The pieces in the rack referred to in this video as the computers are "Gefen CAT5-1000 KVM Extenders" no doubt this is what Thomas is referring to as the points for remote access to the "super computers" backstage. In the shots with ableton on the screens both look identical so I would guess they are using 2 identical systems with one run as the backup. I can't seem to find the monitors so I can't be sure they are just standard VGA sceens or if they are also touch screens.
You are absolutely right, there is an image that shows the units pretty clearly. Not sure what the monitors are, tho, most likely they are the "custom" part of their "custom-made super computers"
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I see two apple mouses to the right of the screens, so probably not touch screen. I'm no user myself but I'm guessing ableton isn't really touchscreen friendly anyways, no?
You can link ableton live instances to each other to stay in time over either MIDI or even things like RTP over an ethernet connection, so it's very likely they were just using two live sets.
I worked for Daft Punk/ Daft Arts in summer of 2007 helping gear up for North American tour. Their hq was in Los Angeles and I was hired by way of good reference who was a rigger on the tour. He also knew I was a huge Daft Punk fan. I basically worked as a runner for the tour managers / Guy & Thomas. A lot of my day trips while working with them included picking up and taking gear synths, controllers, etc to repair shops. Picking up sample pieces from Dior (If memory serves me- that’s who made their black leather tour costumes) and driving multiple trips getting their stage helmets and costumes electronics repaired. My first trip driving the gear, I just remember being in traffic on the 405 blasting Rollin & Scratchin and looking in the back seat with Guy and Thomas’ helmets and suits just sitting there. Was a surreal moment. One day I also helped move in some lightning and rigging to the sound stage they were working in. There, I assisted with building the stage setup. Stood in the pyramid. After it was complete I hung back with the lighting crew and they were going through the entire set from playback working on lighting cues, etc. Was the pinnacle of my life at that point. Was a 22 year old young man at the time!
Saw them in Amsterdam in 2007. The only downside of the show was that it was so mindblowingly incredible that I didn’t feel like seeing any other live act for at least a year. The encore alone was the best thing I’d ever experienced in live music (still is), and the entire show as an audiovisual whole was simply unparalleled and genuinely unforgettable.
I was there as well and still is the best performance I have ever seen. While standing there we knew we were watching something being a historical benchmark. This was an experience I will never forget.
same here. same memories as you! i feel blessed still, and thanks a billion to that one dutch promoter who called me and said 'my girl can't go, you want her ticket for DP Live'? i was like 'oh heeyellllzzzzyess! :-))))))
My first ever "BIG" concert / live show. It was 18+ and I had just turned 18 a few months prior. Lucky! Saw them in Brisbane, Australia. It was Summer '07-- hot, humid, and an absolute sweatbox. People who missed out on tickets had arrived early looking to score, asking those in the queue if they wanted $500+ for their ticket. They struggled. By then, videos had surfaced online from other shows earlier in the tour, and everyone knew how valuable a ticket to see Daft Punk live was. Priceless! I stayed up to midnight to buy tickets and they sold out in 5 minutes! Second-to-last show of their tour and they absolutely smashed it. Both audio and visuals were flawless. I couldn't believe that after a significant world tour they still had the energy to bang out this show. It was total euphoria from start to finish. Lots of tears in the crowd after. Everyone was on a perfect high, pure exhilaration and joy, and much hope for the future. Nothing else like it before or since, and it cannot be overstated how much this tour shaped live electronic music. All the big audio-visual electronic live shows you see today are rooted in what Daft Punk gave the world on the Alive 2007 tour. Once-in-a-lifetime experience.
So special reading this, especially from someone who lives where I do. I wish I was old enough to go see them back in 2007, but I've heard of so many people who said this was the very first show they ever saw. It sets the bar so high and so many electronic music live shows have taken inspiration from this (Justice, Madeon, Porter Robinson etc.) How does it feel knowing you saw one of the last ever Daft Punk shows?
@@cultfigureclub1 Bittersweet, but also very special and I hold the experience extremely close. Suffice to say, it definitely ruined me for live electronic shows! It's an extremely high bar to clear. The only thing that's on par these days is Aphex Twin's most recent live shows.
That new Aphex show he put on this year was so cool, and the music he curated for it was even better, I found so many incredible artists like Kavari, Blood of Aza, Shinra Knives, etc thru that show
@@cultfigureclub1 Absolutely! His live tracklists are second-to-none. Just some of the most off-kilter, ultra modern productions I've ever heard. Best place to start looking if you're after some beguiling music.
I saw the show in Melbourne that same tour. It will stay with me forever. I've had the pleasure of not only seeing most of my heroes play but also met and worked alongside many as a stage manager. Alive remains Top 3 performances ever alongside a 3 hour Bruce Springsteen epic where Tom Morello from Rage Against The Machine was on guitars due to Stevie shooting his TV show at the time, and a Massive Attack playing the hits then just going into a free-form post-rock insanity for about 20 minutes that I don't think anyone expected. Alive is still the best crowd of any event I've ever been to. Diverse, happy, appreciative and everyone was hugging strangers when they finished because despite being stone cold sober, it was a real "what the fuck did we just witness" kind of moment in time.
I literally snuck into this show 🤣in 2007 at Sam Boyd in Las Vegas I hoped the backstage fence with 1 other friend and we literally got to meet daft punk for 2 seconds as they went on stage they were high fiving people as they walked up the stage ramp it was a surreal moment and then I went with the press people in front area where all photographers guys were taking photos and got to watch the show from there I have some videos and photos of it taken on my old school blackberry phone haha I didn't know was even going to be so epic at the time my little 16 year old brain was totally blown away!
The lemur was special at the time because almost every other touch screen tech was single-touch only, they would wig out if you used two fingers and trigger a spot in between and generally just act like a computer mouse. The lemur was one of the few devices that had multi-touch capabilities, that and the Microsoft Surface, which at the time was a table with a projection screen in it that used an IR camera to see where your fingers were touching.
i remember when i heard about the first touchscreen phones, and thinking "yeah right... good luck with that" it's hard to explain just how incredibly shitty touchscreen technology was before the mid 00s.
A buddy dragged me reluctantly to the 2007 show at the Forum in Los Angeles, and it ended up being one of the greatest experiences of my life. Aside from the amazing sound and mindblowing visuals, the energy of the crowd was incredible. It was the greatest non-stop dance party of all time and everyone around me was absolutely having the time of their lives. Just pure joy.
Flew in the day of the show at red rocks, you could still get tickets at the door. The lead singer of the rapture said " prepare to see the have best experience in your life, better then your wedding day or having a child " He was right. Sebastain & Kavinsky djed in the middle of the crowd everyone was passing around champagne. Life changing experience, altered the course of my life and put me in my career today.
Saw that tour at Red Rocks amphitheater in Colorado. Absolutely epic, I will never forget it. Amazing that all that gear produced such a seamless show.
I was at Coachella which was the first show with the pyramid. It was the best live show I've ever seen. They had professional camera guys filming the entire show. I wonder if the entire footage will ever be released. Alive 2007 album is different than what was played a slight bit. The first thing they played was the melody from Close Encounters Of The Third Kind. Kind of like the aliens were here and going to communicate with us humans.
