Live DAWLESS Setup - How to perform WITHOUT a Laptop! 

how about showing an actual performance, at the venue

Thanks for this. Actually watched this awhile back and did that with my OT. Bruh, 31 Thumbs down? What is wrong with people?

yesss

Woo! I'm stoked to hear what you make! Let me know when you get up and running

Taetro totally agree. 👌

Yep that would be great

Maaaannn, now i see this?! 😩too late... But i do have another show in June that i will make one for sure!

Enrique Martinez cool. Love that you are so involved with the peeps watching. Inspiring. 👊

If you're ever in LA let me know! i play every now and again :) Thanks for watching

Not a bad idea! I've been thinking about breaking it down

Ricky Tinez it’d be super rad to see how you market yourself for booking gigs, and onward from there.

hell yea! that sounds like a fun setup for sure.

Thanks man! Give it a try, that's where he creativity is ;)

Thanks man! RU-vid royalty free music on deck ;)

working on a follow up to this one! check back in this weekend ;)

Moletron! thanks so much, really appreciate it.

I don't mind helping others create! It'll only inspire me down the road.

hell yea! thanks Deegos. Glad you're enjoying it

Mark Circuit has slowly become my mobile midi controller because of the scale mode and it's battery power, haha. The Avalon trick worked nicely though. It can also be done with a DAW over USB!

Love hardware setups, I study music tech and I am a musician as well but I love live hardware. I want a circuit as well.

@@jumpkickinfernospeedcuber6999 Do you guys know of any courses or videos where people actually step-by-step explain various techniques a lot of people use to perform live in setups like this? I love messing around but I have a very difficult time getting much variety or musical completeness. My setup is: Novation Circuit, Korg Volca Modular + FM + Sample + Mix, Minilogue, Behringer Neutron + Arturia Keystep, Casio CZ-101 (which I can't figure out how to program), and Korg Wavestation (ditto), a Boss PH-3 Phaser pedal, Korg Monotron Delay (ports are iffy so can't use it as a delay fx unit anymore), and Behringer Xenyx 1202FX mixer. So I know I have what I need, but I guess I lack any decent keyboard playing skill or a box with deep sequencing and FX capabilities like the Octatrack. And the built-in sequencer for the Minilogue is not good for live performance (can't switch patterns seamlessly). I guess I just need someone to guide me in the right direction when it comes to editing electronic music gear on the fly.

Thanks Adriano, couldn't agree more with that statement!

Woo! those card things work! haha, thanks for sticking around.

Thanks Jesse, glad you dug it.

Thanks Funkbutterfly glad you enjoyed it!!

Jason my man, thanks so much!

Enrique Martinez one question where do you have the midi Going from and to the circuit, I ask because I have the bs2 and circuit, been playing with the ext in filter and using the bs2 as midi controller to setup my patterns, then playing synth1 back through bs2.

Jason Thorpe nice! That’s another setup I love using. In this setup I have Clock from Digitakt going to Circuit’s midi input (No notes just clock). Then I have Circuit’s midi Output going to the Avalon Bassline. Just so I can use Circuits ‘scale mode’ to enter in the bass notes on the Avalons sequencer.

Matt you're the best thanks for watching!

Enrique Martinez any time, keep them coming👊🏽

I prefer Yerba Mate for caffeine, but even then I prefer a nice swig of Kratom over any caffeine source.

Nice! anywhere i can have a listen?

Atomkey Sinclair I love my Elektron but hardware can crash just like a CPU. There is nothing wrong with using a DAW going DAWless or a mix of both.

Thanks Atomkey! I hear that, i have yet to have any gear crash on me, haha! I have had horrible detunes though :(

The mix of both is the almighty

Same! amazing set by the way it was soooo good. Got me pumped for when i went up.

Completely agree, It's all about the process and how others have fun making music. It is nice learning a machine though and improvising on the spot!

I disagree with 'incomparable', IMO it's the other way 'round, vst's can fake things from the hardware world. Stack enough fake, yeah, pretty...uh, complicated. But live, no one wants to watch someone use a mouse, that's an aspect of the daw hate you are inferring, the other half is latency. For me the box is a toy, if I stumble on something worthwhile it gets done on a dedicated piece of hardware. The box is not a holy place, and I will voice otherwise to anyone who even hints at suggesting the idea. There is also the 'oOooh pretty' gui ignorance, albeit more inline with the younger set. To think this flashy pirated expensive vst is the chet, and not realize it's a clone of an analog synth that just added fm. The kid never realizes the fm aspect is routable, never learning more than how switch patches, thus from a standpoint of musicianship...doesn't stand the test of time, and he or she will have to get a real job someday. All of you daw happy people have shot yourself in the face, every vst costs 10-100 times what it should. They're bloody aps, 2.99 tops, 4.99 if its stellar. anything more and it's bloody robbery, but you all fed it, now look at it, lmao...

Gossamyr Thorne I get where you’re coming from but there are VSTs that will perform just fine with zero latency. And I think most (besides DeadMouse) use a dedicated keyboard 🎹 instead of a mouse. I think JunkieXL uses his hardware integrated with Cubase and VSTs perfectly. Build up sample libraries of your hardware and then tweak them some more through the magic of the “toy box”. Lol Now for your “price” comment. I agree. 90% of the VSTs out there are overpriced. Only a few deserve the $150+ price point and those are things like Omnisphere. I actually enjoy using HELM which is a free VST and does a wonderful job compared to some pricey softsynths. And Audulus can compete with a wall of modular if you know your shit and can use your brain.

Not that it can't be done, exceptions being what they are, most don't use their brain. Sad fact along any 'thing' people get into. Accessibility and uncreative people are the recipe that can and have killed genres, due to copycat oversaturation. Instead of pushing innovation, it's just copying a popular track, and flooding a genre so it 'all sounds the same' and people walk away(minimal, trap, etc). The record companies are just as bloody guilty, only pushing things that follow 'what worked'. We as music creators kind of have a responsibility, and those of a lesser stripe are hurting us, whatever the mechanism. So, I think that's my point. I want more thinkers, and I say this realizing the biology of primates, that they(we) learn predominately thru emulation. Take a jazz class. All you learn is how people in the 20's-40's innovated. There will be a little theory, but most of it is more of a history of jazz. Now just for a moment jump back into that time, how much did they emulate? I think some of it might actually be inline with dragon force pulling in a mario bros synth line, and bending/speeding it up, which is funny. They did that too, they used popular songs and bent them which lead to other aspects. Now the secret. Pick any song with a cool hook that you dig. Plenty of vids out there how to learn it. Once you do you realize it's just a handful of notes. Not that hard, right? So the question, what the hell makes it cool. The secret is putting your being into those notes, the expression. It's something you can hear. Think. Innovate. Express. for god's sake... ps, no disrespect to the original commenter, just engaging in conversation. :)

What's wrong with using only a DAW? Next people will be telling us it's not acceptable to use only a guitar. There are no rules. Do what you want and have fun.

Who says that?

I'd say jealousy might be a factor, most wannabe producers that produce exclusively in the box and have never used real hardware are out of there element and wouldn't know were to begin. using hardware in a live context and making it mesh without hiccups isn't as easy that one would think.

There's no one way to make music. As long as the end result works for whoever is making the music then all good.

The classic "Just do it in Ableton in 2 seconds" but that's not the point. It's how we have fun making music that counts.

Couldn't agree more

That's because some youtubers are looking for reasons to be insulting. There are many ways to make music and each comes with its specialities and its limitations. Obviously you'll never get all the super tight tricks you can program into a DAW, but just playing back canned music doesn't allow the in the moment finesse of live manipulation.

Thanks!