Nice to put a face to the hands. Love animals and synthesizers.

It's a pleasant surprise finding out that you're actually putting your superpowers to work in the real world! I've always enjoyed the musicality of your reviews. I don't go to live shows anymore but if I knew you were playing, I'd have to see it. You're a musical force.

@loopop

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for taking the time to write - it means a lot - hopefully one day!

Your reviews are now pretty much industry-standard and expected for any major synth release. This sort of video gives them additional weight because finishing music is much harder than noodling an example for a review. Even more so if the music ends up being good. And even harder if you are performing live. So kudos! I loved this 🤘🏻

@loopop

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much for taking the time to write :) 🙌🏻🙏🏻

Love it! Thanks for giving some insight into how you build a live performance. I totally agree we are spoiled for choice, and it always amazes me how each person mixes and matches gear to make their own unique sound and performance. Great content (as always)!

@loopop

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much!

Excellent video. I just ordered a Maschine plus finally. About 3 years late to the party but ive been wanting one for a long time. This video helped reduce my buyer's remorse. 😅

I love that there's so many ways we can address these puzzles of how to make everything work. Nicely done.

It's great to see your work in a live setting. Your expertise in selecting equipment based on the limitations of each is the best part of this video for me. The limitations of each piece of equipment is the most important learning curve for me, for the exact same reason. Thank you so much for that! Keep up the great work!

what a coincidence! I was not even a week ago in the same situation with the same choice of grooveboxes and I had exactly the same thoughts as you! It's good to see only a few days later this video as confirmation - especially from someone I appreciate very much.

@loopop

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, and yes it was a tough choice!

You are the VaatiVidya of synth-heads and electronic music. Your information has been so clean and easy to follow you earned a sub before I even bought any of my stuff and because of you and your tutorials I ended up buying a Beatstep pro and Keystep37. Thank you.

These kinds of extensive tutorials are very valuable.Thanks a lot!

Great to see you, see you playing live, and to hear your music developing further.

Finally the info i‘ve searched for so long 😊 thankyou very much! 🤗

Absolutely Amazing! The Launchpad addition for what it does was Cool. Thank you Very Much for Sharing!

Brilliant ! I am considering using the Maschine as a live brain too, still learning all the possibilities, this video really helps!

Great job. I specifically like the idea of one project and using the different banks for each song on the Maschine+.

Once again, an excellent and thorough video. Cheers 🎉

Interesting stuff as always hero💗

I have a Maschine plus, and I have lightly performed live with it. It works fine although you might run into bugs and CPU issues as said in the video. It works with MIDI like a charm, and I would defiantly recommend it.

Loved this video. I was so happy with my progress on the M+ this video made me feel like a baby trying walk. This is the best advertising for NI M+.

@loopop

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much! Not meant as an ad but they did a great job with this for sure

i bought mine yesterday...based on this video. thank you for the demo :-)

Thank you for this detailed look into your setup. I got the Plus precisely with this in mind. Doing Scene based songs is an especially useful tip! As always, thank you for the inspiration!

Wait, I thought you were just a pair of talented hands, but you actually have a full body! Mind blown!

your brain is amazing with this stuff man! thank you for sharing it with all of us.

Wow. You have a lot of knowledge in this area. Thanks for sharing this.

Interesting vid, really enjoyed the explanation

Just swapped my MPC live for a Maschine plus so your Video is perfect on time for me. Thx for that. My "brain" ist the Akai force. The Mic pre Amps and the pad Layout pulled the Trigger. Bur Love to have Maschine as an addition for Beat programming.

Now this is kool. Love performance material... very kool to see some stuff and also getting out there and doing it! Like you said "getting out of the comfort zone" Super cool man! Cheers! 🔥👊🧡👍🔥

@loopop

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much!

