAS BORN IN IBIZA BEST SETUPPPP

  • @meetingbychance
    @meetingbychance8 ай бұрын

    Please share f1 script . :€🎉

  • @tharoklive5127

    @tharoklive5127

    7 ай бұрын

    ?? 10:31 ?

  • @MusicalEngineering
    @MusicalEngineering8 ай бұрын

    Ich hätte ja gerne mal gewusst wie er in Ableton das mit den SCALEN gebaut hat.

  • @jadethepusher
    @jadethepusher8 ай бұрын

    Is that a ping pong table

  • @joncosmomusic
    @joncosmomusicАй бұрын

    Dude… I’ll buy the F1 mapping at this point. Doesn’t look like you’re keen on sharing it 😂

  • @andresdiazhurtado5234
    @andresdiazhurtado52342 ай бұрын

    Day 17 of coming back in search of that f1 keyboard script

  • @juliusabia811
    @juliusabia8116 ай бұрын

    Mawwwwwi wawwwei

  • @soyyo6893
    @soyyo68934 ай бұрын

    like for t shirt

  • @francisthecooldownroad342
    @francisthecooldownroad3429 ай бұрын

    Cool Man But pffffff wow

  • @madtho

    @madtho

    2 ай бұрын

    Right? I was thinking ‘cool minimal setup’. Uh, looks simple, not simple

  • @rocker4577
    @rocker45777 ай бұрын

    I love a delusional t-shirt. None of his gear would be possible without oil and rare earth minerals, but keep up the sloganeering and shit music.

  • @AlexanderCook87

    @AlexanderCook87

    7 ай бұрын

    Yeah I also cringed at the shirt. I was watching a climate protest the other day and I realised that it's likely very few of them work in fields of renewable energy, climate or environmental sustainability. I have several friends who coincidentally work for large energy suppliers and green tech at high levels and inside these large organisations who we are paying to orchestrate this transition there is no where near the passion these protesters have. It's interesting to me that people care so much about an issue or problem and will happily devote their weekends do shouting about it, yet in practice or in their regular lives do nothing about it.

  • @brooklynboy1000
    @brooklynboy10008 ай бұрын

    This is too nerdy

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