In just the last year, a few of the recordings have popped up. They had the same professional recording set up for the lollapalooza show and for years I waited for it's release, and just last year it popped up out of nowhere on youtube from some random user who does tons of concert footage.
I was there in 2007 and it was the best time of my life! Not just for that concert, but 2007 was a great year and there's a reason why people remember 2007 as a great year.
I was there at the 2007 show in Hyde Park London. Absolutely the best musical experience of my life - I've never felt such a sense of the entire crowd being "as one" and totally on the same wavelength. The best vibe and feeling I've ever had at any festival or rave. My mate and I had been absolutely rinsing the bootleg recording of their coachella set from the year before, but the new moments and tricks they added to the 2007 tour, especially the Human After All / Together encore absolutely blew us away. Great to see some more detail on the inside of the pyramid!
I was at the show that’s in the video, 02 Wireless in London. I couldn’t believe they’d go so “all in” for a festival performance, it felt like a Daft Punk show with a long list of support acts. An incredible experience.
I saw the first pyramid show at Coachella. Everyone that was there to see It that first night, knew electronic shows will forever be changed. I've seen many concerts in my 52 years, that one will always be remembered as one of those that made a significant change on how shows, moving forward, are to me made. Truly and epic night.
Thanks for the breakdown. I attended their performance at Vegoose Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada. I'll never forget how trippy it was to see the Robots become luminescent outlines for the encore.
The technology in their suits for those lights was so well done back then, I wish more artists would create such iconic visual imagery and costumes like the Robots did
I saw them at Oxegen in Ireland in 2007. I didn't know them very well at the time. I knew a few of their music videos from MTV. By the end of the set I was hooked on them. Couldn't get enough. It was a life changing gig. It's still up there with some of the best that I've seen
I saw them at Even Further 1996 in Wisconsin. Way before they started wearing the helmets, Thomas and Guy headlined a 2000 person festival and were by far the best act for the whole weekend, everyone was blown away by how good they were, even when they "just started" Also, they were using a 909, a pair of 303's an Akai Sampler, not sure which model, Mackie mixer and a bunch of efx pedals. Was amazing!
I was there too. I worked as a stagehand at the Bradley Center and came up with the killer idea to have Daft Punk play in Milwaukee for their 20th anniversary of their debut US show. I told my manager about it and she told the board of directors of the Bradley Center about it and within 2 weeks I put together a 10 minute slideshow presentation along with a mock-up flyer and have them do a 2 night stint during memorial day weekend 2016. They loved the idea so much that they got in touch with DP's booking agent and management company. It took them 6 weeks to respond with a no. I was praying almost every night that it would fall through because I would've made an easy 6 figures and the accountants at the Bradley Center said that show would've brought in anywhere from $10 -$15 million for the city of Milwaukee from all the fans. My heart was broken. At least I tried and got a promotion as an assistant talent buyer while the Bradley Center was still around until 2018.
I saw Daft Punk live 11/11/2006 in Miami, FL at Bang Music Festival. I was 19. I went to that show specifically to see them. I mean what can I say, it changed my life.
I saw them a few feet away from the front of the guard rail at Keyspan Park, absolutely mind blowing show. Visually and socially wild. The kick was so loud for the first few minutes of the show, it took me a minute to adjust to it. But then the BASS came in with the kick once the set picked up and every kick i felt my throat close up from the force of the bass. Mind blowing...also that same night went to Studio B in brooklyn and watched Kavinsky, SebastiAn and Busy P DJ all night. Insane night.
Using that Hog lighting console, there’s no doubt in my mind they had MIDI triggers sent through to trigger pre programmed cues on the show file on the HOG
I saw the Alive tour stop in 2007 at Coney Island, Brooklyn NYC. It was insane! It blew my mind on all levels and my mind was swimming with ideas. It was the first time I saw an artist totally rip apart all of their songs and basically do every single track as a match up of their tracks into a totally live and wild remix show. So amazing!
Saw them 2007 at their Toronto show. Best part is the fan base is so into them everyone went along with thte whole show singing to everything everyone knew all of it. Was amazing
While the Jazzmutant Lemur wasn't able to run Ableton or anything natively, it was a spectacular controller in that era. I was sent one to test as our live act at the time was looking at options to upgrade our live rig for tours. I built a few interfaces on it, essentially replicating the way I was using an MPC2000XL live, and was hoping to have a rig built around the Lemur, two copies of Ableton Live, and an Arturia Origin that I was also sent. Not sure many people even remember the Origin or the Lemur, but neither ultimately was reliable enough for touring. The problem with the Lemur for us was environmental. The screen had a nice subtle texture to it, but didn't handle sweat and humidity very well. As a personal preference, and given how we played, I had to rule it out and opt for knobs and faders and pads. Most of the other artists who I spoke to who were also sent a Lemur seemed to agree that it was great for the studio but problematic in the live setup, although a few of the headliners we spoke with who had Lemurs in their rig had this under control. Some were using it as eye candy and the interface wasn't connected to anything, which is almost certainly what you see on the Kanye/Daft Punk footage. In terms of the Alive rig, the failover switches we use these days existed at the time, and are essentially a constant tone being emitted from one side of the rig, and if a computer crashes, it seamlessly switched to the backup. This along with a sync device had, if I'm getting my years right, taken over from the "touring with ProTools and SMPTE" rigs that major headliners were using prior. The status quo had landed on some form of pre-sequenced playback, with Ableton emerging as a replacement to MPCs for additional midi spitting out to a few key synths and clocked FX for live interaction. At the scale of a headline act, the core set has to be locked down, but artists and their tech teams put a lot of effort into making elements controllable, even for their (and I can attest too, our) sanity playing the same set and rig for a year straight. There's a few other common tools used in live rigs when touring, such as MainStage for managing presets, but mostly it's a continual balancing act between reliable performance and some novel/unique live element to keep things interesting. Extensive visuals usually means a strict sync, but as with anything, there are exceptions and while people (who don't have to run a tour) get hot under the collar on forums arguing about this, we live in a great era for entertainment technology. Hope that helps!
I was at the Montreal 2007 Daft Punk show (videos are posted in my feed). What a show. It is hands down one of the best live shows I have ever seen. I was lucky enough to get floor tickets to this event. The sheer energy of the place when they started their set was like no other I had ever seen.
Was at the 2007 wireless show in the footage, and saw the same show in 2006 at global gathering. So so good, the vibe in the crowd at Wireless especially was amazing
I was at the Coachella show. It's still the most impressive thing I've ever seen live. The way it built and built and all the tricks of the visuals were revealed so there were constantly surprises- it was mesmerizing. I saw them again on the tour in 2007 in Seattle, having no idea at the time how historic those shows would be. The happiest days of my life.
I got to see them when I was 20yo in 2007 at vegoose music festival in Las Vegas. It is a beautiful memory and something I will never forget. They completely blew my mind. The Alive 06-07 tour was the start of something that hadn’t really been done before and paved the way for electronic music show production that is par for the course today.
Thanks. Saw them in France and always wondered... outside of the custom faced controllers and off the shelf keyboards. The most impressive was the mastering and sound quality maintained while live tweaking parameters like cut-off, repeat, dub sends...however the recorded version sounding the same tells me they had likely some narrow tweaking window bound to the effect max min setting in ableton to avoid damaging the dynamic they are known for.
