That Kraftwerk gear list .

[No4PCs]

Hi friends, here a gear list of instruments used by Kraftwerk

New equipment used in concerts in 2002 included:

- 3 NEC projectors
- 4 Sony VAIO laptops
- Cubase SX sofware

In recent years Ralf and Florian have established links with German manufacturers Doepfer
(particularly in respect of their MAQ 16/3 Analog / MIDI sequencer and Quasimidi Quasar synthesiser found great favour with Kraftwerk).

Equipment for the 1998 world tour included:

- Nord Lead 2 synthesiser
- Studio Electronics SE1
- optical drives
- four Kawai K-5000 synthesisers
- Quasimidi QM-309 Rave-o-lution synthesiser
- Tascam DA-88 8-track digital audio recorder
- 4 Roland mixers
- Doepfer Regelwerk MIDI Fader Box / Sequencer
- 2 Doepfer MAQ 16/3 sequencers
- Doepfer Schaltwerk sequencer
- Doepfer A-100 modular synthesiser
- Doepfer MMR4/4
- miniature MIDI keyboard custom-made by Doepfer
- Doepfer LMK2 master keyboard (customised)
- Waldorf Microwave
- Boss SE50 effects processor (at least 4 of these)
- 4 Akai samplers
- Robovox (see 1990 entry below)
- laptop computer
- Eventide effects processor
- Sony disk drive
On the 1986 album Electric Cafe:

- a Linn LM-1 Drum Machine was used on album Electric Cafe but only on the first 2 tracks (Boing Boom Tschak, Tecno Pop) and then on the title track (Electric Cafe). Musique Non Stop was a Roland TR-808. (Tracks 1 and 2 were a mixture of the LM-1 (kick, detuned handclap, and pitched up LM-1 tambourine), the LinnDrum (snare #23, and the metallic clanky percussion was provided by the E-MU Emulator2. Electric Cafe has the LM-1 kick and LinnDrum snare #23. The Telephone Call is all LinnDrum.)
- an NED Synclavier provided resynthesized voices on the tracks Electric Cafe and Music Non Stop.

The 1981 Computer World tour included:

- a Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 synthesiser
- a Moog Minimoog synthesiser
- a Moog Polymoog synthesiser
- Texas Instruments Language Translator machine (for electronic voices, it has different language memory cards)
- Roland MC8 MicroComposer sequencer (although this was not used on any Kraftwerk records)
- Custom-built 32-step analogue sequencers by Matten & Wiechers
- Texas Instruments Pocket Translator
- Dubreq Stylophone (this is a small handheld 'synth' made in the 1960s, which operated via a stylus touching a metal keyboard, the original versions could not switch octaves; for the sounds of Pocket Calculator)
- Mattel BEEGEE mini keyboard

The calculator used to make sounds in the song Pocket Calculator was probably the Casio FX-501b. Some of the other sounds on this track were made using a
Mattel Bee Gees Rhythm Machine, a battery-powered keyboard released in 1978.

The following vocoders have been used by Kraftwerk:

- Roland SVC-350
- Roland VP-330
- Sennheiser VSM-201
- EMS 2000/3000/5000 series
- Synton 221 (unconfirmed)

Other equipment used by the band over the years includes:

- Hammond L-100 organ
- Hammond B3 organ
- Farfisa organ
- Rotor Sound
- Dynacord Echocord
- Dynacord Echocord Mini
- Eminent Amplifier
- Echolette Panorama Mixer
- Echolette Echocord Super
(see more models at http://www.el-me-se.de)
- Schulte Compact Phasing A
- Mutron Biphase
- ARP 2600 semi modular synthesiser (unconfirmed)
- ARP 2500 modular synthesiser (unconfirmed)
- ARP Omni 1
- Oberheim SEM synthesiser (unconfirmed)
- Korg PS-3100 (used live by Karl Bartos)
- Korg PS-3200
- Korg PS-3300 (now owned by Karl Bartos)
- Texas Instruments TI-99a Computer with Speech Synthesizer cartridge
- Eventide H-910 Harmonizer
- Mattel Synsonics electronic drum
- Roland 100m modular synthesiser
- Simmons SDS-5 Drum Modules
- Triggersumme (a precursor of the Simmons SDS-6, a Matrix of 5x32 clocked switches which allowed Wolfgang Flür to program patterns of 2x16 or 1x32 steps, controlling either the Simmons SDS-5 or other rhythm units)
- Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer
- Doepfer A-100 modular synthesiser modules
- Doepfer MS-404
- Roland S-750 sampler
- Roland S-770 sampler
- Shure microphones

And a byke-chain too in this new album...

And nowdays they recording new album in their KlingKlang studio, this studio have no telephone , no fax...Some ppl think they building real robots to play , e.

[ozraves]

I'm not sure why this is in the moan zone. I love Kraftwerk. One of my definite favorites.