14 thoughts on “Four Tet Explains His Live Setup

  1. I VERY rewarding video to watch, I often go through moments of doubting if I can ever produce anything “professional” using the tools I work with.
    It is GREAT to see that Kieran is so happy to work with tools that maximise his own spontanaity rather than fall in line with the dominance of Ableton as “the tool for electronic musicians”.

    1. Well put, live is amazing but just doing things in you computer gets old fast. I think that’s way I like the idea of a lot of things going into Ableton. Hardware not software.

  2. YES!!! Cool edit IS the best program ever! w00t! finally someone agrees with me 😉

    amazing video I could watch that for days!!

  3. LOL though I’m reminded of my first live set up: Realistic MG-1, Roland MC-303, SR-16, and SP-202 running through a Tascam Portastudio. In someways it was more fun than all these plugins and “real” synths.

  4. Yeah, for me, there is absolutely nothing less inspiring than sitting in front of a computer screen to make music. I recently turned off my mac/ableton for. Good and grabbed a korg esx-1 and roland sp-404sx and a 4 track cassette recorder….my music has never sounded better.

  5. He looks like he’s been hitting the Red Bull pretty hard, he’d better slow down or his rock and roll lifestyle may just catch up with him. I’m all for selling out/buying in, but I’m pretty sure that Red Bull-Vodka is the official drink of the anti-Christ. To each his own though

    1. id actually like to know this as well… all of the tempo matched seamlessly even when slowing down and speeding up

    2. I obviously don’t know this for sure, but it looks like there isn’t really any ‘sync’ here. The laptop and the loops within Live are of course synced, but, in a rather reductive simplification, everything else seems to be more of an instrument that he plays on top of the loops. The looper he has does appear to have some sort of BPM recognition that keeps in in time with Live, but KH even said that he can jog the tempo up or down for some cool phasing effects.

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