Yeah, they definitely has the min - max values dialed in with the midi assigned knobs. I spent a long time dialing in exactly how much reverb I want for my Ableton DJ setup
I saw Daft Punk at the London wireless festival in Hyde park in 2007, LCD sound system also played their album ‘Sound of Silver’ live right before Daft Punk - this was a monumental album for that year. I’ve been to no better concert in my life. What made it even better was this was all just before the iPhone and any camera phones existing, everyone just enjoying the show and dancing. Was a perfect experience that I feel could not be recreated today, just everything aligned so well
Saw 2007 Alive show in Melbourne Australia. A friend who was only into rock was so impressed that she's now a DJ, producer and runs electronic music festivals with her husband. Here I was thinking Daft Punk were past their prime in 2007 and thinking the gig would ve a gimmicky cash grab, due to following thrir music since the 90s and getting gacked at electronic events since the acid house era. DAMN I WAS SO HAPPILY WRONG!!! They smashed it and I couldn't be happier to have this once in a lifetime tour stop in my long list if gigs. It's certainly up there with the best of them. Thanks for the rig rundown 🙏
Saw this performance in summer of 2007. I almost missed the Encore because I had never been to a concert before and was about to walk out thinking it was over.
I still remember being at o2 Wireless 07. Was absolutely mental, they were incredible. One of the best gigs I've been too. Still have many fond memories of that day. I still listen to the Alive album on occasion to reminisce. Still ridiculously good all these years later.
I was a lucky one seeing their Alive 2007 show in Melbourne, Australia - will always be one of the most epic concerts ever seen! This is an amazing back story, thanks! ❤
Probably the best show I’ve ever been to. I saw them in Miami at the Bang! Festival. The one thing that sticks with me about that experience was how great the sound was. It was the most perfect sounding sound sytem. Highs were so crisp. Lows were so heavy & punchy. It was loud enough to feel in your body but didnt hurt your ears. You can have a perfectly normal conversation with the person next to you without having to yell in their ears. That’s what defines perfect sound.
Ace video. Would love to see more gear breakdowns for various artists over the years, seeing a comprehensive list of all the stuff deadmau5 has used would be hugely entertaining.
@@cultfigureclub1 excellent news! Hope to catch it whenever it gets out! I love Joel's approach to live music, and I've always obsessed over his 2015 setup with the Presonus board mixer, the Traktor F1s and his synths, so much so I've endured to buy all the gear needed to make a similiar setup (on 1/4th the budget lol), I only have one Traktor F1 at the moment and rely on an APC Mini for my mixer, but I love the versatility you can get out of them for a live show, even took notes from Joel's Guvernment-closing-party prep stream and have used the F1's midi assignments to control delay and arpeggios on my synths, and its so much fun!
Got to see them in 2007 at Lollapalooza in Chicago. Great show. My wife wasn't really familiar with Daft Punk at the time, but was completely blown away. Particularly by the visuals.
Was at this show but the wireless festival in Leeds! Still the best live show iv seen and iv seen a lot! I only got the tickets last minute I grabbed off someone in the corn exchange. Was very lucky and I think everyone there soon realised we were watching something that would go down in history
One of the best shows I have ever been to and rocked it without any “assistance” what so ever, you didn’t need it that’s how good they made you feel on the day. Best show I have ever been to by far.
Was at 2007 in Nîmes France in the Arenas Daft Punk concert and it still gives me goosebumps listening to it. It was like a wonderful joyful party and we were blown away by the bootlegs/mix they did so smartly. It never went down but kept on growing until the end. The sound was massive, the entire town could hear it to a point we had to put some cotton in our ears to not be deaf after. We definitely felt it! One of the best concert of my life !
I got the luck to attend to this show at The Eurockéenes de Belfort in 2006 then once again on the 14th June 2007 at Paris Bercy. Both shows were epic and also had differences. We also got lucky to join the official after party at the Djoon club in Paris where Busy P, Dj Mehdi , Vicarious Bliss and other Ed Bangers DJs were playing. Such a thrilling experience.
i saw at lallapalooza in 07 best show of my life. opened my world into edm. became a dj. moved to LA. Live in Vietnam now . and yes I owe some of this success to Daft punk. great video mate!
Saw them in Marley Park in Dublin, August 2006. Massively impressive stage show, with a fantastic crowd who went into overdrive when rain descended towards the end of the show, turning the gig into a kind of extra-sensory party for 'One More Time'.
I was front row at the Alive 2007 Chicago / Lollapalooza show. My life was changed that night, and I have yet to experience an event as emotionally powerful as that evening.
Saw this gig live with the rapture in the 07, top 10 of all time. Got to chat with Dave Rat who was/is lead tech at Coachella the next year and picked his brain about a lot of this stuff, if I remember correctly the lighting sync was a basic timecode signal run from the pyramid to front of house, with the primary show program being run mostly through just an insane amount of DMX channels, hence the need for so many computers for that and video. I was also given the impression that they had the ability through an ableton extension to tie certain DMX parameters to certain effect parameters (i.e. strobe frequency to delay length) but that was finicky and didn't work at gigs with longer runs from the stage to the booth. OH ok a couple more tidbits while I'm here, the hexagonal lighting grid is made of "versa tubes", which were very new at the time, and were also heavily used by the chili peppers on their stadium arcadium tour. Daft Punk also allegedly spent their entire $250,000 (before inflation) Coachella contract on the lighting alone, which is why they had to tour to recoup costs
2:58 those are touch screen controllers, probably some prototype of the Lemur used to shoot scenes and from the “custom computer” wich is basicly the one that holds the Ableton session that also controls the visuals and lightning. Now why have touchscreen and physical controllers side by side, I would say there is 2 reasons, first is redundancy, its good practice to have some of it so you can always access a function, for this case a morphing controller like a touchscreen is the best for this. The second reason is that a physical controller is way more precise and expressive than a touch sensitive interface, also BCR controllers have this morphing quality where you can change a program page on the controller and the controller updates without loosing the last page controller position.
I was fortunate enough to catch them at Cocahella 2006 and then LA and Brooklyn for Alive 2007. I’m so grateful that I got to experience a once in a lifetime performance like this. I’ve enjoyed watching the many acts that followed in Daft Punks footsteps, spending the big bucks on their tours and festival shows, chasing the inpossible
I saw Daft Punk for the first time at Coachella 2006. That year had the best lineup of all time. But the best concert experience of my life had to be Daft Punk Alive 2007, at Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York City. Simply magical. Nothing will ever top that.
Saw them in Dublin in 07, I remember being caught of guard by the mixes, expecting they might just hammer out the hits in the classic sense, it was only when I listened back to a ripped version of the set weeks later that I fully appreciated what that had done
The lighting designer designs the lights with help from the artist conceptually. During the show the visuals (lighting and Video) are most likely being controlled by "Timecode" or "Show Control" feeding a Lighting control console. So during, the LD will stay fairly "hands off", adjusting intensities, special focuses, and solving small technical issues. The two worlds are slowly becoming one... where artists will trigger, and possibly even design lighting... but for now they are separate.
i went to the live show by myself in sydney and camped out through all the support acts to make sure i was in the front pit! i had managed to get the album a few weeks earlier and had listened to it non stop so i knew every drop that was coming!
