How to Build a Synth Setup for Live Performances with Panic Girl // Summer of Synths

How do you perform electronic music live using synthesizers? Todays special guest PANIC GIRL will answer 9 questions on this very topic! Sponsored by DistroKid. Upload your music to Spotify/iTunes using DistroKid: distrokid.com/vip/bobeats + get a discount! You support Summer of Synths & the channel.
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CONTENT
00:00 Intro
00:45 Q1 // Quick advice for performing live
01:08 Q2 // How do you pick what synths to use for a live performance?
02:28 Q3 // Do you make music for shows or adapt finished pieces?
03:46 Q4 // Live Synth Setup Explained
06:57 Q5 // How much is pre-recorded VS played live?
07:25 Q6 // What gets the audience going?
08:00 Q7 // What are some synths you can't live without
08:40 Q8 // How do you overcome the fear of performing live?
10:10 Q9 // What is one mistake you should avoid?
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[@PanicGirlVids]

Thanks again for having me Bo, that was so much fun 🥳🥳

[@pipposgarage7598]

Thanks a lot to you and Bo!!!

[@elarielo]

Hey Mr. Eats, thanks a lot for highlighting people like Panic Girl, not only I didn't know her, but she also has a lot of interesting projects going on! Subscribed automatically.

[@BoBeats]

glad to hear it! Thats what SoS is about

[@BrotherMynor]

Panic Girl is super well spoken and clear here, I loved it. This video is a wonderful example of simplicity being supreme when breaking down production/performance concepts. Amazing!!!

[@pipposgarage7598]

Thanks a lot to PanicGirl and you!!!

[@I.O.M.]

Love the resampling method live and then playing it back on a new device. This is one of the reasons I have the SP404 MKII. Thanks for sharing!

[@PFZ]

Excellent video. Thank you Panic Girl for these very practical tips. Bo, I’ve really enjoyed the editing approach on your last few videos. Cheers.

[@volsteh]

yeah Panic Girl!

[@xntricity6446]

Thanks for this breakdown of workflow. I have accumulated alot of synths and have struggled to find a workflow that works for me love. This has helped greatly ❤

[@chrisdavies9143]

Great video Bo (and PanicGirl). As someone who is preparing to go out and play a live synth setup for the first time (I'm a guitarist normally) there are some really useful tips in here.

[@rodrigolaporte274]

Very interesting insight!!

[@dankeplace]

Everyone has a creative workflow. If I had not seen your channel or some others, I would still be stuck in the box with a mouse and keyboard. I love my gear and I love how it can be an extension of my creativeness. Thanks for showing us another talent that gives us more inspiration. :D

[@yabiru]

What pieces of gear do you use bro?

[@dankeplace]

@@yabiru no particular order. Blofeld keys DM12D * Pro 2 Pro 3 Nord 3P Drum Akai Force Polyend SEQ Minilogue XD * Wavestate * Mopho SE Mopho module AS1 x 2 Rev 2 module KSP NDLR Typhon * E touche` Bunch of pedals and few other bits n pieces, anything with an asterisk is possibly going to be sold for something like an Osmose or w/e.

[@astrocat2008]

Very sweet and interesting ! ☺🙏✨

[@georgeray3492]

Bo and Panic Girl, thank you for the time and effort you put into this video. Live performance is a unique and different environment from working in a studio. You made excellent points. The calm tone and soothing music track were helpful in communicating the message. All the best!

[@arcticfoxstudios2018]

Very cool Bo, and Panic Girl got a new subscriber. Great synth selection Panic. I love the variety of sounds you are getting.

[@caxtnova]

I'm really interested in live performance workflows not because I plan on doing any live performances any time soon, but because I really appreciate the focus on expressiveness and making the most out of your gear. Also, always love seeing more of the Matriarch!

[@BoBeats]

Panic Girl totally should make a series on this!

[@caxtnova]

@@BoBeats I'd watch it 😁

[@MidlifeSynthesist]

Beautiful video! This was amazing👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@cornhusk]

Love the work you do Bo. Keep it up

[@CharlieYsasi]

Looks like you read minds or something Bo, I've spent pretty much the last 2 days thinking and starting to plan my setup for a live performance. Right now I'm a solo artist, no plan to play with musicians for the next couple of shows and might won't be able to travel with my main instrument (guitar) because of budget and stuff. Thnks for the great content!

[@patrickpoggensee6333]

Great Video! Panic Girl is really talented and seems to be a very kind person as well. Thanks to both of you!

[@PanicGirlVids]

That's very kind of you to say, thank you ^_^

[@MkUltra612]

Great video - much appreciated!

[@novachord1]

This was excellent, Bo and Panic Girl!

