I found on websites the list of all the Chemical Brothers Gear, then i searched pics and informations on this stuff on the net. Then i tried to see what they use during their lives. I did this thing :



http://nintendold.fr...s_live_gear.jpg



here you can see their gear :

a Doepfer MAQ 16/3 Sequencer, with a Korg Mono Poly under

a Roland Jupiter 6

2 Akai S6000 Sequencers, other sequencers but i can't see what they are, and the G3 MAC (or maybe G4)

a Korg MS50

another Doepfer MAQ 16/3 Sequencer with something under but i don't know what.

Here it is for the background stuff, now the foreground stuff :

a red thing that i don't know

an Octave Cat synth

a Roland Juno-106 Synth

a Mackie mixer

the famous Akai MPC 3000

an Octave Kitten (the one that Tom takes at the end of TPPR :D)



if you have things to add, you're welcome ;)

Dude where are the 303's?

the what :-? :-?

The Roland MC-303.

NO!! NOOOOO!!! YOU ARE SO WRONG!!! HERESY!!



That's the crappy remake of the GOD that is the Roland TB-303.









^ The real deal responsible for "Electronic Battle Weapon 7"

:o

So nice I'm gonna say it twice.

Pleeeeease forgive me. :'(

is the Roland TB 303 on the lives ?

I really would like to understand how they work on live performances, which machine does each sound, etc...

Anyone knows ?

For the record, the MC-303 is not a remake of the TB-303.



TB-303: Crazy acid machine. Supposed to have been an analogue bass line synthesizer (ie. emulate a bass player) but is terrible at that job (well, I kinda like it's odd funkinesss). Someone somewhere discovered it makes fucked up noises. Acid house is born.



MC-303: A late 90's developed "groovebox." Basically, an all-in-one machine with multiple synth and drum tracks, as well as effects, etc., blahblahblah. A beginner's hardware dance studio. Not that great, according to what I've read, at least not compared to the successor MC-505 and especially the MC-909 (which even looks scarily cool in person). Still, not an attempted remake of the TB-303, although it does have a digitally sampled TB-303 sound set in its memory (along with all the cool Roland drum machines of the 80s.)

I don't think they use a TB-303 live or otherwise. They use Rebirth, a very close software emulation of the 303.



This is my post from another thread that had pics of their gear from a gig in Brazil, Oct 2004 (thread is here. Your first post cleared up a few things, so I've edited mine to include that info

For those gear heads out there like me, I can see:



1st pic:

* Doepfer MAQ 16/3 sequencer (the one I think I saw Ed trigger for the Music: Response riff)

* Roland SH-101

* Roland Jupiter 6



2nd pic:

* 2 x Akai S6000 samplers

* A keyboard with a broken key on top of that sampler rack (is this the mono/poly?)



3rd pic:

* Same as 1st pic plus Octave Cat

* Roland Juno 106 (During HBHG on the DVD, you can see Ed play an organ chord at the very beginning of each major buildup on this synth)



4th pic:

* Another Doepfer 16/3

* Korg MS2000r

I don't think it's a Korg mono/poly next to the Doepfer - it's definitely the SH-101. Dunno about the computer too... are you sure it's a g3 computer? Could just be a power pack or something. I know they used to use a G3 in their studio ages ago, but I don't think they use a computer live...

The Doepfer MAQ 16/3 hypnotize me... lol

It's fun to see all those red leds, and that's easy to know which sound is playing the Doepfer when u listen to the music. The upper row must be playing beats because it only has 2 or 3 leds lighting.

Ed is often triggering them.

I've juste found something which seems to be like a TB-303 on FruityLoops : the TS 606. It makes wicked sounds :P

I've just been watching the Fatboy Slim/Chemical Brothers Red Rocks DVD, and it looks like the keyboard with the broken key on top of the sampler rack is the Korg MS-20. Ed also plays a Roland Octapad during TPPR! The red synth could be a Nord Modular....



So now we've got:



2 x Doepfer MAQ 16/3 sequencer

2 x Akai S6000 samplers

Roland SH-101

Roland Jupiter 6

Roland Juno 106

Roland Octapad

Korg MS-20

Korg Mono/Poly

Korg MS2000r

Octave Cat

Octave Kitten

Mackie Mixer