underworld equipment?

[polar_action]

out of nothing but interest can anyone enlighten me as to what techno gear uw use for their live setups and that lovely beacoup blue desk......

i know that there is some macs and ableton live cause we saw some screen grab piccies before.... but any definitive thingy?

[lloyd]

You hear the Nord Lead a lot. That's one of the things that get people hooked to underworld.
I think that if you do a search you'll see that there are some topics about the equipment underworld uses on this board.
The pics were from the Prague concert and still can be found here http://www.skylineweb.cz/underworld/underworld.html

[Dirty0900]

Man, thats a pretty impressive set up

[Jan]

The Nord Lead is also mentioned in this article:
http://www.dirty.org/underworld/articles-uw.php?id=29

Akai MPC2000XL (x6!)
Akai S2000
Akai S3000
Akai S5000
Apple Mac running Logic (PowerBook laptops for live work)
ARP2600 (x2)
Boss CR-78
Clavia Nord Lead
Moog MultiMoog
Novation BassStation
OSCar
Roland JD-800
Roland Juno 106
Roland R-8
Roland TB-303
Roland TR-909
Roland VP-330
Yamaha CS1x (x2)
Yamaha DX7
Guitars

I'm wondering where they used the TB-303...?

[botkiller]

i've always wondered this myself, it was one of my major questions when UW would do shows and we could ask questions, etc.... on everything, everything it seems like they're running a big rack of effects gear, as you see Karl fooling with it a lot when he's doing vocals, etc.

I can tell in those pics quoted above that they're using ableton live, which has been getting increasingly more popular as of late.

I always wondered how it was that they did all the live mixing, I've not had the chance to see the boys live, but with the big mixing board in front of them it seems like they're running tons of signal and bringing it in and out as they wish.

I just keep telling myself that someday, someday, I'll see them live in another format than the dvd.

[lloyd]

They don't have that rig Karl used anymore, it contained (if my memory dosn't fail me) 2 akai samplers, some vocal FX + a channelstrip and a cdplayer. Now Karl has his own part of the mixingdesk + some gadgets and the pioneer cdplayer with the big jogdail on top. That's where those nice vocal samples come from

[Céj]

that blue mixing desk is a Midas Heritage 1000 (link)

i think the songs are still played with 2 synced iMacs with Logic and they only use ableton for smaller samples and loops

[King of Snake]

yeah I think that's about it. They used to run all the streams/loops from AKAI S5000 or 6000 samplers live, triggered by MPC's, but they switched to using direct 24 bit 48 Khz audio from the computers.
There's a Nord Lead in the livesetup, and two Quasimidi technox modules and of course a Roland TR 909. No TB303 in the live setup, but you can hear 303's being used on some of UW's early records.

There's a good article about the technicalities of the liveshow over here

[verbal]

Anyone know what's on the screen of the Mac on the left? The one with the large counter on it.

Also, I'm curious how they use the mixing desk with Live. Is the desk midi and Live just has all the parts ready for Rick to trigger? Are parts programmed very basic in Live and Rick has the main controls?

[Renze]

I think I saw an Access Virus C (?) in an Underworld pic once. I think it was a pic of Karl's home studio (?)