It's cool to see M+ "won", was handy, and your crafty use of it!

in case you wish to make fast changes in multiple tracks at once, I'd recommend APC 40 + ableton. you can midimap the faders to 'wash out' tracks and easily return to full mix by moving multiple faders

A great accessory to add synths, or even FX, to a Force, MPC or other groovebox is an iPad (or iPhone). Great for overcoming the 8 instrument limit on the MPC/Force. The synths and FX on an iPad are excellent. With a standards compliant audio interface, you get up to 32 channels in/out, plenty for routing sends or synths on separate channels (e.g. if using an external mixer), or the iPad can be the mixer for your setup (using AUM, Loopy Pro, Beatmaker 3, Drambo, etc.). Or just use the iPad as the groove box. The best setup on an iPad right now is arguably Loopy Pro with an Akai APC40 MKII or Novation Launchpad, adding a midi keyboard if desired. Loopy Pro gives a completely customizable mixer/UI setup (with MIDI/audio looping and clip launching), and you can run the entire show from MIDI hardware without touching the iPad screen with sweaty fingers. For people moving "out of the groove box" (attaching things to their hardware groove boxes), an iPad should be considered more often. I mention this primarily because of the goal in the video of doing the music composition and sound design on the go away from the hardware groove box. If the groove box is your iPad, you can do the design using the touch screen, then hook up the MIDI controllers for finishing the composition, practicing, and the live gig. There are so many ways to achieve a musical result. The iPad is far too often overlooked for a variety of uses, simple or complex. Thanks for this different content, Loopop! Very informative. I hope you can do more "full setup" videos like this.

Congrats LP!

Very comprehensive and complete review as always, better presentations than the makers page. Thanks 🍻

Great video as always! I use Maschine plus in my live sets too. It has been great. I think it's highly under rated.

This is so awesome!

Best demo of Maschine. I am IN!

This is great! It came at the perfect time. I've also recently been trying to decide on a groovebox for live performance. I'd narrowed it down to the Deluge and the Maschine+. The fact that the Deluge is still receiving such strong support has sold me on it.

@ZetaCarinae

Жыл бұрын

The new screen on the Deluge will help a lot for live use, its pretty stressful to find things on the fly on the old one. My solution was to use a performance-specific SD card but that is kind of a pain in the ass.

@JackAcid

Жыл бұрын

I have a Deluge and love it's sequencing abilities. I had the Maschine Plus too, but I couldn't figure out how to prepare/arm a sequence to end naturally at the end of its chosen bar length; rather, I had to stop or mute them, which was always too jarring. I returned it because of this and also due to the CPU problem (very, very real unfortunately). But I'd perhaps get another if I knew how to prepare a sequence to stop naturally without hitting STOP/MUTE.

Great analysis! And so rare. Few people are in your position, with such a range of gear to choose from. Like many others here, I would love to hear your whole set. And hit me up if you ever come to Ireland.

@loopop

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much! Right now the set is only available on Patreon, but it's at the $1 and if you don't like it I'm happy to issue a refund

My issue is crashing during project switches. Have to say with a much more expensive SD card its been a lot better though.

Good video 👍. The Maschine+ was never on my radar but I can see how this setup works better than the MPC One.

I agree with the other comments. Very satisfying to see you bring it all together for a live show. You'd definitely sell tickets if you came to London.

@loopop

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment and noted! It would be fun to perform there for sure :)

wow. love your cosmic vibe.

Thanks for a great video and inspiration

@loopop

Жыл бұрын

Thanks and my pleasure!

Oh this is awesome! Also so cool to see your face : )

mate, big fan of the channel, and funny enough, I am doing something similar, having the Maschine+ as the big boss, with Cycles being MIDI controlled by a Minilab 3 (so I can use the faders for Cycles tracks) but running audio into Maschine so I can use FX (especially sidechain and filter). Also have a Cobalt 8x as my main keyboard in the setup. Now it's just the balls to start making some videos (lol). You're an inspiration, bud.

@andrash_

10 ай бұрын

how did you connect the minilab to the maschine? and how you teach the faders to it?

