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Jul 15, 2026
Input / Output: Noémi Büchi
Input / Output is a semi-regular series where artists show how they make music using Ableton Live, Push, Move, or Note, and share easy-to-follow tips and a free download.
Swiss-French artist Noémi Büchi operates at the crossroads of pop, orchestral romanticism and the world of soundtracks. Her third album, Exuvie, explores metamorphosis and the body – interweaving scattered electronic rhythms with electroacoustic layering. In an audio-visual context, Exuvie develops into an even more immersive experience. Key to Büchi’s live approach, Ableton allows her to intuitively reshape structured stems using dynamic routing and granular sampling techniques for fluid real-time performance.
“I use Ableton every day across different stages of my practice: for quick recordings, sound design, production, and especially developing and maintaining my live sets. It’s the central hub where ideas are captured, transformed and organised.”
“Because it’s so flexible, Ableton allows me to build a highly customised working environment that adapts to my compositional and performative needs. If you understand its deeper possibilities, it becomes less a DAW and more an instrument or a smart routing system.”
Download Noémi Büchi’s Exuvie Live Set for free
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“I’m sharing an Ableton Live Set that reflects the core structure of my live performance and recording system. It focuses on how I organise routing, sends and automation, as well as how I categorise instruments and sound materials. I chose this set because it represents how I actually work most of the time, both in live performance and the early stages of production.
The set demonstrates a clear routing architecture: from the group-based signal flow to dedicated send structures and the integration of external instruments alongside software tools. In particular, sends are not treated as static effects, but as performative spaces that I can actively play and modulate.”
Noémi Büchi – I Was Almost There
“The Live Set includes stems from the first track of my latest album ‘Exuvie’. However, they‘re presented in a simplified way, reflecting a slightly different use case within the same system – one that’s more linear with clear stems and less oriented toward improvisation.
A key aspect is the balance between pre-composed material and real-time transformation. I work extensively with sampling, resynthesis and granular processes, allowing fixed material to remain fluid and continuously evolving during performance.”
What stands out for me is how immediate the workflow is. Ableton allows me to work quickly and intuitively, which is essential to my practice because it allows me to reduce friction between idea and execution - something I heavily rely on when working with complex sound materials.”