I saw them in Miami at Bang Music Festival in 2006. To this day is still my favorite live show to date. Thanks for breaking down their gear. I’ve always heard stuff but I’ve never seen it explained this way.
I was at the Seattle show. To this day it is the only concert I've ever attended that had a spontaneous break dance battle pit open up in the crowd rather than the more usual mosh pit. I think it was during SebastiAn's opening set, before even The Rapture went on stage, as people were still sort of piling into the venue.
Ugh, I was too young and unaware of Daft Punk during that time. I hadn't gotten into electronic music until 2010 when I was an 8th grader. I got into daft punk, then deadmau5 was what set me on track to learn music production. I'm forever jealous of the fans who got to experience the magnitude and sheer joy of Alive 2007 as well as 1997! I'm agnostic, but I still pray that they announce some sort of last final reunion tour some day. Even if it were just Daft Punk DJ sets. Although, we all know they would want to do something much grander than a DJ set lol besides, Thomas was more of the DJ set type of guy between the two of them. Sucks about his tinnitus
I'm sure someone said this, but the stuck note is an obnoxious thing that happens over midi. It used to happen all the time for me on my MPC 1000, and Ableton has this issue too- especially back then. A sequence will be going great, all of my gear is jamming my midi sequence, and then one of my synths just goes "eeeeeee..."; maybe still trying to play the sequence on a monosynth so it sounds all fucked up going from stuck note to programed ones. I usually have to turn off the synth to get unstuck which usually worked. If that didn't work, I'd have to turn off my midi sequencer, which during a set, live or otherwise, can be a real vibe killer especially if it happens to a bass synth or something integral. I'd have to reload all the samples, the set list, etc. on my mpc. Serious vibe killer. As far as I understand the lights can be sequenced with the music. Tie a certain effect for certain beat ,drum sound, synth notes, whatever, have each track do different effects, etc. One thing that is also used is called Max msp which could be connected to Ableton, though I don't know if they were connectable back then as it was before I ever knew about how to produce electronic music at all- I know they were both out. Max msp is sort of a basic looking program where you use code to build synthesizers, effects, sampling, manipulation of video, lights, etc. There's an unaffiliated, crowd sourced version called pure data too, since Max costs a fuckton. I wouldn't be surprised if the lighting engineers were tied to the music and had their own super computers from the light booth, though pre-sequenced makes a lot of sense to avoid headaches, but I dont' know shit.
I remember an interview with the set / lighting designer in 'Frame' magazine (interior design mag). Not sure about the details anymore, but he mentioned how many things they had redundant and had to 'hot swap' during the concerts.
I was at the 2006 Coachella performance, and it was the best thing I've ever seen. I also saw them in Seattle during the tour in 2007, and it was a shadow of what I experienced at Coachella.
I still have my Alive 2007 shirt! Saw them in LA at Memorial Sports Arena on that tour. One random night I got to hang out with Thomas when he did a secret set at CineSpace, in Hollywood, during the Dim Mak/ Ed Banger days with Busy P, SoMe, DJ Mehdi (RIP), and crew. I snuck on stage and was right next to Thomas as he DJ’d. TOTALLY INSANE and have the clip on UA-cam way back then. GOOD F’N TIMES.
So that shot of the Front Of House consoles i noticed the lighting control. Its was a High End Systems Whole Hog with several playback wings (all the blue consoles) this was what was controlling the lighting. The whole show would have been synced together with a midi or LTC audio timcode track, allowing all video/lighting programming to be in sync to the audio Daft Punk was playing.
While I don't understand anything about lighting consoles, thank you for this bit of cool info! I'd imagine the lighting would have been synced to Ableton's midi clock to ensure it stays in time.
I was lucky enough to see the Berkeley, CA show in July 2007. Best concert of my life. One of the friends I went with had seen the original mind-blowing Coachella performance a year earlier and said the 2007 version of the tour was even better.
The pieces in the rack referred to in this video as the computers are "Gefen CAT5-1000 KVM Extenders" no doubt this is what Thomas is referring to as the points for remote access to the "super computers" backstage. In the shots with ableton on the screens both look identical so I would guess they are using 2 identical systems with one run as the backup. I can't seem to find the monitors so I can't be sure they are just standard VGA sceens or if they are also touch screens.
You are absolutely right, there is an image that shows the units pretty clearly. Not sure what the monitors are, tho, most likely they are the "custom" part of their "custom-made super computers"
I see two apple mouses to the right of the screens, so probably not touch screen. I'm no user myself but I'm guessing ableton isn't really touchscreen friendly anyways, no?
You can link ableton live instances to each other to stay in time over either MIDI or even things like RTP over an ethernet connection, so it's very likely they were just using two live sets.
Ableton is not natively built for touchscreen use. Its definitely possible to use, but very difficult
Doubt touch screen would be reliable with their gloves
I worked for Daft Punk/ Daft Arts in summer of 2007 helping gear up for North American tour. Their hq was in Los Angeles and I was hired by way of good reference who was a rigger on the tour. He also knew I was a huge Daft Punk fan. I basically worked as a runner for the tour managers / Guy & Thomas. A lot of my day trips while working with them included picking up and taking gear synths, controllers, etc to repair shops. Picking up sample pieces from Dior (If memory serves me- that’s who made their black leather tour costumes) and driving multiple trips getting their stage helmets and costumes electronics repaired. My first trip driving the gear, I just remember being in traffic on the 405 blasting Rollin & Scratchin and looking in the back seat with Guy and Thomas’ helmets and suits just sitting there. Was a surreal moment. One day I also helped move in some lightning and rigging to the sound stage they were working in. There, I assisted with building the stage setup. Stood in the pyramid. After it was complete I hung back with the lighting crew and they were going through the entire set from playback working on lighting cues, etc. Was the pinnacle of my life at that point. Was a 22 year old young man at the time!
thank you for your story, so cool Jared :))
do you remember what the helmets were made out of and if there was anything additional inside of them?
That’s so cool. A lot of people would kill for that experience. 🎉
“Was a 22 year old young man.” Bro you’re only 38 years old don’t make the rest of us 30 year olds look old lol
Of course Daft Punk used Dior for their costumes! How good
Saw them in Amsterdam in 2007. The only downside of the show was that it was so mindblowingly incredible that I didn’t feel like seeing any other live act for at least a year.
The encore alone was the best thing I’d ever experienced in live music (still is), and the entire show as an audiovisual whole was simply unparalleled and genuinely unforgettable.
I 100% feel this. They stepped things up to a whole different level
Damn. I've never even heard of someone having that kind of response from a show. Lucky lucky.