Wow. Live sets - the most useful content to me. Thank you 🫶

You nailed it!

You can workaround the MPC plugin limit by saving your custom preset and auto mating a change to that preset in another sequence within the save plugin instance.

@novalogue

Жыл бұрын

is it possible to just make a preset change/switch?

Really great vid, picking up a used Maschine Plus tomorrow…14:53 sounds very Polynomial C - Aphex Twin ! ❤️

Hey. You are one of my last patreons. You may not realize this, but your kindness shows through in your reviews. As to my live sets, I opt to make as many things as independent as possible. I use an octatrack to grab 4 bars for transisitions. The less dependency between devices, the better.

@loopop

Жыл бұрын

Much appreciated! and indeed an octatrack is a powerful live tool!

Great video! I use a Maschine+ fed into an Sp404 MK2. I want the flexibility of being able to load the projects individually to play the instruments or drums and then use the SP404 for master effects and to play interlude tracks while I’m loading the next project in Maschine+.

@loopop

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much! I actually toyed with that idea at some point (I mean actually put it at the end of the chain) but preferred to keep the setup smaller. It's a great pairing though

Excellent! 😎🌟

Your set was like listening to Risk of Rain 1! awesome

This was great! It was awesome to finally see your face, and also to know your music is being heard live.. All throughout the video I couldn’t stop wondering what would it be like to have the Roland sp404 mk2 as a brain in such live performance setup

@loopop

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much! Since I really needed synths I didn't consider it, but I did toy with including the SP404 MK2 here as an end-of-chain processor/fx/transition tool. Might do it at some point!

@Screenshot1015

Жыл бұрын

@@loopop my live rig is just an SP404MK2 (I sample from the synths in my studio and field recordings) and it’s midi sequenced by a digitone which provides all my synth layers. The polyphonic midi channels on the digitone really empower you to make the most of the 404s capabilities!

@loopop

Жыл бұрын

@@Screenshot1015 nice! I will explore that at some point!

@RamRevivo

Жыл бұрын

@@loopop can’t it receive audio from synths or summing device?🤔

@loopop

Жыл бұрын

@@RamRevivo i’m not sure which you mean by it, but both can receive and process incoming audio

finally the video I dreamed about.makes me want to swap the mpc for m+ I came too late for your show but looking forward for next one

@loopop

Жыл бұрын

thanks for coming! hopefully there will be other opportunities...

My takeaway from this is if I was going to do a live set I'd just take one force and play an MP3 file and maybe one of my other synths while I was loading up another project. If that went better than my dreams of playing live then I'd get a second force. I think it's great having 25 different sound generators in a studio but live. I think I just want maximum 2units. And look after your ears. Don't go overboard on volume. You can get quite cheap amps that can blast your eardrums these days, but you only get one set of eardrums. They're not replaceable.

WOW!!! 😊 We finally get to see your face!! 👍🏼

There’s some Telefon Tel Aviv vibe there and I like it. And Setup is nuts.

I’m in the market,, your video has further influenced me. I run MKIII and always wanted dawless portable gear… thanks

What a great insight view how you setup a live set. Watching nearly all of your reviews cause they all are not only excellent tutorials and in depth view but also musically well done. Every device has its own workflow and its a big mystery how you can dive into them like you use them for years. I would be very happy if you could make a video with Synthstrom Deluge replacing the Machine in a live Situation. As you mentioned it has its cons against Machine (for sure) but limitations sometimes open new doors :-)

@loopop

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Yes I do want to get to Deluge when I have time and get my hands on one with the new screen!

