Icicle live using TRAKTOR, MASCHINE, and KOMPLETE KONTROL | Native Instruments

Drum and bass producer and DJ Icicle showcases his approach to performing live using TRAKTOR, MASCHINE, MASCHINE JAM, and KOMPLETE KONTROL.
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[@shadowhenge7118]

I wish there was a tutorial series on how to set all of this up from scratch. From making the tracks to preparing and finally playing the live set itself.

[@shinobiyurei]

There are plenty of tutorials on how to set up instruments to play live in Ableton or Maschine and linking with Traktor isn't difficult. And Icicle himself has many master-classes online, especially on KZbin so you can understand his process, watch the demo video on Icicle describing how he set up this set, and how he uses everything in this video on NI KZbin as well! 😊

[@djsubliminalreeve]

with live performances there is not just one way and there is so many ways of doing it live. you can even have a daw on a laptop with the keyboard and some guitar pedals and anything really.

[@Jakeaway]

Shame about the hate for Icicle. A truly epic performer and from past experience seeing his live sets, a great DJ and producer. So many layers.

[@ChromeGhost]

Really cool performance. Was very interesting to see how he put everything together for the live set.

[@MentalS6k]

This is freaking awesome. I love it when ppl go their own way. Hats off Icicle 👍🏾

[@EINRiDI-official]

This is REALLY good. Great work Icicle. I my self own a JAM and a Mikro MK3, very nice equipment to work with.

[@fr4ctl519]

This is literally the best video I've seen this year, so far!

[@dr.quentin_quale]

He'S uSiNg tOo MaNy tHiNgS. You clicked on the wrong video if you weren't expecting a live production aspect. Cool we get you DJ, there are other musicians that enjoy making their sets live. Have fun with your 4 inch wide Pioneer controller. All in all cool performance Icicle!

[@firstlast1569]

This comment section shows how completely and utterly ignorant people are regarding what it takes to design a stable, professional, scale-able and most importantly great sounding method of turning fully mixed / produced tracks and finding a way to perform them in a live environment. Especially when there is no standard. I can't count how many clueless morons showed up at a club with a shitty laptop and 30$ midi controller thinking they knew what was up. 90% couldn't even figure out how to work a real mixer, let alone plug in their unbalanced 2.5 jack cable from the laptops headphone out. They'd stand there and essentially hit the spacebar and let their 'selection' train wreck all over Ableton's session view. It happened weekly for a long time... the promoter needed an opener after all. What baffled me is not that they thought they were doing something talented, or hell even doing it correct. But they thought that shit sounded good! I bring up this TL:DR here because these comments remind me of those idiots. Yes he is using two D2s with stems. That is what D2s are for. Just like he says very plainly in the previous video, he stems out simple versions of his tracks, and runs them each through a channel on the mixer to give it the all important DJ vibe with leveling, cross fades, cuts and EQs. You know... the things that makes people dance? Oh wait from those comments you wouldn't know that. The individual tracks transitions / drum fills / sequences that aren't stemmed are being triggered on Maschine Jam pumped out on a 3rd channel. On top of that he's playing the individual tracks melodies live using the Virus ti as the sound source over the 4th channel. The Maschine MK3 with it's built in sound card handles routing and midi keeping all of that in sync. Oh, and it sounds Fu*(ing flawless. What you amateur performers / professional haters don't even grasp is all of that had to be engineered for plug and play - repeat performance in a variety of clubs. "Why is that important?" you belch. He designed it that way because that's literally the mixer installed in clubs around the world, and he'll be plugging into it at just about every single venue he'll play. Most every club he'll get booked ats standard mixer is a Pioneer DJM 2000 NXS.. the mixer he's using. I know the same ignorant people wont read this. If you had that sort of attention span you'd of realized your so called 'sets' sound like stir fried ass. But for anyone that was actually interested but didn't know exactly what was going on, ignore the grade school level comment section of haters. Reading this BOOK here still saved you some time.

[@bastarddonthemove]

Woooorddddd!!!!