[@beckysantmarc]

Great video!! I really appreciate the PanicGirl tips and it was really interesting too know about her live set up. Thanks for this!!

[@PanicGirlVids]

Glad you liked it!! 🙌

[@The_Trees]

Love this, thank you!

[@nouwiimusic]

Thanks a lot for this video! Really gives me insight as I'm planning a live set I'll be playing in front of friends & family. I always feel kinda bad about having it fully sequenced from start to end when I see other people easily jamming, muting things in and out, playing keys live or looping live stuff. But improv isn't really my thing, and my music is essentially synths sequenced live. That's the safest way to go for me, and it's still a lot of fun getting the progression going like that rather than screwing up the momentum with bad drops for example. I still try to add improvisation sometimes, like finger drumming claps or something, but I'm always back to twitching those cutoff/res knobs... x)

[@iosmusicman]

Great stuff. Very interesting and some beautiful sounding material in there too. Cheers. Lee

[@gigagoatt]

Ok, that Laying on the floor DEFINITELY got My Attention!! 🦁Rawrrr

[@heckseven]

Great tips! Thank you!

[@daneguitarist1]

great artist, great guest, great show

[@jodd5534]

this is the cutest interview

Really interesting theme, that could be revisited, I think Bo. Very good advice, Panic girl!

[@mk1st]

Thanks for the tips. PS I love my Matriarch.

[@madothelovingmano4547]

thank you its inspiring. I m trying to find what would fit to me and your video helps !!

[@ciatangallaghe2485]

Sequencers. And nice hats.

[@kareljanda3399]

Thank you for some great tips! Planning on dropping my first real concert/jam next month for my birthday party. Merging my instrumental works with electronica jam afterwards for the first time. Might be too bit ambitious playing live for about 2 hours, but you know I tend to dream big. :)

[@555atU]

What a lovely lady.

[@oldunclemick]

Great video 👍

[@christoroppolo8742]

A very talented person👽✌️

[@phuturemusic]

Hello guys 👋❤️💐

[@sebastiangutierrez2962]

Hey great video, I have a little question I'm new to synths and I'm using a minimoog style synth in my band (pink Floyd type band, just 1 synth) , should I use a DI box to hook the synth for live gigs?

[@ytJnC]

After each performance large or small, I usually take a few notes on what if anything went wrong. Sometimes it may be with my playing or something that was unexpected with the gear. I usually use that as rehearsal points to practice, particularly if I feel I need to reevaluate a sweet spot in the synth sounds or if theres a passage where I was prone to mistakes. Lastly I use information from my notes to build a first aid kit to deal with interface to house contingencies (adapters, cables, extension cords, gaffer tape, etc.). With that in mind, don’t take anything for granted. Like the first time I played at a particular bar, they had a PA system. The next time, I still chose to pack a busking amp at the last minute, which turned out to be a great save as they had removed their PA system for a simpler but weaker house intercom as they had shifted more to spoken word instead of music.

[@withRUfUS]

What do you use for amplifying your music live. Do you have a personal pa or another setup if there is no pa to plug into ? Curious

[@strangesevin]

I just need to get studio quality sounds for my machines and mic on KZbin and all platforms but on my.phone.. do you know how I would would do this?

[@telumatramenti7250]

Notepad 12 FX is great but bulky. When I did busking and collective live jam gigs I opted for Moukey MAMX1 and MAMX3. Both of them are great if you use one as FX sends, and MAMX3 has extra output for monitoring headphones. Extremely powerful too, - 8 stereo inputs and 2 stereo outputs for under $50, and the sound quality is quite decent, surprisingly enough. Yes, it has no onboard FX but those usually suck anyway. If I absolutely must use onboard reverbs to save space on pedals and FX processors, - I will probably take QX1002USB because I actually like some of its onboard FX but as a last resort. It is quite bulky. Something always has to be sacrificed in live shows.

[@jimorgain63]

how are you recording in to coco, isnt it a synth? does it have recording feature built in?

[@daneguitarist1]

I dont know if you know this but PanicGirl actually wasnt birthed she was created with soil and electronic components, but they melded and then dissolved away i guess.. i dont know how it worked, id have to ask loopop as i do with most of my synth questions, but i heard there was a perfectly timed lightning strike onto a reel to reel machine and some magnets

[@bahutu802]

So interesting to see that she usually doesn't connect / sync her devices via MIDI. I imagine - while it may also introduce some challenges - that it might be quite relieving not having to worry about MIDI channels, transport (start/stop) messages, wiring order etc... thus freeing up alot of capacity for musical exploration. Might not work for all music genres though. Probably better for ambient performances, and potentially not too suitable for tight beat performances. Super inspiring, cause it is a common constraint inside my head, catching myself thinking quite often "Well, that's not possible cause I don't get how to sync that...".