I think that another super power of Maschine is that you can change a scene while it's playing, without having to wait for it to end, for the second one to kick in. This is game changer in a live set (I never owned any of the other sequencers you mentioned so I am not sure if they can do that as well)

@JackAcid

Жыл бұрын

Hey bud. I had Tue Maschine Plus but I found I couldn't use it live precisely because I couldn't (or possibly didn't understand how) 'arm' a scene/sequence to end at the end of its natural bar length. The only thing I could do was either mute or stop a sequence, which doesn't lend itself to a smooth workflow. As a result I returned it (also due to the horrible CPU issue). But I'd reconsider if there was a way to start and end scenes/sequences in this way. I also have a Deluge, which has a superb sequencer, and does precisely this, so it's a breeze in live performance

@darkuniversesound

11 ай бұрын

​@@JackAcidOn M+, you hit shift & Grid, which takes you to the choices between how you want Scenes and timing changes to happen.... Super easy and powerful feature, and if you add Maschine Jam, you can change Scenes on the Jam while staying on mixer screens and others on the M+ ITself.... Once again, extremely powerful in live use 🤙🌌

Loving it. Really digging that track in the first minute, where can I hear the entire track?

Loopop the kind of guy to make you genuinely want to turn your adblock off just for his videos.

Cool! Thanks for sharing how you arrange all that hardware together for performing in a live set 👍I think the biggest disadvantage of using Launchpad as a "scene-switcher" is that you can't figure out what scene is currently playing by looking at Launchpad's pads, since it doesn't light up the pad of the current scene 🤷🏻‍♂️

@loopop

Жыл бұрын

You're right - it's just faster than paging to scene mode on the M+

Great video, thanks! I`ve been developing a live set and have been considering the same options. Maschine+ kinda seems like a hassle, Akais offerings all seem unstable and buggy and the others just arent powerful enoughfor my use. So a computer with Ableton Live, a few synths and controllers it is I guess…

A face to put with the voice! Thanks for the video!

"Locks" function is in model: CYCLES as a "temp save"(if i remember corectly). Great for performance with no remorse.

The M2 Mac Mini due to be released in March + Ableton Push 2 and Babyface Pro FS, would make for an ideal zero latency live setup. Ableton has been rock solid on my M1 Pro MBP - with the exception of only a couple native plugins being too crash prone to use, (sadly, Korg OPSIX and Modwave.). I stick to all native AU plugins , loading tracks full of UH/E, Arturia, Omnisphere synths , Soundtoys, Fabfilter , etc - and the laptop doesn’t even break a sweat. Paired with the Babyface, it’s been a dream.

Finally!!! We see our mastermind )))

I think anything can be used for live sets, it all depends on the person's skillset, also people are wired differently, so what works for some might not work for others.

@loopop

Жыл бұрын

True

@dankeplace

Жыл бұрын

@@loopop Good to see the body and face behind the hands, when people have poked fun at you for just being hands, here you are proving that you are so much more. Congrats, and keep em coming!!!

I recently started doing sets after about 2 years in Batcave mode. And after my first set I immed cut out 1/2 my Hardware & pared down to one synth , circuit tracks, an old MacBook Air, mini fuse 2, Launchpad Mini, and launch key Mini mk3. And a guitar. I still feel like it's too much but my home studio is just not something I want to bring out, let alone set up and break down on a stage before or after other artists lol. Wish I could be there to see your performance and thanks for the helpful info on maschine!

@loopop

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much and hopefully one day!

@djofortunato5799

Жыл бұрын

@@loopop if you want to perform in Portland OR we could totally set something up with promoters! 😀

@loopop

Жыл бұрын

Thanks and noted!

@maxsmart9116

Жыл бұрын

@@djofortunato5799 Ditto on Portland!

Finally we see you.

Thank you for this video ! I have got the same set up for life but I choose the aka I mpc Just because on machine plus you can’t change tempo between scenes

@loopop

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure and indeed that's one of the "pros" for MPC - it really disappointed me that Maschine can't do that.