I was there as well and still is the best performance I have ever seen. While standing there we knew we were watching something being a historical benchmark. This was an experience I will never forget.
same here. same memories as you! i feel blessed still, and thanks a billion to that one dutch promoter who called me and said 'my girl can't go, you want her ticket for DP Live'? i was like 'oh heeyellllzzzzyess! :-))))))
Siiick! I was there as well, best experience I had in my lifetime hahahaha
My first ever "BIG" concert / live show. It was 18+ and I had just turned 18 a few months prior. Lucky! Saw them in Brisbane, Australia. It was Summer '07-- hot, humid, and an absolute sweatbox. People who missed out on tickets had arrived early looking to score, asking those in the queue if they wanted $500+ for their ticket. They struggled. By then, videos had surfaced online from other shows earlier in the tour, and everyone knew how valuable a ticket to see Daft Punk live was. Priceless! I stayed up to midnight to buy tickets and they sold out in 5 minutes! Second-to-last show of their tour and they absolutely smashed it. Both audio and visuals were flawless. I couldn't believe that after a significant world tour they still had the energy to bang out this show. It was total euphoria from start to finish. Lots of tears in the crowd after. Everyone was on a perfect high, pure exhilaration and joy, and much hope for the future. Nothing else like it before or since, and it cannot be overstated how much this tour shaped live electronic music. All the big audio-visual electronic live shows you see today are rooted in what Daft Punk gave the world on the Alive 2007 tour. Once-in-a-lifetime experience.
So special reading this, especially from someone who lives where I do. I wish I was old enough to go see them back in 2007, but I've heard of so many people who said this was the very first show they ever saw. It sets the bar so high and so many electronic music live shows have taken inspiration from this (Justice, Madeon, Porter Robinson etc.)
How does it feel knowing you saw one of the last ever Daft Punk shows?
@@cultfigureclub1 Bittersweet, but also very special and I hold the experience extremely close. Suffice to say, it definitely ruined me for live electronic shows! It's an extremely high bar to clear. The only thing that's on par these days is Aphex Twin's most recent live shows.
That new Aphex show he put on this year was so cool, and the music he curated for it was even better, I found so many incredible artists like Kavari, Blood of Aza, Shinra Knives, etc thru that show
@@cultfigureclub1 Absolutely! His live tracklists are second-to-none. Just some of the most off-kilter, ultra modern productions I've ever heard. Best place to start looking if you're after some beguiling music.
I saw the show in Melbourne that same tour. It will stay with me forever. I've had the pleasure of not only seeing most of my heroes play but also met and worked alongside many as a stage manager. Alive remains Top 3 performances ever alongside a 3 hour Bruce Springsteen epic where Tom Morello from Rage Against The Machine was on guitars due to Stevie shooting his TV show at the time, and a Massive Attack playing the hits then just going into a free-form post-rock insanity for about 20 minutes that I don't think anyone expected.
Alive is still the best crowd of any event I've ever been to. Diverse, happy, appreciative and everyone was hugging strangers when they finished because despite being stone cold sober, it was a real "what the fuck did we just witness" kind of moment in time.
I literally snuck into this show 🤣in 2007 at Sam Boyd in Las Vegas I hoped the backstage fence with 1 other friend and we literally got to meet daft punk for 2 seconds as they went on stage they were high fiving people as they walked up the stage ramp it was a surreal moment and then I went with the press people in front area where all photographers guys were taking photos and got to watch the show from there I have some videos and photos of it taken on my old school blackberry phone haha I didn't know was even going to be so epic at the time my little 16 year old brain was totally blown away!
Drove from Utah to LA to catch this show with my friend. Still the best show of my life, all these years later.
The lemur was special at the time because almost every other touch screen tech was single-touch only, they would wig out if you used two fingers and trigger a spot in between and generally just act like a computer mouse. The lemur was one of the few devices that had multi-touch capabilities, that and the Microsoft Surface, which at the time was a table with a projection screen in it that used an IR camera to see where your fingers were touching.
i remember when i heard about the first touchscreen phones, and thinking "yeah right... good luck with that"
it's hard to explain just how incredibly shitty touchscreen technology was before the mid 00s.
I believe
I wasn't familiar with the Lemur but come to think of it, I think The Glitch Mob used them quite a bit
A buddy dragged me reluctantly to the 2007 show at the Forum in Los Angeles, and it ended up being one of the greatest experiences of my life. Aside from the amazing sound and mindblowing visuals, the energy of the crowd was incredible. It was the greatest non-stop dance party of all time and everyone around me was absolutely having the time of their lives. Just pure joy.
The surprise and impact that show would have given you would have been even more potent I imagine
It was the Sports Arena wasn't it? I went to the LA show... and the Pukkelpop show and the Coachella show =)
That’s a good friend.
Flew in the day of the show at red rocks, you could still get tickets at the door. The lead singer of the rapture said " prepare to see the have best experience in your life, better then your wedding day or having a child " He was right. Sebastain & Kavinsky djed in the middle of the crowd everyone was passing around champagne. Life changing experience, altered the course of my life and put me in my career today.
Saw that tour at Red Rocks amphitheater in Colorado. Absolutely epic, I will never forget it. Amazing that all that gear produced such a seamless show.
Red Rocks is a really cool venue. I saw Deadmau5 perform there in 2019 during his Cube V3 tour. Was an awesome show!
Do you remember the synth crash?
This us probably the most accurate and spot on video I've seen regarding the Alive 2006/2007 setup. The attention to detail here is amazing!
I was at Coachella which was the first show with the pyramid. It was the best live show I've ever seen. They had professional camera guys filming the entire show. I wonder if the entire footage will ever be released. Alive 2007 album is different than what was played a slight bit. The first thing they played was the melody from Close Encounters Of The Third Kind. Kind of like the aliens were here and going to communicate with us humans.
There's a good amount of the full Alive 2007 concert recordings! One was edited with the film cameras and not crowd phones
They hit ur azz w them secret frequencies
I was there as well, they did start with Close Encounters
I was there as well! One of the best shows I've ever seen.
Do you remember the US flag getting frozen on the LED backdrop?
In just the last year, a few of the recordings have popped up. They had the same professional recording set up for the lollapalooza show and for years I waited for it's release, and just last year it popped up out of nowhere on youtube from some random user who does tons of concert footage.
I saw Alive in 2007 in Sydney....by far the best show I have ever been to. Best music, sound, programming, lighting....was just impeccable
I was there in 2007 and it was the best time of my life! Not just for that concert, but 2007 was a great year and there's a reason why people remember 2007 as a great year.
I was there at the 2007 show in Hyde Park London. Absolutely the best musical experience of my life - I've never felt such a sense of the entire crowd being "as one" and totally on the same wavelength. The best vibe and feeling I've ever had at any festival or rave. My mate and I had been absolutely rinsing the bootleg recording of their coachella set from the year before, but the new moments and tricks they added to the 2007 tour, especially the Human After All / Together encore absolutely blew us away. Great to see some more detail on the inside of the pyramid!
I was at the show that’s in the video, 02 Wireless in London. I couldn’t believe they’d go so “all in” for a festival performance, it felt like a Daft Punk show with a long list of support acts. An incredible experience.
I saw the first pyramid show at Coachella. Everyone that was there to see It that first night, knew electronic shows will forever be changed. I've seen many concerts in my 52 years, that one will always be remembered as one of those that made a significant change on how shows, moving forward, are to me made. Truly and epic night.
Thanks for the breakdown. I attended their performance at Vegoose Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada. I'll never forget how trippy it was to see the Robots become luminescent outlines for the encore.
