Ugh the people commenting about the laptop, I'll just assume they just don't get it. It's just a convenience, it's not a creative part of the process, it's optional.

i think this is what my grandma sees when trying to use my smartphone...

I love your setup. I am a 48 yo female from the US and have been working with keyboards and midi since the 80’s as a hobby. I can tell you that it is SO boring working with music on a computer. I actually used to work for a pretty famous company that made music software, soundcards and midi keyboards (long ago). The owner was involved with writing the midi standard. Everybody at the company thought that keyboards and outboard gear would be dead with computers, but just the opposite has happened. There is no fun to clicking a mouse. For true lovers of keyboards and midi music, they want their hands to be involved with moving with the music (like pressing keys on a keyboard, drum machine, etc.). People spend their money on what makes them happy. And anonymous animal is technically good at what he’s doing. Enjoy making your music, that’s what life is about.

total cost: 3 kidneys

For those saying that he could just do all of this with just a laptop, you are completely missing the point and obviously haven't been making electronic music long enough to understand. Sure, you could make something all on a laptop, but it is so uninspiring and boring clicking on tabs, sorting through too much junk and dialing in endless parameters with a fucking mouse. You don't need all the equipment this guy has, and the gear in this video is some of the cheaper gear you can buy. I use all hardware to create my music, and the only thing ableton is used for in my setup is mixing and arranging after the recording has been done. I used to make music using just software, but my productivity went up 800% after moving to hardware solutions. Software and Hardware are both valid solutions, each with their own pros and cons. The only cons of hardware are the price and limitations, but I would personally consider limitations a pro.

You can have all this digital in a laptop BUT it's so much more fun to do this with hardware

Everyone here complaining about the laptop clearely doesn't know how electronic music production works, and that it is completely optionnal. Thoses complaning that all of this is too expensive and who "can make music on a gameboy" : he never said it was necesary. A single synth is needed, but he uses multiples because more options is great. All of this costs 3500$ new, much less used. He's using the best low to mid range synths, so he's getting a great price/quality ratio. A macbook pro (ew) costs alone 1200-2800$, and good music vsts are in the hundreds. You can spend more on a single Roland synth ;). Point of this vid is to show an analogue hardware setup, not brag. He's obviously a pro, it's his work station, and theses are great hardware choices, which give you a huge amount of live production freedom. Comparing digital to analogue often leads to a dumb conversation sadly. Would you tell a pro harp player with his 15000$ harp that he's a show of for using expensive physical gear when you can get free shitty harp vsts online?

Now show us the barnacles of 9V adaptors that cling to the underside.

I'm a huge hardware enthusiast, and for a while I was strictly limited to keep my live set as clean as possible, free of any screens whatsoever. But one day a close friend of mine introduced me to the world of MIDI, and that's where my life changed. Now I use an iPad to control as many synths as I can afford with the ability to program chords, rolls, automated CCs, and a huge universe of possibilities. I've learned that hardware is all about pushing its limitations, but MIDI really opens a realm of possibilities that internal sequencers just can't replicate easily. So to all hardware purists: Try using a laptop once. It's mind-blowing.

How to do it without a laptop. "well, the first thing in the chain is my laptop running Ableton." LOL

Thank you so much for making this video. I'm just starting to get a setup together - Tr-8, Volca Bass with an Ultranova on the way. You have made it simple to understand this language!

Now THIS is what I call OBSESSION, why live any other way? I'm inspired to go create something. Subbed.

"Have a lot of money"

The absolute nightmare I've had trying to sync equipment (MC 909 , MicroBrute,TB 3 & Beatstep pro) I've visited many forums and gotten no help and even trawled KZfaq. Yet you have debunked it all for me , thank you x 1,00,000 . I was getting very frustrated. I just came across this video by chance.. Thanks again.

