Daft Punk & Daft Punk – Alive 2007

Several Moog Voyagers can be seen in photos of Daft Punk's pyramid, i.e. their live gear setup.

In a two-page spread image pulled from Mixmag, Thomas Bangalter says about Daft Punk live shows, "The show revolves around Ableton Live software on custom made super-computers which we remotely access and control with Behringer BCR2000 MIDI controllers."

In an exclusive interview with Ableton, Thomas Bangalter says, "The rule is: There are no rules. That is definitely the case for the freeform piece of software that is Live." Thomas Bangalter also turns to Ableton when he's looking for sonic warmth. "One of the things I prefer in Live is the proprietary Ableton effects plug-ins. They are amongst the warmest software effects. Sometimes I will import a Pro Tools track in Live, just to bounce it down with Ableton effects, to make it sound warmer and crisper, or dirty — I love dirt. I'm not a big ReWire fan, so I do it the old-school way, importing and exporting the sound files."

Used to run Catalyst v4 on the Alive 2006/2007 Tour, as mentioned by Catalyst author Simon Cozens in this November 13, 2007 Catalyst PixelMAD SAMSC Support forum post, which was in response to this late 2007 Apple profile page for XL Video.

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Daft Punk wanted the most dazzling visuals they could get for their latest tour. XL Video provided a few eight-core Mac Pros running Catalyst v4 and Final Cut Pro. “They came to us with a pretty fixed idea of what they wanted,” says Burford. “They wanted to mix live video with effects. Using the eight-core Mac Pros, we were able to take in eight digital sources and treat them as video streams. Then they could use Catalyst to coordinate the video with lighting effects and add their own effects in on the fly. The final digital video streams ran to LED screens.”

Mr_P (Simon Cozens), Catalyst PixelMAD SAMSC Support

Daft Punk actually ran on 5 x G5's... but it was catalyst not FCP

Two Behringer BCR2000 MIDI Controllers were part of Daft Punk's live setup.

XL Video provided Daft Punk with some eight-core Mac Pros for visuals on the Alive 2007 tour, as mentioned by XL Video head Richard Burford in this late 2007 Apple profile page.

Daft Punk wanted the most dazzling visuals they could get for their latest tour. XL Video provided a few eight-core Mac Pros running Catalyst v4 and Final Cut Pro. “They came to us with a pretty fixed idea of what they wanted,” says Burford. “They wanted to mix live video with effects. Using the eight-core Mac Pros, we were able to take in eight digital sources and treat them as video streams. Then they could use Catalyst to coordinate the video with lighting effects and add their own effects in on the fly. The final digital video streams ran to LED screens.”

Used for visuals on the Alive 2007 tour, as mentioned by XL Video head Richard Burford in this late 2007 Apple profile page.

Daft Punk wanted the most dazzling visuals they could get for their latest tour. XL Video provided a few eight-core Mac Pros running Catalyst v4 and Final Cut Pro. “They came to us with a pretty fixed idea of what they wanted,” says Burford. “They wanted to mix live video with effects. Using the eight-core Mac Pros, we were able to take in eight digital sources and treat them as video streams. Then they could use Catalyst to coordinate the video with lighting effects and add their own effects in on the fly. The final digital video streams ran to LED screens.”

Daft Punk utilized the PreSonus Central Station Plus Monitoring Controller, as evidenced by an image showing the device in their setup. This piece of equipment was either used to control their in-ear monitors (IEMs) or to receive audio from the Moog Voyager.