The technology in their suits for those lights was so well done back then, I wish more artists would create such iconic visual imagery and costumes like the Robots did
I was there too and Coachella
I was at that Vegoose festival too. Awesome show
I saw them at Oxegen in Ireland in 2007. I didn't know them very well at the time. I knew a few of their music videos from MTV.
By the end of the set I was hooked on them. Couldn't get enough. It was a life changing gig. It's still up there with some of the best that I've seen
I saw them at Even Further 1996 in Wisconsin. Way before they started wearing the helmets, Thomas and Guy headlined a 2000 person festival and were by far the best act for the whole weekend, everyone was blown away by how good they were, even when they "just started" Also, they were using a 909, a pair of 303's an Akai Sampler, not sure which model, Mackie mixer and a bunch of efx pedals. Was amazing!
I really wanna explore what they used in the late 90s and how they put on such a sick show back then
@@cultfigureclub1 they used an Ensoniq DP/4+ for their early vocoder tracks.
@@cultfigureclub1If you need reference photos let me know. I don't what gear is in the photos but I have a plenty
I was there too. I worked as a stagehand at the Bradley Center and came up with the killer idea to have Daft Punk play in Milwaukee for their 20th anniversary of their debut US show. I told my manager about it and she told the board of directors of the Bradley Center about it and within 2 weeks I put together a 10 minute slideshow presentation along with a mock-up flyer and have them do a 2 night stint during memorial day weekend 2016. They loved the idea so much that they got in touch with DP's booking agent and management company. It took them 6 weeks to respond with a no. I was praying almost every night that it would fall through because I would've made an easy 6 figures and the accountants at the Bradley Center said that show would've brought in anywhere from $10 -$15 million for the city of Milwaukee from all the fans.
My heart was broken. At least I tried and got a promotion as an assistant talent buyer while the Bradley Center was still around until 2018.
@@_Scyber if you're not associated with Kurt or DBN they had no reason to play for you...
Saw them twice in Ireland in 06 and 07. The 07 gig is still the best concert / dj I’ve ever been at. I don’t think it’ll ever be beaten
I was at Alive 2007 in Toronto and it remains the best show I ever saw. And I’ve been to a lot of shows. I’ll never forget it.
I saw Daft Punk live 11/11/2006 in Miami, FL at Bang Music Festival. I was 19. I went to that show specifically to see them. I mean what can I say, it changed my life.
I saw them a few feet away from the front of the guard rail at Keyspan Park, absolutely mind blowing show. Visually and socially wild. The kick was so loud for the first few minutes of the show, it took me a minute to adjust to it. But then the BASS came in with the kick once the set picked up and every kick i felt my throat close up from the force of the bass. Mind blowing...also that same night went to Studio B in brooklyn and watched Kavinsky, SebastiAn and Busy P DJ all night. Insane night.
I saw them in Vegas 2007. Absolutely incredible. My ears were ringing for 48 hours.
Earplugs are important.
Using that Hog lighting console, there’s no doubt in my mind they had MIDI triggers sent through to trigger pre programmed cues on the show file on the HOG
I was there in 2007, it was absolutely euphoric.
Jealous, I wish I was there
If I manage to get my hands on a time machine I will definitely go there….
@@cultfigureclub1 I wish you were there too!
@@SanderHollebrand It would be my first stop.
You are the best. Thank you so much for awnsering all the question I had. Best live album of all time.
I saw the Alive tour stop in 2007 at Coney Island, Brooklyn NYC. It was insane! It blew my mind on all levels and my mind was swimming with ideas. It was the first time I saw an artist totally rip apart all of their songs and basically do every single track as a match up of their tracks into a totally live and wild remix show. So amazing!
Saw them 2007 at their Toronto show. Best part is the fan base is so into them everyone went along with thte whole show singing to everything everyone knew all of it. Was amazing
Drove from Minnesota to Colorado for the Red Rocks show. To this day still one of the most powerful music experiences I have ever had!
One of the best shows in one of the best venues on earth!
Made the exact same drive! 🎉
Saw them in 2007 at Red Rocks in Colorado, it was incredible!
Saw that show at the Bang Music Festival in Miami in 2006… Best live show I’ve seen to date.
The sound was crisp and lovely at that show, and having 4 analogue mono synths certainly helped. Thanks for the deep dive!
While the Jazzmutant Lemur wasn't able to run Ableton or anything natively, it was a spectacular controller in that era. I was sent one to test as our live act at the time was looking at options to upgrade our live rig for tours. I built a few interfaces on it, essentially replicating the way I was using an MPC2000XL live, and was hoping to have a rig built around the Lemur, two copies of Ableton Live, and an Arturia Origin that I was also sent.
Not sure many people even remember the Origin or the Lemur, but neither ultimately was reliable enough for touring. The problem with the Lemur for us was environmental. The screen had a nice subtle texture to it, but didn't handle sweat and humidity very well. As a personal preference, and given how we played, I had to rule it out and opt for knobs and faders and pads. Most of the other artists who I spoke to who were also sent a Lemur seemed to agree that it was great for the studio but problematic in the live setup, although a few of the headliners we spoke with who had Lemurs in their rig had this under control. Some were using it as eye candy and the interface wasn't connected to anything, which is almost certainly what you see on the Kanye/Daft Punk footage.
In terms of the Alive rig, the failover switches we use these days existed at the time, and are essentially a constant tone being emitted from one side of the rig, and if a computer crashes, it seamlessly switched to the backup. This along with a sync device had, if I'm getting my years right, taken over from the "touring with ProTools and SMPTE" rigs that major headliners were using prior. The status quo had landed on some form of pre-sequenced playback, with Ableton emerging as a replacement to MPCs for additional midi spitting out to a few key synths and clocked FX for live interaction. At the scale of a headline act, the core set has to be locked down, but artists and their tech teams put a lot of effort into making elements controllable, even for their (and I can attest too, our) sanity playing the same set and rig for a year straight.
There's a few other common tools used in live rigs when touring, such as MainStage for managing presets, but mostly it's a continual balancing act between reliable performance and some novel/unique live element to keep things interesting. Extensive visuals usually means a strict sync, but as with anything, there are exceptions and while people (who don't have to run a tour) get hot under the collar on forums arguing about this, we live in a great era for entertainment technology. Hope that helps!
Amazing post. Thank you.
I would love to see what Daft Punk would do in something like the Sphere in Vegas
I saw the Alive in 2007 in Sydney.
Hands down the most significant and incredible electronic show I’ve experienced to this day.
I was at the Montreal 2007 Daft Punk show (videos are posted in my feed). What a show. It is hands down one of the best live shows I have ever seen. I was lucky enough to get floor tickets to this event. The sheer energy of the place when they started their set was like no other I had ever seen.
one of the most iconic shows in history for sure! all time favorite in every way
Saw them at lollapalooza 2007 they started right after LCD Soundsystem played “Daft Punk is Playing at My House”. It was an all timer🎉
yes! and the fact that LCD played at the stage across from Daft so all you had to do was turn around after LCD was done.
Was at the 2007 wireless show in the footage, and saw the same show in 2006 at global gathering. So so good, the vibe in the crowd at Wireless especially was amazing
I saw the Alive show in Düsseldorf. Until this day it's still one of the best shows I have ever seen (and will probably ever see),
Never had the chance to watch Daft Punk live 😢
I was at the Coachella show. It's still the most impressive thing I've ever seen live. The way it built and built and all the tricks of the visuals were revealed so there were constantly surprises- it was mesmerizing. I saw them again on the tour in 2007 in Seattle, having no idea at the time how historic those shows would be. The happiest days of my life.
