Steve Rachmad Studio Walkthrough & Workflow + Live Jam | Thomann

[@anthonyrothercom]

Steve is a great guy and a great artist.

[@clubbersguidenewyork9]

Steve is the main reason I got into techno and djing! I hunted down the owner of the track- Photogene by Steve! We became friends and I eventually booked him in NYC❤️ Amazing dj and producer and humble artist❤

[@phrank808]

respect. i really like steve's non pretentious behavior - even with some iconic 70/80s toys around. great productions like always.

[@dedicato8964]

what he's saying about not cutting every strange freq from your synth but let them play and give some organic vibe to your composition is such an holy true that all this "mixing-tutorials" just miss out .. true legend

[@shamuscoghlan4559]

Steve has always been one of the best producers and his tracks sound full and dynamic on the dance floors. That hardware/analog thing with subtlties. As he said he doesn't compress much and filter the heck out of things this is likely what gives it that movement. I subsribe to a similar theory in my productions as less is more and why go through all the effort of recording an analog drum machine only to compress it and loose that subtle variation that makes it move. IT is about the combination of the gear working together that makes a special modulation that is so often lost these days.

[@powerdove]

Agreed, I love the dynamics in his music. A bit of bus compression is all I really have on my drums (for techno anyway)

[@shamuscoghlan4559]

@@powerdove I rarely hit 2bus with compression but sometimes a single track or component. Kicks maybe a parallel if I am going for a certain sound. I think what we both agree on is music, or at least techno needs a modulation. Ron at NSC (RIP) who mastered most of the early Detroit Techno Labels including Richie Hawtin was a big endorser of such techniques. Yes Limiters are compressors to for those who missed that memo :D

[@AmbientHermitage]

Love the philosophy of music being all about feeling! I can definitely relate to that!👍🤟

[@Ikon_Sound]

Steve has a great attitude to it all, pleasure watching and listening to this interview 👌🏼

[@CaptainZuurpruim]

Steve looks to me like a very likeable person and is very down to Earth. I like that attitude. His tracks, and I am talking mainly about his older Outland stuff, is very very creative melodically, which I love! Anyway, Steve if you read this, don't go into the digital/DAW if you can avoid it, your "oldskool" way of recording is a blessing.

[@freakgdj]

Master Steve! amazing person and a great dj and producer

[@ThomannSynthesizers]

second this :)

[@brunovalente2077]

What a lovely studio setup.

[@ok_tony9333]

Beautiful person Thanks for sharing this precious notes Big up Steve ✊🏼

[@bergsonist-official]

so inspiring thanks Steve, love your music a lot. It's so true feeling the music is the most important thing when making music..

[@Kevin-im1gj]

Absolute legend, with the best advice about music. It's about the feeling

[@wehbba]

Legend 👏

[@_zhenitch_]

Legend

[@cryptout]

Great producer that made some real classics and will create many more. Also for me the one of the best techno djs, up to par with Derrick May.

[@riverthinman4782]

One of my favorite artists with an amazing contribution to electronic music.

[@internalreality]

Absolute legend

[@Cybercowboy_69]

Great advice from the 🐐. Feel it. Don’t see it with the perfect spectrum analysers and visual stuff. It’s music. More important what you hear than what you see.

[@808pacificstate]

Steve, you are an 👽. We ❤️ so much. Don’t ever change!!

[@Robert_Babicz]

:-) great

[@robvbeats]

Super Inspiring! SteveRachmad..Best wishes~

[@mistertamura6190]

The reason this guy is on my map is mainly [Sitting on Clouds] from the Secret Life of Machines album.

[@CausaliDox]

That was a fun video! Also very interesting to see someone who (used to have) has the same workflow as me. I have a large hardware setup that is sequenced with a Cirklon, coming in on my large Soundcraft console. I mix the track as I'm creating it and I record a live take as the final track (stereo track through RME interface into Wavelab). Very recognizable hearing you talk about fuck-ups requiring a new take and the danger of losing the vibe of the earlier take. I have accepted this as part of the way I work and the ephemeral nature of the moment. Of course total control would be interesting, but what that workflow would require has frustrated me a lot in the past. I used to sequence from Cubase, bounce every track and mix ITB, but I got so frustrated using the computer that I even contemplated selling the whole studio and quitting music. Luckily I was able to transition into hardware sequencing and the last 6 or 7 years have been the most fun I have ever had making music. Also, for some reason only when I started mixing on a console, my mixes finally started to come together. For some reason there was this brain-body connection that happened while mixing on a console, that never happened for me when mixing ITB. Feeling the music, absolutely! I have to be emotionally affected by my own music. I also agree with the idea that there is some sort of life in (vintage) hardware that imbues some sort of warmth, or even a bit of chaos into the sound of the track, which opens it up, brings it to life. Very nice collection of vintage gear, you have, by the way! I'm curious to hear how you go about sequencing? I think I heard you mention Live, as in Ableton Live? I would have expected to see a hardware sequencer somewhere... = ) Thanks for the video Steve and Thomann, one of the most fun and (for me) most recognizable studio tour videos I have ever seen!

[@thejuggler268]

Steve ik zag je op welcome to the future. Wat een setje weer. Deed me weer denken aan vroeger. Daarna dj bone. Was een heerlijke dag met lekkere beuktechno.

[@VNDM-MUSIC]

"in your head you had a much better take before than the one you're making now..." Precies dat.

[@mariopandza]

Mad respect for Steve!

[@daanbaas2962]

Nice video guys. And interesting to see that Steve seems to be such a laid back producer who is more about sound and music than technicalities.

