Setup transition from production to live

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Setup transition from production to live

Forgive me if this has already been asked.. So please point me in the right direction.

I’ve produced and composed music for a long time. My Setup for electronic music is:
Focusrite Clarrett - Audio Interface
Elektron Analog Rhythm - Drum Machine
Elektron Octatrack - Sampler
Korg minilogue - Synth
Arp Odyssey - Synth
(moog sub 37) - Looking to purchase soon.

Basically I produce music linearly into logic - however, I have the capability to use these in a more performance based environment.

What other equipment would I need to play live (not talking a DJ set) But like have all my music and samples ready & have them all hooked up so that I can say:
Cue my rhythms in my drum machine (drums seem to always be on the computer for live sets i see)
Cue samples and other things in say Ableton (I don’t have it yet)
Cue other samples in my external sampler
Have the synths cued with their bass lines & with lead lines etc

What does one need in order to hook everything up so you can organize it & play live, all in time & sync - I have some examples below.

For example: Leafar Legov Im sure has recorded all his elements (drums / synths / noises ) and is just mixing and cuing them in this set:

Stefan Bodsin here - Is using his synth - Moog - & cuing / mixing all the other elements - but its very seamless - i.e he’s not going into his synth to load a patch each time - something else is doing it.

Any enlightenment would be great :slight_smile:

Thanks,

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The acrylic console is:

po10-livecontroller-xl
po10-livecontroller-xl900×687 84.2 KB

Which is a custom built ‘thing’ by stefan

Here is a reddit post with somebody else recently questioning how to do this…

And from a post from stefan he says he has this inside that custom box

So this is some kind of custom midi controller - can anything else do the same job instead of programing and going all that stuff?

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It sounds like your hoping you need an Orbital/Daft Punk/Prodigy style multi-outboard gear sync’d type of set up.

But the truth is, all you need, is Ableton Live in session view, plus a nice grid style pad controller, but some faders and some knobs.

Tons of potential set-ups - all varying wildly in price. Personally, I’d go for something like:

APC40
Midifighter (or 2)
Launchpad Pro
If you need some extra knobs, grab a Midifighter Twister

What your trying to do sounds like a lot of fun. Good luck to you mate!!!