Very cool 😊🙏

Btw since you automate on mpc which includes patches so you can err well its not perfect but get round patch changes on mpc also something like circuit may be able to patch change on mpc but so far automate is best fix I come up with😁 love ya loopop💗💗💗

@loopop

Жыл бұрын

🙌🏻🙏🏻

Loopop face reveal! /Internet explodes - okay synthinternet anyways :)/ Excellent stuff! Reminds me while I originally liked the Mk3 controller and why it deserves more attention as a brain even at home in the studio or bedroom. Great overall lesson to evaluate the gear you have and really try to make it work for you - versus always chasing the latest and greatest.

force mention! lol (with 3.2.1 it seems as secure and full featured as ever if there was anytime for a walkthrough 🙏🏽)

Lookin good brah

I think Fred already answered this question emphatically yes.

Man. This is just what I needed! Thanks. Question, how do you feel about the CPU?

@loopop

Жыл бұрын

I wish it had more power of course, but as you can see, it's possible to work with it

I'd go to a Loopop gig gladly any day of the year. .....and I'd take care to only watch his hands during the performance to keep the mystery. (;

I would buy the album:))

Please do an Akai Force Deep review. This setup video is really interesting BTW please make more :-)

Akai Force has its own version of Lock, called Snapshot. Has had it for some time now. I much prefer Force workflow over Maschine+, and plug-in limit aside - it’s a far better machine IMHO.

@loopop

Жыл бұрын

True, though it's only one snapshot per scene if I'm not mistaken, so it wouldn't work as per the way it did here for multiple transitions in a scene. That said, Force is awesome and if it wasn't for the 8 plugin limit you might have been seeing it here!

@EnochLight

Жыл бұрын

@@loopop - for multiple transitions a Scene, you just copy/paste your Scene and save your new Snapshot - yes, you’d have to switch to the new Scene for the unique Snapshot, but functionally your end result would be the same as Lock on Maschine+. But yeah - that 8 plug-in limit. I’m afraid Force (and MPC) current SoC is showing it’s age.

@loopop

Жыл бұрын

@@EnochLight true and good workaround!

Thank you again for an awesome video. You had mentioned at 19:52 about transferring over your instruments/files from the computer to Maschine + , presumably tweaking within Maschine 2 software but where then saving on your SD card? In the User folder or within the Maschine 2 folder on that SD card?

@loopop

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I just put all the massive presets in the sound folder and it worked!

Is Loopop Live traveling to my city? I'll buy tickets to see that show 😎

@loopop

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Thx!!!!!!!!!

Maschine is entirely underrated and underrepresented in the liveset community. Very powerful, these units!

@loopop

Жыл бұрын

I think I rated it quite high here!

@vznquest

Жыл бұрын

@@loopop yes! glad to see you shedding some light on it.

@marcofedez

Жыл бұрын

It will crash that's why!

@fanofhumidity

Жыл бұрын

@@marcofedez seems good enough for Fred Again!

You could have run the gear through the Roland aira mixer, which has effects as well.

​ @loopop sound presets i make on the desktop are saved with the project. or mine are at least [massive, kontakt and reaktor].

Great video, as always 👏 . Surprised by the 8 plugin limit on the Akais. I thought it was 4 plugins per track but had never heard about a project limit. Or did I not understand correctly?

@loopop

Жыл бұрын

The limit is on 8 *instrument/synth* plugins. Indeed you can use up to 4 *effects* plugins per track

for us the limitation was the "no program change" in midi patterns, which means we had to use one instance of Massive for each sound we needed, Same for the Minitaur, we had to manually change presets (which is not so easy in a dark club). So we gave up after we realised the CPU was saturated after a few instances of Massive, If there was a program change on the virtual instruments and we could use only 2 instances of the plug in thru the whole set, that would solve the issue. Our set is 20 different tracks, so it was impossible. if the set is 3 to 5 tracks, it should be possible to use it live

@dvdny

Жыл бұрын

So I wonder if you would have had less of a resource issue if you used hosted Maschine with a beefy mac/PC?