[@ricobenavides]

Love this kind of videos. More plz.

[@simontappenden9179]

full connection with this

[@falangistavaleroso9689]

One of my idols

[@automationtraveler]

Loved this one

[@edgarvleeming7412]

Right on my man !!

[@totalnonsense6878]

Very nice to hear from you about your studio. Always wondered what synths you used on Asphyx. Particularly the rhythmic chord stabs. It’s such an amazing tune. 🙂

[@badlefthook624]

Steve, if you ever get to see this, have you ever used the microfreak in any of your tracks? I'd love to hear what kind of sounds a man of your talent could get out of that little synth.

[@aki_gong6271]

What a talented artist. It is a pleasure listening to him and learn about music with such passion. Thanks for sharing. It is always good accessing big artists studios :)

[@avantmidi1983]

Master Steve💪👌

[@mennovanwijk2967]

Great guy

[@michelvondenhoff9673]

Not familiar with his music but really like his gear 😊

[@pihenhenripi4430]

Super nice video !! Should be so so cool to see identified patient ´ studio !!!!

[@ThomannSynthesizers]

Maybeeee :)

[@alexmuller7634]

Yeeeaaahhh ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

[@obscuresoundz]

interesting to hear about others workflow

[@Atdmd]

Hi, great interview from the artistic and feeling point of view. I have a question for Steve. Always loved the chords and echoes that he did in tracks like Parallel 9 - Dominus. Could he talk about which instruments he used at that time? There is a certain magic on that sounds.

[@martinredfield6901]

Always a pleasure listen to Steve. What do you use for sequencing?

[@Jim_KYB]

Great video, and good to see one of the pioneers still so passionate about the music and gear. I have a question for Steve on the DRM-1. Do you use it regularly, and how do you find it? I have had one for a couple of years, but struggle to get it to sit in the mix because it's so clean and precise.

[@steverachmadofficial]

Hey Jim, honestly I haven't used it much. I was always a bit dissapointed in the kick. The other sounds are pretty nice. As a whole I think in sequencing it;s a bit shaky if I compare it to for example all older Roland's. Which are supertight always and all of them. DRM floats more. A bit like human feeling setting. But I have that with many analog drums. I guess because of being analog sounds and all having different attacks and envelopes, they float. No idea how Roland did it with their machines to make them so tight though

[@user-rv8wb1nl1b]

@@steverachmadofficial yes this , wise words . Kick is hard to dial in , midi triggering is also "analog" but it does have "a sound" and if treated its great !

[@hermannloens1868]

Steve is such a nice and friendly person! I have the question: Is there no PC in your studio? If so, how do you record & edit? Thanks in advance!

[@steverachmadofficial]

Hey guys, I do have mac book pro on the left of the ob8 on a small desk or in the hole in the middle of the rack. Usually just to run everything but it's indeed not the centerpoint of the studio like many have.

[@maticherzog]

Such a nice video:). A great example of a humble and great musician:)! Nice to see a clear setup with not to many machines but only the ones that are actually of use and function for oneself:). Dope effect rack thou, thats a crazy wall!

[@PooNinja]

I look good on that monitor, I need to try some different hats 👒

[@chrisvanco4694]

I agree on his feeling with the clones of classic synths ! The copies lack something, always, in some frequencies maybe, but the "soul" in it. Can't explain, just i had for exemple a Roland TR-808, had to sell it... :/ then i've tried the Behringer clone, it was close on KZbin, but in real, wasn't close from the dynamic you can have on the original. Even if some clones sounds good.

[@Conforce]

AMEN

[@Stroef1983]

Hi Steve are you releasing your jam? It sounds really good.

[@Daniel-ot8gg]

How does he sequence that live jam? daw or other gear?

[@steverachmadofficial]

I just played a quick bass and chord part midi for the video in ableton. Yeah, I noticed the video doesn't show my small desk in the corner. But it was because of space I think. Most of thr filming was done from that side

[@bigupz6818]

Awesome 👏🏼

[@kiangaste1255]

Curious to know what synth you used to create the pad sound in your unreleased track 'Light In The Darkness'. Any leads ? :)

[@steverachmadofficial]

That was actually from the time I switched from Atari to mac book pro somewhere 200? and was trying some ableton live packs to learn ableton and mac book. So, it's basically just a live pack, nothing fancy ;)

[@NNokia-jz6jb]

What was up with the monitors? I did not understand.

[@TeslaDanser]

Top fella. Would love to know how you came across Tir na nÒg for that track name

[@daviHuggMonster]

very vintage :)

[@Riy_sound]

💙

[@juanfontechavalderas4195]

Musica acuatica

[@kosmikmusa]

What are those small monitors on top of yamaha speakers?

[@drydessert4198]

Does anyone know the title of the track starting at 1:00 ending at 10:50 (arpeggios, no drums)?

[@compo36]

Steve Rachmad - Legacy of the lost world

[@drydessert4198]

@@compo36 thank you

Off: it looks like this is an apartment (and he said it's untreated) how is it possible he could make music and not interfere with neighbors?

[@NNokia-jz6jb]

I would like to know also.

[@christosmaragkos9820]

what is the track on the background? Sterac just

[@compo36]

Steve Rachmad - Legacy of the lost world

[@christosmaragkos9820]

@@compo36 thank you so much!

[@FlipHybrid]

acounting for inflation I think 750 gulden would be like 1300 euro nowadays haha (but yeah In theory 1 euro was like 2 gildens haha) how times have changed

[@LoveMeBack]

Legend