Daft Punk & Daft Punk – Homework

From a 2001 interview with Daft Punk: "We have a really small compressor, the Alesis 3630, which is $300. That's the main one we used on Homework and Discovery. The one we used the most is one of the cheapest ones on the market."

In this 2001 interview with Daft Punk about Discovery, they list some of their preferred samplers; the 1200 is listed.

At 7:26, in this performance video by Daft Punk, one can see the TR-909.

In this 2001 interview with Daft Punk about Discovery, they list some of their preferred samplers, the Roland S-760 being on the list.

In this 2001 interview with Daft Punk about Discovery, their main synths are listed. The 808 and its cousin the 909 are both mentioned.

Daft Punk has a LinnDrum in this image of one of their performances from the 90s.

this japanese interview shows daft punks equipment used to record homework

Used for Homework, as listed in this excerpt from a 1999 interview and this excerpt from a late 1995 CODA interview.

A Casio RZ-1 can be seen in the corner of the picture, as well as heard in the track Burnin' off of their album Homework

Per this screenshot from a late-'90s interview Daft Punk provided to a Japanese publication, a Mackie MS-1202 was used during the Homework era of recording and live performance. Additionally, the unit can be seen in this photo from https://daftbootlegs.tumblr.com, dated Dec. 11th, 1996.

Daft Punk utilized the Roland TR-707 Rhythm Composer in the recording of their album Homework, as detailed in an Enmore Audio article listing their gear, notably on the track High Fidelity (Claps, Snare, Hats & Crashes) and Harder Better Faster Stronger (Claps)

Per the official Mutronics website, Daft Punk are listed as Mutator customers. Good of Mutronics to keep the page alive despite the Mutator being discontinued in 2007.

Listed in a 1999 Japanese interview and this October 1, 2001 Mix Online interview.

In their own music, Daft Punk uses a number of different compressors. “We have a really small compressor, the Alesis 3630, which is $300. That's the main one we used on Homework and Discovery. The one we used the most is one of the cheapest ones on the market. It's really funny; it's the bricolage thing. Sometimes you don't have to have the most expensive equipment to make good music.” To further his point, de Homem-Christo reveals that an early Daft Punk single (a pre-Homework release) was created simply using an Akai S01 sampler, an Alesis MicroVerb 3 sound processor, an Alesis MMT-8 sequencer and a Mini-Moog synth. “It sounded great to us,” he says.

Daft Punk used the Ensoniq ASR-10 while recording their album "Homework," as detailed in a feature by Enmore Audio.

The Enmore Audio article lists the Waldorf MiniWorks 4-Pole among the equipment Daft Punk used to record their album "Homework."

Daft Punk used the Mackie CR-1604 mixer while recording their album "Homework," as detailed in an article by Enmore Audio.

Per this screenshot from a late-'90s interview Daft Punk provided to a Japanese publication, an Iomega Zip drive was used during the Homework era of recording and live performance. Nobody needs one of these in the present-day, but they provided affordable, reliable & ruggedized storage for live performance samples & other essential files in the era before 100GB of SSD could fit on a thumb drive.

Daft Punk "...brought their own synths into the studio, with a modular synth and things like an Oberheim OB8 and a Juno 106 and quite a few old polyphonic analogue synths."

This thread contains an old article from technorama that explains all the gear Daft Punk's old live setup, including the TB-303.

In Daft Punk's track "Burnin'" at 2:50, the E-mu Classic Keys preset "119 Huuuuuge" can be distinctly heard, as confirmed by the source on WhoSampled.

An article from Enmore Audio lists the Sequential Circuits Prophet VS as part of Daft Punk's gear used in recording their album "Homework."

this japanese interview shows daft punks equipment used to record homework

Used for Homework, as listed in this excerpt from a 1999 interview.

In an Enmore Audio article, Daft Punk is noted to have used the Roland MKS-80 Super Jupiter while recording their album "Homework."

Additional geek note: That E-Mu Orbit [9090] was a present from my dear Daft robots. They used it to produce •Oh Yeah• on their first album

Per this photo dated 23rd of September 1995 and a late-'90s feature in CODA magazine, Daft Punk employed a Studio Electronics MIDIMoog as part of their live performance setup during the Homework era. Note that the rack shown in the CODA magazine diagram features a Roland S-760 rack sampler directly above the 4-unit high analog synth, mirroring the setup shown in the 1995 photograph. While the photo evidence may not be high-res, there were no other rack mounted analog synths of this size on the market in before or during this timeframe.

Per this screenshot from a late-'90s interview Daft Punk gave to a Japanese publication, Emagic MicroLogic was used during the recording of Homework. MicroLogic was Emagic's more-affordable, feature-reduced version of Logic in the '90s. MicroLogic was first reviewed by TheMix in 1994, and the earliest versions of this application (at the very least, through version 2.0, likely later) were MIDI-only, predating Logic's later ability to record and playback digital audio.

In a photograph of Daft Punk's home studio (Crydamoure Studios from 2003, providing insight into the setup used during the "Homework" and "Discovery" eras of Daft Punk), two Electro-Harmonix EH-4600 Small Clone pedals are visible on the mixing console.