@sierrasamusic

Жыл бұрын

@@dvdny definitely, but the point was a "no computer" set. that said, Maschine+ sounds FANTASTIC and we use it a lot in the studio. We didn´t totally give up at bringing in on stage, we might use a Force for all "Ableton live" replacement (midi, synths...) and Maschine+ for drums only

@schmapps1

Жыл бұрын

I believe program changes are stored and transmitted in the Maschine Lock States. So if you use those, to flick through your scenes, you can control the program changes appropriately with your external synths or internal VST’s like Massive

@sierrasamusic

Жыл бұрын

@@schmapps1 we were actually in touch with the great people at NI (as we got a sponsor from them), we talked with the product managers and we couldn´t find a solution. The issue was left "we know the issue, wait for a further update"...still waiting.

Awesome work! What about MC707? Did you consider it as the main brain for this set?

@loopop

Жыл бұрын

Thanks and crap! I forgot to mention it, yes I absolutely did - it has plenty of hands-on controls and sounds and would do great, but I really needed to work on the project on the road with my laptop

Omg he's out and about and has a body, not just hands😁🙌

Thank you so much man, you are a legend, definitely found some inspiration overhere. I own a lot of the same equipment and im setting up my live set too. I was wondering how you programmed the launchpad to control the scenes in Maschine? I can't find how to do this. Can anybody help me out?

@loopop

Жыл бұрын

Launchpad is sending simple MIDI notes - look up "MIDI CHANGE" in the manual (section 13)

Deluge is still great for live lol but there we go. Are you going to get the OLED for it??

@loopop

Жыл бұрын

For sure it's great and yes I will!

Brillant setup ! I was lookin for a "small set up" even for my studio and this is brillant, really. And see you made some live set is pretty cool 👍

@loopop

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much!

For akai instead of giving more than 8 plugins which needs a different harware as in cpu and ram prob. they can solve it by giving us bank and midi change messages inside of the clips so the clips in scenes can switch sounds. Need a bit of planning beforehand for us but i believe it’s a much easier and faster fix.

@loopop

Жыл бұрын

Agree, or better yet they can just handle it behind the scenes without even telling us

Master Level 🎚️ Meter is present for years ( when I started with MK3 in 2019 Master level was there on MK3 and later on M Plus ) but it's nice to see that you build your setup 😉 every channel and Group with Master can be automated .

Wonderful video. I got Machine+ for live gigs as soon as it supported Maschine JAM and I love the combination of both, offering a large surface for performance which still fits back to back into a slim DJ bag. However, I ALWAYS run into CPU issues with Machine+ in standalone mode. Even when I refrain from using CPU-hungry effects like the lovely "Raum", it might suffer from CPU spikes - or not. The unpredictability of it's CPU performance made me use Maschine+ in control mode with a Macbook, just because I can't rely on it's stand-alone stability. It seems that you did not have this issue and I wonder what I might be doing wrong.

@loopop

Жыл бұрын

I use Raum in this project (1 instance, as a send), multiple instances of Massive and sample based tracks (loops, kits, multisamples). CPU was at about 60%. If you're at more or less the same, I wonder if it's JAM that's causing the problems? Try without it?

@MijkvanDijk

Жыл бұрын

​@@loopop thank you for the answer, I have not considered Maschine Jam yet to be a possible problem. What makes you think it could be part of the problem? Isn't it just a mere conroller like the Launchpad you used in your video?

@loopop

Жыл бұрын

@@MijkvanDijk I don’t know, it’s just a “voodoo style” guess since you said it’s an otherwise similar project 🤷🏻‍♂

@MijkvanDijk

Жыл бұрын

@@loopop yeah, I'm gonna give it a try.

@paulpoint_

Жыл бұрын

@@MijkvanDijk nice! Deffo let us know if this fixed it?

is it posible to watch the full show? and i really like that i saw your face for short moment, so i know whos there after this long time im watching your videos. ...hello sir..

@loopop

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the interest! For now you can watch the full show (about 15 minutes) only if you're part of my Patreon - it's only $1 and if you don't like it just DM me on Patreon for a refund