[@bastarddonthemove]

Haterz gonna fade, the artist in the meanwhile enjoying his live/life

[@robertspectral303]

Just to respond to some of the comments by confused souls who don't quite understand. That might look like a lot of gear to you, but that's not a lot of gear. In a blog post some years back about the "death of the DJ", Cameron Marlow writes how one-man live electronic performances used to travel with something like 2 Alesis MMT-8 sequencers, an Emax 2 rack sampler, an Oberheim Matrix 1000 synth, a Waldorf Pulse + synth, a Boss SE-50, and perhaps as many as four homemade Filterboxes. If you look at any one of the many live performing DJ artists like Richie Hawtin or Chris Liebing, they both perform with two computers, one for running Traktor and one for running their DAW. The last time I saw a video of him, Hawtin's performance only appeared limited by having just 4 Traktor decks to feed his mix, and Hawtin is sort of a minimal style techno artist. As for anyone mentioning costs, if you want to talk about costs, Hawtin's Antelope Orion 32+ AD/DA converter costs $3,000, and his Model One mixer goes for $3,300; you could buy three DJM-900NXS2's for that much money. With Ableton at least (haven't used the NI DAW), there are powerful plugins that use too much CPU and are impractical for live performances. You can bounce these tracks ahead of time, then mix them together during your performance for the creative effect. With Ableton, you could load these stems in Session view and trigger them, but frankly, mixing the volume levels, even with Push 2, is nowhere near what you get with the D2s. The D2s are live having an extra 8 channel mixing board, only with hot cue markers, looping, and DJ Fx. Besides, what if you want to mix in something you have in your song library that you didn't load into Session view ahead of time?

[@DeluxeOmaha]

its not so much the gear, just the fact that he doesn't do anything with all that. it was lackluster and boring. Drum and Bass can be so rhythmless an repetitive, it's so suburban it's Hip Hop's boring suburban lame cousin. It doesn't matter how much equipment it's always going to be soulless, and drab.

[@gawdfatherr]

Decks, EFX & 909

[@interracial2564]

alot or not he aint doing shit with it

[@Daphoid]

Here here. And it's just gear! Great to see it used, but if you need 1 or 50 pieces to make your sound? Just keep working on making your sound! I own the Jam, Maschine, and Komplete Kontrol not because I want to show off with more gear, but because they each offer a different way to interface with sound. It's all a playground. Stop screaming from the side of the sandbox and jump in and make a castle people!

[@Envision_]

Really nice set. I enjoyed it a lot. I'm sorry that many musicians, both, male and female have to face so much hatred and evny when doing something good and sharing it with the world just because some individuals don't understand what they are doing or simply can't handle the fact that these musicians are getting the attention they deserve and they don't. It is right to be able to express criticism as long as it is construcive; even personal opinions like "I like it / I don't like it" are okay, even though these opinions are a bit too short and not particularly helpful when trying to engage people in a conversation. Many people here and I mean not only on this particular comment section but on many other videos of musicians here in KZbin are just nasty and offensive. They see someone doint a tutorial , ashowcase or a live set that they don't like for whatever reasons and they just start calling him/her names and belittering his/her work and saying nonsensical things like "this is not realy djing" etc. It's interesting to see that exactly these people fail to bring proof that they can do it better when asked to do so.

[@dnbunitedrecords]

This is exactly what im going for! so awesome making live performance and recording one in the same. Well done mate.

[@neohippie6737]

Really nice mini set. Love the details and the ever changing rhythm

[@Potterzilla]

I am dumbfounded at all the hate on the amount of equipment he has, yall really care that much about equipment? This set was amazing and I would LOVE to own all that, especially that virus TI

[@Envision_]

Absolutely. It is pathetic. Specially this Curlee Brazell individual is very hateful and envious.

[@interracial2564]

i love the equipment but hate what hes doing with it

[@EINRiDI-official]

I own a JAM and a Mikro MK3. Really great tools to work with.

[@removedd]

Insane performance, absolutely awesome work Icicle! Love how you bring each section together in the mix and focus on bringing a moving energy.

[@discojockeys]

Just came across this live set, it slaps hard! Well performed 🤘🏼🤘🏼

[@djzoologic]

Now that’s talent! Amazing set! I was a DJ in Detroit for many years and screw the haters! Y’all can’t even carry his record bag...

[@stationofdreams1241]

Great performance. The work he puts into it is amazing.

[@interracial2564]

yes for a 2 year old

[@ThatDonutGuy]

Very impressive, nice work.

