Daft Punk's Live setup

teknobryan · Post by **teknobryan** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:23 pm

Looks like they use FOUR Moog Voyagers and 2 Behringer BCR's.

Interesting

sweetjesus · Post by **sweetjesus** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:30 pm

i love the pic with the voyagers next to the behringers

teknobryan · Post by **teknobryan** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:32 pm

I'm actually kinda surprised they use real synths in their Live set. I thought they were using all software.

sweetjesus · Post by **sweetjesus** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:35 pm

teknobryan wrote:I'm actually kinda surprised they use real synths in their Live set. I thought they were using all software.

*hands you the soap and points at your mouth*

jer_mcclain · Post by **jer_mcclain** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:35 pm

um, so what do you suppose is triggering the Moogs? must be some computers backstage somewhere.

teknobryan · Post by **teknobryan** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:38 pm

Well I'm pretty sure they use laptops running Ableton Live. They just haven't arrived with them yet in the pic.

audio.android · Post by **audio.android** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 5:33 pm

Yeah, they have 4 laptops up there, all synced together, triggering all that stuff with MIDI and playing samples. That show was incredible. I'm going again in July.

hambone1 · Post by **hambone1** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 6:16 pm

I'm amazed that someone at that level uses Behringer equipment! I'm sure they've got backups, though.

Don't get me wrong... I love my BCR. I just don't feel I can rely on it like I can my Yamaha mixer.

teknobryan · Post by **teknobryan** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 6:25 pm

I'm more amazed that they use four Voyagers. I wonder why they didn't get 4 different synths? ...you know for more versatility in sound.

Is the Voyager just that awesome?

D K · Post by **D K** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 6:38 pm

hambone1 wrote:I'm amazed that someone at that level uses Behringer equipment! I'm sure they've got backups, though.

Don't get me wrong... I love my BCR. I just don't feel I can rely on it like I can my Yamaha mixer.

just goes to show you there are really limited choices as far as midi controllers go...
all that gear can be easily replaced if there are any problems...

Tarekith · Post by **Tarekith** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 6:39 pm

Would be funny if they were just routing audio through the voyagers for the filters

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teknobryan · Post by **teknobryan** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 6:45 pm

I've never seen them live but have watched and listened to the liveset on YouTube. There's just a handful of songs where there's an added and tweaked synth line (you know, obviously not just looped from the original Daft Punk song). I'm really surprised it is coming from the Voyager... it sounded more like an FM synth to me.

rbmonosylabik · Post by **rbmonosylabik** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 6:52 pm

Next thing you know the BCR shoots to $599 because of this pics

Tarekith · Post by **Tarekith** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 7:06 pm

My guess is they have two of everything (each) for backup, lots of famous bands that rely on computers do this. One system goes down and they can switch to the other instantly and keep going.

audio.android · Post by **audio.android** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 7:17 pm

Every review I've read with Daft Punk about that concert... they didn't mention anything about synths in their set-up. They just said "we had a bunch of MIDI controllers with back-lights so we could see the knobs"

So I wonder if they were maybe just using the voyagers as sturdy midi controllers?