Thank you. This video has invigorated some of us "old guys" from the 80's and 90's who love gear, plain and simple. I just invested in the TR8 and TB3, they are not expensive! Let's not forget that these units are considered instruments, which is more than I can say for any laptop I've ever owned, then discarded a couple years later.

Excellent set up man! Really good to see and understand how it all works!

I've watched this like 5 times already. Excellent vid!!!

great!!!! awesome setup, great configuration! cheers

for everyone who is saying "he literally started the video by saying it starts with his laptop" two seconds after that, he said he only has it on the laptop for remixing and effects, and he could easily do it with the Roland TR8 starting.

Man thank you! I was hoping this could be longer!! Very intuitive and Musical, keep on!

Cool use of your vocal samples. I especially like the up-pitched ones.

Thumbnail: "How to make electronic music live without a laptop" = "How to fly the space shuttle"

Thanks for the video. That sounded great!

Great setup!! Thanks for sharing

this was really helpful thanks man. Ive been looking into using live loops in my set up and this has really inspired me. Id really like to see how you move between songs when doing live sets, unless you just use this for production

When you said "Starting with the top of the midi clock chain we have my LAPTOP over here running Ableton live..." I was about to skip the video right away... luckily I didn't do it!!! Keep up the great work

Great setup, great video, gave me some ideas to try with my own system. Thanks!

Amazing setup love it mate keep at it :)

So have you tried the Roland MX-1? What would your setup be? I usually use the KP3 as the midi-clock source so I can scrub out on auto bpm.It would seem that the MX-1 could replace those tiny mixers and one of the kaos pads. It's big though, big foot print.

great vid! love the midi routing explanation. I had a KP3 and couldn't get the sampling to sync right. as another person said here, it would start to drift. The esx1 is so great for chopping up vocals and spoken word.

This was fun to watch, thanks!

FN tight dude. The world needs more of this.

very cool demo! i've changed my routing of midi and audio many times over the years. I likely spend more time wiring that playing. :/

Super Sweet and informative. Thanks. I didn't even know what a Kaos Pad was until your video. :) I usually only plug in a synth, drum machine, and sequencer for my songs. It seems pretty simple compared to your amazing set up. Keep up the great videos.

Nicely done, I find it very interesting to see how others connect their various systems up!

Great setup and really helpful stuff thanks

Nice video. Lots of gear to keep track of, too much for my simple mind :) Having synced patterns is amazing. I have played around with that a bit. It's nice to trigger stuff, and have it be perfectly in sync

this is how artists made electronic music back in the 80's

Nice hardware setup! Thanks for taking the time to talk about how it's all routed. I need to hook up my Venom and ES-1 again soon.

Nice video, was consistently entertained. Crisp beats. Thumbs up.

*"without a laptop"* "we have my laptop over here"

as a laptop producer I can only imagine the feeling of having complete control over a setup like that, must be the closest thing to being god there is...

Thanks man! great content!!

So cool. Thank you for uploading!

3:08 "I can side chain it" Is side chaining an effect that is offered by the TR-3 or how do you achieve that with your setup?

i use my laptop for midi clock like you and i record into audacity. i run 3 usb>midi cables so its kind of hard to get rid of the pc altogether.

I have an ipad with around a grand worth of synths, daws, sequencers , Arturia Pro fabfilter plugins, etc., but your rig makes me want to go hardware ;) . then I remember how fond I am of the portability, reminding me why I love my iPad setup.

Awesome set up Loved this

people bitching about how much your stuff costs. I'm a guitarist. An Ibanez Prestige guitar and a Mesa amp with the standard tubescreamer and decimater setup is roughly $3,500.

like way you have your Korg ESX as the focal point of the setup use to have that myself awesome piece of kit ;)

Nice work :) Great Video and demo. Thanks

Great video and generous of you to share your set up with all of us. Thanks.

Next one, How to make electronic music with stones...

Titel: "How to make electronic music live WITHOUT a laptop".... 0:24 "We have my laptop over here"....

GENIUS!!!!!! LOVE YOUR STUFF!!