[@AveragePicker]

We never sync’ed anything, and I was starting to think we were the only ones. 😂 We we’re also sort of a hybrid of…I don’t know what to call it, experimental/ambient with a beat. Some things I learned: 1. Some days it just didn’t work. Things would not sync up well. We learned to accept it. 2. Used audio cues and brought pieces in one at a time. This sometimes caused “long intros,” but worked. For example we’d get the a part going, then trigger a one off sample, this told the other one to go ahead and bring in the next bit. Sometimes one of us wouldn’t hear it, so the other would just trigger it again. 3. Practiced. And tried different ordering for bringing things in. Sometimes using a particular loop first made it easier to sync. 4. Tested repeatability. Some pieces only ever worked that one time. In which case we’d sadly shelve it. 5. Ordered the set around minimum changes. Those tempo knobs are finicky, if we had two pieces more or less at the same tempo we’d line them up together, sometimes altering one to be a bit faster or slower than we originally wanted. Or even it meant some pieces were performed with slightly different tunings or sounds. 6. It was exciting. No piece was ever 100% the same. I enjoyed and embraced the struggle. (My partner not so much.) To me, what is recorded should be an average approximation of what to expect live, and sometimes what we’d thought would be a transition would turn into a thing in itself as we argued with syncing. And there’d sometimes be these crazy great moments that would never exist again but were perfect in the moment.

[@cedric2280]

it's good:) you talked about audio but nothing about automation & sync and also sound recall with preset or program change all the best

[@smellymala3103]

Hahahaha I am watching this for reassurance to carry around my matriarch 😅

[@mr_floydst]

Thanks for another great video. One question I have is - how to actually start performing electronic music? If you don't live in Berlin or any other big city, that is. ;-)

[@PanicGirlVids]

Do you mean how to get booked for a gig?

[@mr_floydst]

@@PanicGirlVids Yes indeed! How does that work? (I really have no idea).

[@mr_floydst]

@@PanicGirlVids (I mean I know it's hard work, skill and a lot of PR on your part, but there's also the formalities and the actual procedure)

[@PanicGirlVids]

@@mr_floydst I’m not sure what you mean with procedure, but usually when someone approaches me who is interested in booking me for a set they describe first where and when the gig is, and ideally how much budget they have planned for booking the artist. If it all agrees with me, I usually ask how long the set should be, as it makes a huge difference to me if it should be 30 minutes or 2 hours. If we agree on all those terms then they usually ask for a Tech Rider. It’s a PDF or something similar, where you describe what equipment you will be taking with you on stage and what you will need from them, like stereo monitoring on stage for example, a table that should be at least this and this long, and what cables they will need to get the audio signal from your gear / mixer to the sound technician at the venue. When all this is done you usually get a time slot for your sound check at the venue, and then you go from there! I hope this helps :)

[@mr_floydst]

@@PanicGirlVids Thank you very much for your detailed answer! Yes, that helps. I know my question was a bit odd but thanks for answering it.

[@lundsweden]

I take my Win 11 laptop, thing never crashes!

[@MyReasonToPlay]

“Summer of Sins” (c) KZbin auto-translated subtitles

[@BoBeats]

Kind of accurate

[@thetruthandbeyond1254]

Hur fan fick du henne hehe har lote ömsidig kärlek till henne då som verkar vara så varm och bra människa:)

[@jimorgain63]

what they say, coocooquantis? wtf is the lower left thingy, not in gear list

[@adeevision1297]

i play my stuff live don't really produce studio songs

[@massive.begleiterscheinungen]

I saw a few videos of Panicgirl and even that her Style isnt mine, Im looking for the work behind the artist and that makes her look like a good choice for your kind of video....👌🏻🤗 Thats just one thing why I follow you for that long Mr Bo😘 All she said is what I would have said too🤦🏼‍♂️😂 Only one Addition from my side, since I got my SL49MkIII, that is a Beast for bringing all that work you put in to one working place while have each thing still reachable....🤫😬 Was happy to see your video or what its about, because after my Dad died last year I decided to rebuild my complete Studio and also to get back all my social media channels back up..... where I will show an video close to yours on my Tube, talking to a few Dawless-Live-Artists and their "way" of doin Music and their thoughts and tips behind it🤫😂🤦🏼‍♂️ Love your vids Bo and a huge ♥️ to Panicgirl!!!!

[@gigagoatt]

To bad she’s married!! 😂

[@jimorgain63]

only $10,000 in gear jeez, sorry just trying to understand, if money were no object