[@jasonversatile9807]

This is fantastic....Big up Icicle. :)

[@andrewhoward6687]

This is awesome🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾

[@wernerhaider2338]

master tempo and polyrhythms are the natural enemies of the digital recreator. Greetings from Vienna! WUF- Electronic Tuba Music

[@benoitpeeters7511]

Nice setup! I'm building up my "Native" environment too... I got Komplete Kontrol Mk2, buyin now a Traktor S4.... Adding a Kork Minilogue to the setup for fun.... Trying to make all theses working together! :)

[@louisx9350]

how is everything connected? thanks for answer!

[@Isthisbad]

Wow!!! Like a noisia radio))

[@drewjamesfullwood2879]

Awesome!

[@hifianimals9156]

💣💥💯

[@chillitronics6154]

great 1

[@malikmagus]

Innovative soundscapes. Ill shit for sure! I like what he actually uses the D2's for. PROPS!

[@flashgord2007]

love the video perfection how do set up this i have 2x studio 2x jams kontrol s25 and traktor DJ WITH RELOOP RP8000 Z2 MIXER DO YOU USE LINK OR OTHER WAY FOR LIVE SETS PLZ GIVE SOME LOVE . DJFREECAN GRIME IS MY FAVORITE DN B

[@soundboy605]

Anyone know whether he's running one computer or two one for tractor and the other for Maschine ?

[@chillitronics6154]

with windows so fkn hard to synch them all...i have been trying to conect the S8 with maschine studio and Jam all into traktor 3 ...using jackrouter but the somehow it wont work properlly can any tell me a easy way...with mac it seems super easy...

[@ArthurRainbow]

The link after "find out more" is broken

[@sciencewithgranny5621]

Yo wots the song at 3:00 ?

[@davidjulianlaufs]

Hello realy awsome set up! 🥳 I have a question.... I've booted the Komplete Kontrol software "Komplete 12" with a S49 into a Traktor Pro 3 Live Input Deck. Works great but the software Komplete Kontrol does not receive the Midi Clock or does not sync to Traktor. Can not the Komplete Kontrol software be set to "slave" Midi Clock receiver, as the machine software is !? At least there is no selection box as with the machine software under preferences "Midi" "input". Question is there are other possibilities? Special hardware or software etc.? Or how do you did it? There is a smal Hardware in the Video but the Name is taped ☺️ can anyone help me? Thanks in Front. 🙏🏼

[@AchillesxHeal]

Can jam be used to control ableton live while the mk3 control maschine 2 vst in ableton? Or are they intertwined? Like if jam goes in midi mode, does the mk3 do so as well?

[@DONPTV]

can you please tell me how to link up Maschine studio with Traktor kontroll mk3, I cant suss it out.

[@kenzai100]

Just can't believe that

[@crwn_munkz]

Damn is that track on min 1:15 available somewhere!??? Shit is sick!

[@Jimmyknapp2]

Half the fun I've realized is getting everything to work, let alone eliminate hum and get everything synced. Not shown: hours of practice getting everything plugged in and working.

[@TRKYDICKINSON]

YOU ALL RIGHT MATE .. IF HAVE TO ASK , I HOPE YOU DONT MIND , ERMM AND SORRY AND EXCUSE MY IGNORANCE IF , ERMMM ALL THAT , THEM TUNES ETC .. IS YOU MAKING THEM ETC .. OR WHATEVER ELSE YOU DO WITH ALL THAT EQUIPTMENT .. :) I LOVE NATIVE INSTRUMENTS . I HAD S2 , S4 , S5 … BUT SOFTWARE WISE .. I THINK THERE …. WELL OUT THERE …. THUMBS UP BERLIN I SAY :) , ANYWAY … I JUST WANDERED WHATS THE TUNE MATE AT ABOUT 3 MINS 07 IT COMES IN , ERM DROPS SHOULD I SAY . :) IF ITS YOU , ALL MADE ETC .. WELL DONE , REALY GGOD BUT , HAVE FUN AND , IL KEEP ENJOYING THIS THEN HAVE A LIL MIX MESELF . :) TAKE CARE THOUGH .. RICHY :)

[@joestacey1026]

whats that little white box in the corner

[@marcowongso]

Virus TI snow

[@Stelan1999]

Pleaaaase get out Traktor PRO 3

[@DJMaschinen]

Sehr gute Musik... ich kann nicht einstellen Maschine und traktor zusammen stream in Obs Studio.

