Managing a set

[Mecanique22]

Hi everybody and first, sorry for my english (i'm french)

I'm learning Live for three years, and now i'm trying to find my own way to manage my sets, for playing live.

I know that there are so many ways to use Live, and all can be good, according to the balance between the improvisation and a total control of your sounds.
Anyway i would be very interested in knowing your ways to do, if you want.

One of the good guys i follow for that is Nicolas Jaar. I really love the way he manages his music.
I know that he used to play with a lot of tracks, in a diagonal way. Almost each sound has his own track, and he keeps midi tracks.
But i'm stuck, i don't really understand how he launchs his clips/scenes, and that's a point i'd really like to understand.

-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUjWumGIqe8
I understand a lot of things he does here, except one big thing : do you have a idea of the purpose of the green buttons of his controller he pushs?
Do you think it's mapped to "play track"? "stop track"? "on/off tracks"? "launch a group of tracks"?
Knowing he also uses routed tracks, maybe something with the "audio to", "audio from", or monitoring?

other lives, and the same thing : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qauomgfeQkQ , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9Ldafw-_lc

If someone has an answer, or a good tip to launch clips when you have a lot of tracks, he will have all my admiration

[Warmonger]

Do you think it's mapped to "play track"?

Whatever he does, you will certainly need such button in your setup

It's not really the question about what the guy did, it's a question about what YOU want to do, in what style, on what pace. How much improvisation and how much prepared content. How much hardware support and how much manual control. What kind of hardware setup you want and need.

[Mecanique22]

I totally agree with you!

I forgot to say that i mostly use a novation zero sl mk2, and he uses the same controller in many festivals, but with a very different mapping, that's why i was intererested.
Finding my better way of launching clips/tracks/activate tracks in a big set is the last thing i need to do to feel comfortable on stage.

I think i need to learn more about all kind of midi signals...