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DEPECHE MODE KEYBOARDS AND OTHER TECH STUFF
Compiled by Jaakko Suominen (jaakko at tuug dot fi)
Last updated: 24.9.2009
This file contains information on keyboards and other technical stuff DM used to use during their tours (and on Ultra album). Actually, I don't know anything about this stuff, so every correction and addition would be great!
Concerts during 1981:
1 Moog Source synth
1 PPG Wave 2.0 synth
1 TEAC A3440 Tape Machine (w/ D.B.Y. Unit)
1 REVOX A77 Tape Machine
+ some other stuff
Some shows in the beginning of 1982 (See You Tour):
Martin: PPG Wave 2.0 and a Yamaha CS-5.
Fletch: Moog Source
Alan: Roland Promars ( it's a monophonic JP-4, without the arp. and less keys. It also has CV/gate in and outs.) In the article named "The New Sythesizer Rock" (Keyboard Magazine 1982) the following equipments were listed: ARP2600, Moog Source, Roland Promars, Roland SH-1, Roland MC-4(early digital sequencer), Korg KR55 ( preset drum machine) Roland TR808 (programmable drum machine)
A Broken Frame Tour:
Alan: Roland Jupiter 8
Martin: PPG Wave 2.0)+ a small keyboard thing (! Martin's small keyboard had "Fairlite" (compared to the 100.000 USD Fairlight CMI sampler) written on the back of it
). The small keyboard could actually have been Yamaha thing (Yamaha 5), which guys used when they started playing synths.
Fletch: Moog source
Construction Time Again Tour:
Alan: Roland Jupiter 8 + Octave Voyetra8
Martin: Emulator I, Yamaha DX7
Fletch: Oberheim OB8
Daniel Westin (music producer / sound technician and artist) sent the following information: Alan Wilder plays on a Roland Jupiter 8 and a Octave Voyetra 8 Synthesizer Voyetra was in 83 when it came a very expansive and complex Analog synthesizer used by few artists. Few of them didn't even have the standard 5pin din port for midi, when used XLR (3pin) instead on almost all models. Voyetra was a two part Synthesizer, what means the synth was in Rack format and it had a external keyboard with 61 note remote keyboard, velocity and aftertouch (like a midi keyboard, but mutch better them we have to day.)"
Some Great Reward Tour:
Alan: Emulator II, Roland Jupiter 8
Martin: Emulator I, Yamaha DX7
Fletch: Oberheim OB8
Celebration Tour
Alan: Emu Emulator II, Korg DW 8000
Martin: Emulator II, PPG Wave 2.3
Fletch: Oberheim OB, two Prophet 2000 samplers
The triggers were traslated w/ a Roland Octapad and sent to Akai s900 samplers for the sounds.
Concert for the Masses Tour:
Alan: EmaxHD & DX7II triggering EmaxHD Rack for Spare
Mart: Same
Fletch: EmaxHD & DW800 trigering EmaxHD for spare
Percussion pads behind them played the Spare Emax Tascam 48 Tape (Main) Tascam 38 (Spare)
World Violation Tour:
Alan, Martin & Fletch: Two EmaxII turbo (Main & Spare)
All Pads and Alan's Mega Drums triggered EmaxII turbo rack (Became an Akai S1000 in Aus when the Emax died)
Two Tascam MSR16 Tapes (Main & Spare)
Devotional Tour:
This list of DM's keyboards (and other instruments) was printed in the magazine 'Musician', October 1993 issue.
Gear A La Mode
Depeche mode keeps things simple onstage: no amplifiers. Every sound, from keyboards to guitar to drums, runs through the P.A. system: a Brittania Pow Flashlight System.
David Gahan and the backup singers use Samson Synth radio microphones with EU 757 capsules.
Martin Gore plays a Roland A-50 and Alan Wilder plays an Akai MX1000, each controlling two Emulator Emax II samplers; Andrew Fletcher has another pair of Emaxes. Each pair is hooked up in parallel, so if one were to malfunction, the other is ready. But "I don't remember an instance when we had to go to a spare," says Wob Roberts, the keyboard technician. Samples come from strange and sundry sources, including old analog equipment.