[@bastarddonthemove]

Install soundflower, set it up,correctly (your soundcard has to be included in the aggregated device (audio/midi setup) Open maschine as vst in ableton, route traktor into ableton (look on yt for this), then on your master in ableton use external audio effect and route the output to soundflower, and then in obs get all the sound in by setting your audio to soundflower, probably not clear enough explained, but broke my head on this so this is my 2cents peace

[@DJMaschinen]

@@bastarddonthemove tnx

[@djjas764]

back and neck pain surely soon... damm...

[@maya-xk9ud]

how much all these cost?

[@griffgoldsteinreference]

Maschine MK3: $600 Maschine Jan: $400 Komplete 49 MK2 $600 Traktor Kontrol D2 x 2: $798 Access Virus TI Snow: $1200 Pioneer DJM-900NXS2: $2199 Mac Mini: $499 MacBook Pro: 1,149 Traktor Software: $99 Not sure what the reverb device above the virus is called but I’d assume it’s around $500 but getting in this business is not cheap but trust me it’s rewarding if you have the drive and passion

[@maya-xk9ud]

thank you!!

[@interracial2564]

over kill he does need all that He aint even using it right ne way

[@canaldoplayback3546]

quanta parafernalha que fica até perdido kkkkkk

[@dottiedekee7260]

Please stop messing up beginners cause everyone showing you to produce and on and on yall dont do step bt step we lose I cant do anything when I dont know where to go to get it

[@YVS9419]

omg guys just enjoy the music, shut up all your mouth...., if he wants to buy 10000 maschine is his "problem" not yours so let him make music...

[@DeluxeOmaha]

Oh my god guys, just enjoy this wack shit! we don't know anything about your culture or the art please don't call us out for being button pushers and nob turners!

[@DeluxeOmaha]

Ha! you had to go with monkey? Even your racism is boring.

[@DeluxeOmaha]

As a cool white white man you, wouldn't refer to another human as less than human. But you weren't so cool after all, now were you?

[@DeluxeOmaha]

I suggest you step into oncoming traffic.

[@interracial2564]

you fucking call that music? lol Youre as lame as he is. Noisemaker destroyer of worlds

[@DDONNRICARTUR]

I don't understand why so much equipment. The two maschines are way MORE than enough.

[@anaphylastiks]

called too much money. There can not be many live synth vst running with only one laptop. I will listen through and see, if I can break it down.

[@anaphylastiks]

I think is just a show off of the gear. He is basically DJing with traktor and everything else seems premade like one could do with any DAW. These days, "live" should be manipulation of multiple synths and drum machines live, That is the whole point.

[@karllongden4011]

i use two maschine studio and maschine Jam which designed for performance as it's interface is user friendly and and allows access to different parameters which normal maschines doesn't . such as morphing etc... .simples :)

[@DDONNRICARTUR]

Karl Longden Ok man. If you're happy with the results and you're feeling comfortable with the workflow it's OK. But it seems like you're lack of hands 😉

[@karllongden4011]

lol even have time to mess about with my korg ms20 and other synths whilst mixing .. thats the perfection of the set up you jam creatively with yourself iwish i was an octopus .. more hands needed :)

[@dionysiaex5538]

The capitalist music complex which tells you that music is gear. Ignorant philosophy!

[@kharyfinch]

missed that in the demo.

[@mmc5261]

Some much tek with so little vision, the story of our generation, but the set up and is knowledge of the tools is to be respected

[@ToHonestDom]

I'll pass👌🏾

[@interracial2564]

the guy in the video you showed me isnt doing much with all that equipment he has and and a lot of fake knob turning what a waste. All he is basically doing is using stems on the d2 and que triggering on the maschine jam

[@interracial2564]

and very little at that

[@fractalman8064]

All that equipment and THAT's the best you can do? What the hell happened to music? Skills, but no vision...

[@interracial2564]

dont care*

[@DeluxeOmaha]

He could have saved a lot of electricity by doing this all on Ableton, on just the laptop. This dude has no idea of what he is doing. That's a lot of money spent to be a poser.

[@_Gustav027_]

damn so much hate...SMH. The personal frustration is real lol

[@DeluxeOmaha]

not really hate this shit is lame.

[@Envision_]

and what does this have to do with constructive criticism or is it just a way to show your envy?

[@interracial2564]

yes yes and yes I thought i was the only one seeing this

[@interracial2564]

i have the most of what he has he aint doing shit with it the guy in the video isnt doing much with all that equipment he has and and a lot of fake knob turning what a waste. All he is basically doing is using stems on the d2 and very little que triggering on the maschine jam