Born as a son of a music teacher in 1983, I started to take piano lessons at the age of ten and taught myself how to play guitar at the age of 15.
Until I was 16, I predominantly listened to Hip Hop & Reggae. Besides playing guitar and piano, I made my first steps into the world of djing by buying a mixer and two old turntables which I mainly used for scratching instead of trying to create smooth transitions between songs.
However, after experiencing a mind-blasting techno party in the late 90s in Dortmund, I began to focus more and more on listening to and mixing electronic dance music. I enjoyed small private techno parties as well as big techno festivals like e.g. the Love Parade, Mayday or Nature One and thus dived deep into the German electronic dance music scene.
After having graduated from university in 2010, I discovered the enormous potential of digital dj-ing and started to use my passion for deep, minimal and tech house to produce and perform my own music.
Salut, D'autres tutoriels serais super bienvenus pour les débutants comme moi !! En tous cas merci c'est très instructif on apprend pas mal de choses c'est juste dommage qu'on vois pas ce que tu fait sur le petit écran du jdxi même en agrandissant la video au max c'est pas net !
Hallo Wolfgang, ich habe auch beide Geräte und wollte mal wissen wie du den APC40 geroutet hast. auf den Fadern sind die Synth Parameter, richtig? hast du alles manuell angelernt? Danke !!
Thanks for a great, serious, in-depth tutorial. This is so much better for the beginner than the many rushed treatments out there. It is also interesting to hear the thinking behind your musical decisions. Looking forward to viewing your other tutorials.
Hello, Wolfgang! Thank you for making great lessons and good music! I recently got myself a Force and I'm a newbie at this. I really want to replicate all the actions in your tutorials to gain some skills, but I can't find the samples you use. Could you please tell me where to download these samples? If it's not appropriate to ask, I apologize. Have a great day!
You recorded on rekordbox connecting the mixer with a usb? Im buying the same equipment and i im planning on doing that to record the sets, any reccommendations or advice?
I recently got one of these like TODAY! ha. I have no idea what I am doing yet but this video is definitely helping me a lot. Can you recommend a good budget priced MIDI controller for it? I've heard that is a good option for various reasons, the only negative one being that the small keys on the JD-XI can be prone to breaking after some hammer time ha. Thanks.
Hey there! I have free tutorials on how to build tracks on the Force. Similar tutorials will come up for the Syntakt soon. However, you can download my Force and Syntakt projects of live sets on gumroad and see how the tracks and sets are made.
Great set! Really good to see how others have their Force set up, so many different ways to use 😄 how did you set up beat repeat? Can never get that right when i try
Thanx. It's as easy as pressing shift + arp set arp to beat repeat and every time you press arp from then on, you enable the beat repeat function. Have fun!
@@wolfgang_grows ah, that's note repeat. I've been trying to get beat repeat for audio tracks working to use like a looper, but can never get the X/Y settings right. Thought that's what you were referring to 😀
Thanks, I learned a lot! One Question on production.. How do you reorder your patterns? Is there an faster way than copy and paste? Sometimes I need to switch pattern positions or shift a whole sequence of patterns (eg if I need a another pattern in between break and drop). I find the pattern arrangement the most challenging on this device. Cheers
Glad this video is helpful. I'm afraid that copying and pasting is the way I do it, too. It's a little cumbersome and needs some strategic planning, but if you've organized your patterns the right way, you can jump back and forth between them without having to rearrange them again.
Every Force can have up to 128 vertical rows (tracks). 8 of them can be plugins and 8 can be audio tracks. That leaves you with 112 tracks that can be key groups, drum groups or midi tracks.
Hey fellow Force lovers! If you like my live set and you want to support this channel, you can download the full project here: wolfganggrows.gumroad.com/l/ksyip
interesting. i just discovered a few of your techniques last night. What I've learned was : Don't be Lazy. Don't be afraid to turn some knobs. Take risks. It's all there right in yo face. Do it!
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thoughts on the new kaoss pad? and thoughts on using it like you're using it here? love the setup man, awesome mixing. may be archaic by now but looks like this is going to be the setup ill be going for hopefully next week. :)
Hey there, did you get that setup or did you choose something else ? The only limitation with the kaoss pad is that you can only apply one effect at a time. Otherwise I’m pretty happy with that old school combo.
@@wolfgang_grows i got your exact setup. :) love it use it for all my events + host open decks with it. when dj's figure out how to use it i think its really rewarding for them, plus using this i've honestly noticed a huge improvement when i use new hardware now!
