Miles Kvndra [maɪlz kunˈdrə] is an electronic musician and artist based in Cologne, Germany.
His deep melodic sound contains elements from several genres such as minimal/melodic/ambient techno and deep/organic house. Apart from working on his own artist releases Kvndra focuses on sharing musical related videos such as synthesizer jams, tutorials, live streams and more with his community of 15,000+ people across all his social channels.
Since 2019 Kvndra released a couple of singles and EPs including his series "The Live Jams", a compilation of live recorded hardware synthesizer jams. The most recent addition "Earth - The Live Jams 3" was released in April 2022. Before producing music under the name Miles Kvndra he played bass in an alternative metal band for more than ten years.
"Kvndra's music is highly original, captivating, and both highly danceable as well as introspective." - Christian Villum, Perfectly Deep
I’ve watched this a few times, and wanted to comment. Excellent composition, and performance - your hands were busy. Beautiful video too. Look how many views you have for 5 months, and this is a single synth performance! That’s the power of great art hey? It’s undeniable. Forget step sequencing people! Just play the damn song!
Thank you so much! And although I’m a huge fan of sequencers myself, I agree that a person playing something completely live has something magical about it 💜
yeah it sounds better at home using small speakers or headphones but you also need to consider how much more aggresive that will sound on a live system. I've found any limiting before it hits a desk really flattens the sound in a live environment and its much better to get the sound you like at a level with a decent amount of headroom and that way you can have a much more dynamic sound and create loud moments rather than constantly being at the peak.
That is true, especially with the limiting. I try to be a little more gentle with the limiter now to just catch the peaks and it works well. Tried it already on a couple of gigs and the feedback on sound was very good. But if I need to make tweaks, the macro controls are mapped so I can easily access the most important controls
I don’t want to take away from the musicianship of any EDM artists but this just seems so much more respectable than spinning some turntables. 2:53 in is 🔥
Not yet but I actually just recorded a video about my 6 essential Moog patches (including this one) which I will release as a sound pack on Gumroad soon. Will need another couple of weeks but it's coming!
It’s an event in the synth community encouraging musicians during January to jam with their equipment as much as possible and share the results. Dune is my contribution to that
Probably pretty high up on their list. The OT is extremely popular and unique but a little dated so an MK3 or completely reworked version is quite likely. That’s at least my guess
Hi Miles awesome and inspirational. How doyou organize songs in the session view to change sound of instruments between rows for each song . I always need to load too many columns for my live sets but I see you maintain neat organized sets about only 8 instruments / columns
Great to hear that cleonx! I work a lot with groups in Ableton Live to keep things nice and tidy. In these groups I have all the separate tracks from the different songs. I work with this template of 8 groups in all of my tracks so transferring them between sets eg when I prepare a live show is quite straightforward.
Thanks for the tutorial and a great overview of the setup. Really creative way to use digitakt. Just a small clarification, is it so that you have main kick and bass elements programmed in Ableton in the first group and only use digitakt to add percussive samples. Or do you actually run a sequence for kick and bass group in digitakt as well as additional percussive elements? And another question, by grouping kick and bass elements together, it sort of creates a limitation of stopping kick, but letting bass play along. I guess it is ok, when bass is not driving any melody and serves more as a comp element, but if you were to play more bass driven house/techno music, would you then group bass elements into a separate group?
Thank you! Regarding your questions: correct, in this setup the Kick and bass are directly in Ableton Live, the DT only adds percussive elements. And great observation on your 2nd question, I stumbled across this issue too. The cool thing is that you can just open the group in Ableton Live and this way have access to the Kick and bass clips separately. I meanwhile progressed from this setup and this is how I do it now
