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From a live set I saw the other night. I make out so far;

- Yamaha mixer (poss. an MG series?)
- Electribe ESX
- Dave Smith Evolver

No idea on the cream coloured drum machine (?) (thought it was a Roland but not sure) and the yellow box next to the Evolver.

Yellow box is DSI Mopho desktop. Mixer is defo an Yamaha MG series. That tan box sure does look like Korg to me. Before I saw you'd named most of the boxes I was going to type something about giving us a challenge ;p

fragments wrote:Yellow box is DSI Mopho desktop. Mixer is defo an Yamaha MG series. That tan box sure does look like Korg to me. Before I saw you'd named most of the boxes I was going to type something about giving us a challenge ;p

Looks like it could be a Mopho, but still looks different (from the ones ive seen). Maybe an older unit?

Crimsonghost wrote:

fragments wrote:Yellow box is DSI Mopho desktop. Mixer is defo an Yamaha MG series. That tan box sure does look like Korg to me. Before I saw you'd named most of the boxes I was going to type something about giving us a challenge ;p

Looks like it could be a Mopho, but still looks different (from the ones ive seen). Maybe an older unit?

It's got replacement knobs and a custom box. I own a Mopho ;p I can clearly see all the knobs on the unit, plus the screen is in the right place. I'm up for being proven wrong, but I'm 100% on this lol.

Any ideas on the Roland/Boss looking drum machine front and centre?

wub wrote:Any ideas on the Roland/Boss looking drum machine front and centre?

I'm asking the hardware heads on IDMf right now for you wub. I just spent 30 minutes googling it...I have no clue.

Also looks like an Akai MPC500 in the background as well

Not worried about anything further than the Korg, that's all from the previous PA.

fragments wrote:

Crimsonghost wrote:

fragments wrote:Yellow box is DSI Mopho desktop. Mixer is defo an Yamaha MG series. That tan box sure does look like Korg to me. Before I saw you'd named most of the boxes I was going to type something about giving us a challenge ;p

Looks like it could be a Mopho, but still looks different (from the ones ive seen). Maybe an older unit?

It's got replacement knobs and a custom box. I own a Mopho ;p I can clearly see all the knobs on the unit, plus the screen is in the right place. I'm up for being proven wrong, but I'm 100% on this lol.

That makes sense. Ive been wanting one of those things for a long time, the small footprint would be perfect for my setup.

Also, follow up question;

What's being used as controller? I might be having a blonde moment, but in a pure hardware setup would you not need a controller keyboard to trigger the Mopho et al?

wub wrote:Also, follow up question;

What's being used as controller? I might be having a blonde moment, but in a pure hardware setup would you not need a controller keyboard to trigger the Mopho et al?

The black and tan box is a Yamaha DX 200, FM groovebox with PCM drum parts (thanks to IDMf gear heads!)

As to sequencing the Mopho. It's more than likely one of the grooveboxes (either the Korg or Yamaha). I sequenced my Mopho with an ESX keyboard part.

fragments wrote:

wub wrote:Also, follow up question;

What's being used as controller? I might be having a blonde moment, but in a pure hardware setup would you not need a controller keyboard to trigger the Mopho et al?

The black and tan box is a Yamaha DX 200, FM groovebox with PCM drum parts (thanks to IDMf gear heads!)

fragments wrote:As to sequencing the Mopho. It's more than likely one of the grooveboxes (either the Korg or Yamaha). I sequenced my Mopho with an ESX keyboard part.

So how do you 'play' different notes on it if there is no keyboard?

^The step sequencer is a one octave keyborad. Look at the keys, they are a pattern of black and white steps that mimic a keyboard. Also, you can program whatever notes you want per step (this is a pain in the ass, but if you set it up before hand no worries!). I think the newest ESX/EMX have a 5 octave range. I never did anything too complex...just like straight up 4x4, Breaks or simple dubstep beats, real raw dancefloor tunes. With the Electribe you can link "songs" so the performance will run on it's own pretty much, you just tweak FXs and mute things etc...but you can also link Mopho patches to program changes I think (pretty sure I had it set up that way)...so you don't even have to switching Mopho patches.

Actually an ESX/EMX plus an external synth is a pretty powerful live PA setup...all that stuff laid out in that photo of yours...could be a pretty banging setup.

Who was playing all that stuff?

test recordings wrote:Who was playing all that stuff?

Svengalisghost at the LIES showcase I went to last week.

Wub you thinking of building a live pa act or just curious about this for jamming at home?

fragments wrote:Wub you thinking of building a live pa act or just curious about this for jamming at home?

Just jamming at home, for now

wub wrote:

fragments wrote:Wub you thinking of building a live pa act or just curious about this for jamming at home?

Just jamming at home, for now

Nice. I think I may have asked before, but what is your jamming/hardware setup these days?

fragments wrote:

wub wrote:

fragments wrote:Wub you thinking of building a live pa act or just curious about this for jamming at home?

Just jamming at home, for now

Nice. I think I may have asked before, but what is your jamming/hardware setup these days?

ATM;

• Electribe ER-1
• Redsound Darkstar
• Kaossilator
• Monotron Delay
• Chimera BC-8
• Midiverb 3
• Alessis 3630

However am still in the very early stages of understanding how everything talks to itself

Nice. I loved my Electribe...sold it to get Maschine...I don't regret Maschine and would sell the ESX for it again...but damn Electribes are fun! The Darkstar is a bit of an oddball if I remember correctly, how do you like it? That Chimera looks wild man...you have a great setup to do some kind of lo-fi / minimal cassette tape thing.

Unfortunately I'm down to the Mopho desktop and Maschine...but have got new monitors and a lot of processsing/dynamics gear recently.

Defo gonna pre-order one of those Korg Volca Beats boxes at the end of the month though.

PS. I love the Monotron Delay!