What equipment the top producers use to deliver their music live

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What equipment the top producers use to deliver their music live

What gear do headline dj’s and producers use to deliver their performance?

Debunking the set up of a well known live act can be the gateway to creating or improving your own. Digital music dude Buttons&Knobs spent some time researching what goes into putting forward a headline festival set performance and as a result discovered what the likes of Skrillex, Deadmau5 and Daft Punk are hiding up their on stage.

Take a look into the technology heavy producers creative world and how they go about delivering their sound!

Skrillex

Skrillex

Computer: Apple MacBook Pro
Software: Native Instruments Traktor
Controllers: Pioneer DJM-800 Mixer/MIDI Controller
Other: 4 CDJs and a Traktor Audio 2 DJ Interface

Flying Lotus

Flying Lotus

Computer: Apple MacBook Pro
Software: Ableton Live, Max For Live
Controllers: M-Audio Trigger Finger Drum Pad or Akai MPD32 Drum Pad, monome 40h grid controller (8×8), Novation ReMote 25SL MIDI Keyboard

Bassnectar

Bassnectar

Computer: 2 Apple MacBook Pros
Software: Ableton Live
Controllers: Custom 60Works Controllers
Other: Allen & Heath Xone:92 Mixer, 2 PreSonus Audio Box USB Interfaces

Has ditched the twin triggers and now messed with 2 x Custom 60Works Controllers

Pretty Lights

Pretty Lights

Computer: 2 Apple MacBook Pros
Software: Ableton Live, Max For Live
Controllers: 1 x Akai MPD32 Drum Pads, monome grid controller (8×16)

Deadmau5

Deadmau5 (2011/2012 set up)

Computer: Apple MacBook Pro
Software: Ableton Live, Max For Live
Controllers: Native Instruments Maschine, monome grid controller (16×16), JazzMutant Lemur Touchscreen Controller, Pioneer EFX-1000 Controller
Other: Allen & Heath Xone:4D Mixer, Apogee Ensemble Audio Interface

Now has a studio at his finger tips for his live shows, running multiple synthesizers, a 24-track mixer, 2 Native Instruments Kontrol X1 Controllers and various hardware effects

Daftpunk

Daft Punk

Computer: “custom super-computers” – this is how Daft Punk describes it, although they have been seen performing with 4 MacBook Pros in front of them (presumably a main computer and a backup for each person). However, it wouldn’t seem too farfetched for a large electronic act to invest in custom hardware and software.
Software: Ableton Live
Controllers: 2 Behringer BCR2000 MIDI Controllers, 2 JazzMutant Lemur Touchscreen Controllers
Other: 4 Minimoog Voyagers

We’ll see hopefully soon what the robots will be using live!

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