I got to see them when I was 20yo in 2007 at vegoose music festival in Las Vegas. It is a beautiful memory and something I will never forget. They completely blew my mind. The Alive 06-07 tour was the start of something that hadn’t really been done before and paved the way for electronic music show production that is par for the course today.
Thanks. Saw them in France and always wondered... outside of the custom faced controllers and off the shelf keyboards. The most impressive was the mastering and sound quality maintained while live tweaking parameters like cut-off, repeat, dub sends...however the recorded version sounding the same tells me they had likely some narrow tweaking window bound to the effect max min setting in ableton to avoid damaging the dynamic they are known for.
Yeah, they definitely has the min - max values dialed in with the midi assigned knobs. I spent a long time dialing in exactly how much reverb I want for my Ableton DJ setup
I saw Daft Punk at the London wireless festival in Hyde park in 2007, LCD sound system also played their album ‘Sound of Silver’ live right before Daft Punk - this was a monumental album for that year. I’ve been to no better concert in my life. What made it even better was this was all just before the iPhone and any camera phones existing, everyone just enjoying the show and dancing. Was a perfect experience that I feel could not be recreated today, just everything aligned so well
Saw 2007 Alive show in Melbourne Australia. A friend who was only into rock was so impressed that she's now a DJ, producer and runs electronic music festivals with her husband.
Here I was thinking Daft Punk were past their prime in 2007 and thinking the gig would ve a gimmicky cash grab, due to following thrir music since the 90s and getting gacked at electronic events since the acid house era. DAMN I WAS SO HAPPILY WRONG!!!
They smashed it and I couldn't be happier to have this once in a lifetime tour stop in my long list if gigs. It's certainly up there with the best of them.
Thanks for the rig rundown 🙏
Saw this performance in summer of 2007. I almost missed the Encore because I had never been to a concert before and was about to walk out thinking it was over.
I still remember being at o2 Wireless 07. Was absolutely mental, they were incredible. One of the best gigs I've been too. Still have many fond memories of that day. I still listen to the Alive album on occasion to reminisce. Still ridiculously good all these years later.
2007 brisbane australia. i was 15, jumped the fence and it changed my life.
I was a lucky one seeing their Alive 2007 show in Melbourne, Australia - will always be one of the most epic concerts ever seen! This is an amazing back story, thanks! ❤
Probably the best show I’ve ever been to. I saw them in Miami at the Bang! Festival. The one thing that sticks with me about that experience was how great the sound was. It was the most perfect sounding sound sytem. Highs were so crisp. Lows were so heavy & punchy. It was loud enough to feel in your body but didnt hurt your ears. You can have a perfectly normal conversation with the person next to you without having to yell in their ears. That’s what defines perfect sound.
Ace video. Would love to see more gear breakdowns for various artists over the years, seeing a comprehensive list of all the stuff deadmau5 has used would be hugely entertaining.
This is something I want to do with a friend of mine who has studied Joel's setups immensely over the years.
@@cultfigureclub1 excellent news! Hope to catch it whenever it gets out!
I love Joel's approach to live music, and I've always obsessed over his 2015 setup with the Presonus board mixer, the Traktor F1s and his synths, so much so I've endured to buy all the gear needed to make a similiar setup (on 1/4th the budget lol), I only have one Traktor F1 at the moment and rely on an APC Mini for my mixer, but I love the versatility you can get out of them for a live show, even took notes from Joel's Guvernment-closing-party prep stream and have used the F1's midi assignments to control delay and arpeggios on my synths, and its so much fun!
Got to see them in 2007 at Lollapalooza in Chicago. Great show. My wife wasn't really familiar with Daft Punk at the time, but was completely blown away. Particularly by the visuals.
That was a great show. Was there as well
I had the rack Moog Voyager and sadly sold it around 10 years ago. Beautiful piece of kit.
Got to see them for the Alive tour in 2007 Melbourne. Best experience of my life. Was obsessed wirh them after that.
I saw them twice! In 1997 in the Redbox night club in Dublin. Roger Sanchez opened for them, saw them again in Marley park Dublin in 2007.
I saw them live on this tour at lollapalooza 2007 and it was one of the best show I have ever been to.
Was at this show but the wireless festival in Leeds! Still the best live show iv seen and iv seen a lot! I only got the tickets last minute I grabbed off someone in the corn exchange. Was very lucky and I think everyone there soon realised we were watching something that would go down in history
One of the best shows I have ever been to and rocked it without any “assistance” what so ever, you didn’t need it that’s how good they made you feel on the day. Best show I have ever been to by far.
Was at 2007 in Nîmes France in the Arenas Daft Punk concert and it still gives me goosebumps listening to it. It was like a wonderful joyful party and we were blown away by the bootlegs/mix they did so smartly. It never went down but kept on growing until the end. The sound was massive, the entire town could hear it to a point we had to put some cotton in our ears to not be deaf after. We definitely felt it! One of the best concert of my life !
I got the luck to attend to this show at The Eurockéenes de Belfort in 2006 then once again on the 14th June 2007 at Paris Bercy. Both shows were epic and also had differences. We also got lucky to join the official after party at the Djoon club in Paris where Busy P, Dj Mehdi , Vicarious Bliss and other Ed Bangers DJs were playing. Such a thrilling experience.
Your vids never miss
Thank you so much!
i saw at lallapalooza in 07 best show of my life. opened my world into edm. became a dj. moved to LA. Live in Vietnam now . and yes I owe some of this success to Daft punk. great video mate!
Saw them in Marley Park in Dublin, August 2006. Massively impressive stage show, with a fantastic crowd who went into overdrive when rain descended towards the end of the show, turning the gig into a kind of extra-sensory party for 'One More Time'.
Little correction: the stage layout @ 5:26 is from 2007, not Coachella 2006. I should probably differentiate that section of my website better
Oh hey, I follow u on Twitter! Did u make the Daft Punk historian site with all the photos?
Tata was a memorable concert one of my favorites I saw them in 2007 in Mexico City @ Palacio de los Deportes
I was front row at the Alive 2007 Chicago / Lollapalooza show. My life was changed that night, and I have yet to experience an event as emotionally powerful as that evening.
Saw this gig live with the rapture in the 07, top 10 of all time. Got to chat with Dave Rat who was/is lead tech at Coachella the next year and picked his brain about a lot of this stuff, if I remember correctly the lighting sync was a basic timecode signal run from the pyramid to front of house, with the primary show program being run mostly through just an insane amount of DMX channels, hence the need for so many computers for that and video. I was also given the impression that they had the ability through an ableton extension to tie certain DMX parameters to certain effect parameters (i.e. strobe frequency to delay length) but that was finicky and didn't work at gigs with longer runs from the stage to the booth. OH ok a couple more tidbits while I'm here, the hexagonal lighting grid is made of "versa tubes", which were very new at the time, and were also heavily used by the chili peppers on their stadium arcadium tour. Daft Punk also allegedly spent their entire $250,000 (before inflation) Coachella contract on the lighting alone, which is why they had to tour to recoup costs
2:58 those are touch screen controllers, probably some prototype of the Lemur used to shoot scenes and from the “custom computer” wich is basicly the one that holds the Ableton session that also controls the visuals and lightning.