The piano onstage is a Korg 01/W Pro X transplanted into a grand piano body. For downstage keyboards, Fletcher and Wilder use Philip MIDI line drivers.
Away from the keyboards, Gore plays either a Gretsch Country Gentleman or a copy of a Gretsch Anniversary guitar, strung with Gibson strings, from .010 to .046 gauge. Dick Knight copied Gore's original Gretsch for stage use, using Gretsch parts but adding more wood in the body to cut down on feedback.
Wilder's drums are mostly Yamahas: a 22" bass drum and 12", 13", 14" and 16" tomtoms. He uses Noble and Cooley piccolo and 7" snare drums and Zildjian K cymbals: a 22" ride, an 18" China, 16" and 18" crashes, a 6" splash and 13" hi-hats.
And don't forget the tapes: two Sony 3324's, one of them a spare. Of the 24 tracks, Depeche Mode only use 14, because many of the songs were dubbed from a 16-track Tascam that used 12 tracks for sound and four for sync. "As soon as anyone sees the size of the machines, they think the whole show is on tape," says Roberts. "But it's just bass and drum parts and a couple of sequences. This band does not mime."
Musical equipments used by DM on Ultra album
This list appears in the April 97 issue of Future Music (U.K. Publication) and was provided to them by Tim Simenon.
Synthesizers
ARP 2600 (x4)
Clavia Nord Lead
Korg Prophecy
Korg Trinity
MIDI Moog (x2)
Oberheim 4-Voice
Oberheim Matrix 12
Oberheim OB-8
PPG Wave 2.3
Roland JD-800 (x2)
Roland Juno-106
Roland Jupiter-8
Roland System-100M (x2)
Roland System-700
SCI Pro-One
Waldorf Wave
Modules
E-Mu Morpheus
E-mu Proteus 2XR
E-mu Vintage Keys
Korg M1R
Korg Wavestation AD
Oberheim MAtrix 1000
Roland JV-1080
Yamaha TX802
Sampling
Akai CD3000
Akai S1000 (x2)
Akai S1100
Akai S3200XL
Fujitsu 230 MO Drives
Kurzweil K2000R
Olympus 230 MO Drives
Effects
Boss pedals (various)
Eventide H3000SE
Lexicon PCM-70
Mutator Filter
Mutron Phaser
Mutron wah pedal
MXR Phaser
Roger Meyer distortion
Roland Dimension D
Sony HRMP-5
Zoom 9010
Sequencing
ARP 1615
Atari 1040 running C-lab Notator (x2)
Atari 1040 running Cubase
Hard Disk System
Apple Quadra 650 running Emagic Logic Audio
Digidesign 882 Interface
Digidesign SSD
Micropolis hard drive
Opcode Studio 4
Ricoh CD Writer
Other
Emerson UPS
Gretsch Anniversary Dobro
Resonator guitar
Groove Electronics MIDI 4 CV
Les Paul copy
Leslie Cabinet
Mackie 1604 (x4)
Mackie 3204
Roland MPU 401 MIDI/CV (x3)
Vox AC30
The Singles 86>98 Tour
Martin: Emax II, Gretch Country Gentlemen guitar (or/and Gretch 6118 AKA an Anniversary?>
Andy: Emax II
Extra keyboard player (Peter Gordeno): Roland A-90 and Roland JP-8000
The Exciter Tour
Martin:2 Yamaha CS6X, 63 Gretsch two tone Guitar (and something else? Or/and Gretch 6118 AKA an Anniversary?>
)
Andy:Yamaha CS6X & Yamaha CS2X, Roland A-90
Peter Gordeno: Roland A-80 (or A-50?) and Roland JP-8000 (the big "analog" synth riff on "I Feel Loved")
Also, 3 Akai S5000 samplers, for backup etc. perhaps.
At backstage an Apple PowerBook G4 and a PC for sequences and lightshow.