It's always nice to see someone who is actually a musician! Too many just play the filter and barely that. Nice vid!

dude this is the first video I've watched of yours and I'm in love. what should I get/do first to get in this community?

Very cool set-up. 2 Kaoss pad questions. How do you sync the KP3+ sampler to the MIDI clock? I find that even if I have sync enabled (as opposed to just matching the BPM) it seems to drift out of time after 3 or 4 minutes. Secondly, what are your favourite KP3 effects?

Very nice setup and inspiring !

Nice setup... great sounds!

All that matters is the result really. Aphex Twin said he prefers producing with analogues because it's more organic and has a human touch.

1st step: spend $10000 on equipment.

thanks for sharing this video. Wondering if you have issues with syncing the loops from the Kaoss pads....specifically how they can slowly drift out of time?

wow - such a great setup!

this looks like fun

stuff like this is great except for one thing - moving it out of the studio to play live - utter hassle - thats why i use a laptop and midi controller now...great fun but breaking it down, transporting it and setting it up only to do the reverse at end of gig is a nightmare....

Thanks! This explains a lot.

Solid tutorial for beginner to intermediate. Much appreciated my dude

This would be amazing if it wasnt for the worthless loop-funktion in KP3 that drifts as hell. I have tried this myself a couple of times. Epic rig, anyway!

This demo was siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick. So I have 2 questions. 1. Is this totally different from sequencer programs because it is all live 2. Where do you get your voice loops those chant or sounds the voices made. Please lmk with these questions it'd be a biiiiig help.

pretty concise and clear examples of a live hardware setup and use. I use all hardware myself, though I don't use midi at all. Been thinking of making a similar video with my setup, and yours isn't too different from what I had in mind. Thanks for making it.

i'm always fascinated by this kind of stuff thanks for sharing your method and creative process. its helping me strategize how i'm gonna get around to the music i'm thinking of

Just buy a 24/32 track and be creative on each track! From an ageing musician....I repeat....MUSICIAN! 🕶

Are you trying to make music or launch a nuke? o_O

This was so helpful. thanks so much.

Great setup! :)

This is just AWESOME!

nice, got it ! now where is the music please?

This is great dude. Clear explanations, appreciate it!

Well done! Really great!

"How to make electronic music live without a laptop"...... firstly here is my laptop

title: without a laptop first sentence: first I send a midi signal from my laptop this does not make sense 😂😂

fabulous set up!

Great setup, looks like you have lots of flexibility to properly jam. Just wondering if the KP3+ stays in sync indefinitely? I was gonna get one but read that it works initially then falls out of sync after a while. I ended up getting an RC-202 looper which does midi sync, but I get the impression the effects are not as good and also no xy pad control

6:38 straight from hotline miami

what is the price for all this

Good to see someone who can use Roland Scatter in a right way!

This is completely awesome!

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>w/out a laptop >>shows a laptop

love this. is the sidechaining possible because it all runs back through the tr-8? also i was a little thrown off about the first part when you mention why you have two KPs. if i understand right, all the audio runs to the KP on the right and that runs into the KP on the left and that runs into to tr-8?

This is awesome!

Step 1 get a shitload of equipment worth more than a laptop

Or you can make electronic music with a desktop PC. Not a laptop :D

Hey there. Which units is supplying the sidechain compression pumping stuff?

Thank you! Like the video a lot! Help me to understand MIDI etc.

Everything sounded awesome except the drums.

well, the title of the video is a little wrong... i know you are not making the sound with the laptop but... you need a laptop, anyway great video

Very helpful. Thanks!

Hey man I have a question, after you get the master output from your mini mixer do you split that signal and duplicate it In order to go both Kaoss pads? And then, the first kaoss pad recives the hole signal and then out to the second kaoss and then to the mixer? Or after both kaoss path do you join both kaoss pad signals in one single (lef and right) master line to the TR8? Kaoss Pads are in send mode? Thanks!