Now why have touchscreen and physical controllers side by side, I would say there is 2 reasons, first is redundancy, its good practice to have some of it so you can always access a function, for this case a morphing controller like a touchscreen is the best for this.
The second reason is that a physical controller is way more precise and expressive than a touch sensitive interface, also BCR controllers have this morphing quality where you can change a program page on the controller and the controller updates without loosing the last page controller position.
I was fortunate enough to catch them at Cocahella 2006 and then LA and Brooklyn for Alive 2007. I’m so grateful that I got to experience a once in a lifetime performance like this. I’ve enjoyed watching the many acts that followed in Daft Punks footsteps, spending the big bucks on their tours and festival shows, chasing the inpossible
I saw Daft Punk for the first time at Coachella 2006. That year had the best lineup of all time. But the best concert experience of my life had to be Daft Punk Alive 2007, at Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York City. Simply magical. Nothing will ever top that.
I was absolutely gutted Daft Punk didn't tour in 2017, would've been my only chance to see them. Good video!
Saw them in Dublin in 07, I remember being caught of guard by the mixes, expecting they might just hammer out the hits in the classic sense, it was only when I listened back to a ripped version of the set weeks later that I fully appreciated what that had done
Always appreciate a topic I can totally re-nerd with with extra information I didn't know. Technical stuff being a nice meaty onion
The lighting designer designs the lights with help from the artist conceptually. During the show the visuals (lighting and Video) are most likely being controlled by "Timecode" or "Show Control" feeding a Lighting control console. So during, the LD will stay fairly "hands off", adjusting intensities, special focuses, and solving small technical issues. The two worlds are slowly becoming one... where artists will trigger, and possibly even design lighting... but for now they are separate.
Just gonna say that I was there (Sydney show) still mesmerised to this day.
Saw them in Melbourne in 2007 at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl. What a great day! Loved it. Thanks for the video. :D
I saw them in Brooklyn in 2007. An amazing concert.
i went to the live show by myself in sydney and camped out through all the support acts to make sure i was in the front pit! i had managed to get the album a few weeks earlier and had listened to it non stop so i knew every drop that was coming!
Saw the 19/08/2006 in Pukkelpop, Belgium. Just turned 15. I'll never forget it.
Thanks for this showcase, a gear nerd's paradise!
I saw them in Miami at Bang Music Festival in 2006. To this day is still my favorite live show to date. Thanks for breaking down their gear. I’ve always heard stuff but I’ve never seen it explained this way.
That's where I saw them too!
Very cool documentary thank you
So glad you enjoyed it!
I was at the Seattle show. To this day it is the only concert I've ever attended that had a spontaneous break dance battle pit open up in the crowd rather than the more usual mosh pit. I think it was during SebastiAn's opening set, before even The Rapture went on stage, as people were still sort of piling into the venue.
Ive always wondered this but never bothered to actually look into it. Dope
Now that Justice has released IRIS: A Space Opera, do you think you could do a breakdown of the equipment used on their WWW tour?
Thats definitely a good idea, I will look into it
Ugh, I was too young and unaware of Daft Punk during that time. I hadn't gotten into electronic music until 2010 when I was an 8th grader. I got into daft punk, then deadmau5 was what set me on track to learn music production. I'm forever jealous of the fans who got to experience the magnitude and sheer joy of Alive 2007 as well as 1997!
I'm agnostic, but I still pray that they announce some sort of last final reunion tour some day. Even if it were just Daft Punk DJ sets. Although, we all know they would want to do something much grander than a DJ set lol besides, Thomas was more of the DJ set type of guy between the two of them. Sucks about his tinnitus
I was at the Coachella pyramid debut and at the Los Angeles coliseum. Best show ever.
I'm sure someone said this, but the stuck note is an obnoxious thing that happens over midi. It used to happen all the time for me on my MPC 1000, and Ableton has this issue too- especially back then. A sequence will be going great, all of my gear is jamming my midi sequence, and then one of my synths just goes "eeeeeee..."; maybe still trying to play the sequence on a monosynth so it sounds all fucked up going from stuck note to programed ones. I usually have to turn off the synth to get unstuck which usually worked. If that didn't work, I'd have to turn off my midi sequencer, which during a set, live or otherwise, can be a real vibe killer especially if it happens to a bass synth or something integral. I'd have to reload all the samples, the set list, etc. on my mpc. Serious vibe killer.
As far as I understand the lights can be sequenced with the music. Tie a certain effect for certain beat ,drum sound, synth notes, whatever, have each track do different effects, etc. One thing that is also used is called Max msp which could be connected to Ableton, though I don't know if they were connectable back then as it was before I ever knew about how to produce electronic music at all- I know they were both out. Max msp is sort of a basic looking program where you use code to build synthesizers, effects, sampling, manipulation of video, lights, etc. There's an unaffiliated, crowd sourced version called pure data too, since Max costs a fuckton. I wouldn't be surprised if the lighting engineers were tied to the music and had their own super computers from the light booth, though pre-sequenced makes a lot of sense to avoid headaches, but I dont' know shit.
synths are cool and all, but guitars and drum kits do not crash unless you throw them off the roof.
I remember an interview with the set / lighting designer in 'Frame' magazine (interior design mag). Not sure about the details anymore, but he mentioned how many things they had redundant and had to 'hot swap' during the concerts.
I saw them in Melbourne, Australia 2007! Wow changed my life and something I would never forget !
I saw them in Oxygen Festival (Ireland) in 2007. The show was incredible and the whole reason for my love of electronic music thereafter.
I was at the 2006 Coachella performance, and it was the best thing I've ever seen.
I also saw them in Seattle during the tour in 2007, and it was a shadow of what I experienced at Coachella.
I still have my Alive 2007 shirt! Saw them in LA at Memorial Sports Arena on that tour.
One random night I got to hang out with Thomas when he did a secret set at CineSpace, in Hollywood, during the Dim Mak/ Ed Banger days with Busy P, SoMe, DJ Mehdi (RIP), and crew. I snuck on stage and was right next to Thomas as he DJ’d. TOTALLY INSANE and have the clip on UA-cam way back then. GOOD F’N TIMES.
Saw them in Melbourne Australia. Still got the poster, one of my favourite possessions.
I was lucky enough to have seen the “Pyramid” tour in Vegas! It was the best concert of my life
So that shot of the Front Of House consoles i noticed the lighting control. Its was a High End Systems Whole Hog with several playback wings (all the blue consoles) this was what was controlling the lighting. The whole show would have been synced together with a midi or LTC audio timcode track, allowing all video/lighting programming to be in sync to the audio Daft Punk was playing.
While I don't understand anything about lighting consoles, thank you for this bit of cool info! I'd imagine the lighting would have been synced to Ableton's midi clock to ensure it stays in time.
I was lucky enough to see the Berkeley, CA show in July 2007. Best concert of my life. One of the friends I went with had seen the original mind-blowing Coachella performance a year earlier and said the 2007 version of the tour was even better.
It wasn't.