Flying Lotus

According to Spectrasonics Flying Lotus used both Keyscape and Omnisphere on his latest album Flamagra.

Flying Lotus used to primarily produce with Reason, but later made the move to Ableton Live. It would seem he still uses Reason in some capacity.

In this tweet Flying Lotus says that he’s using Koala Sampler

Flying Lotus uses Ableton both to produce and for his live show. This is what he has to say about it in an interview: "I highly recommend Ableton live for people. I feel it’s the most forward thinking stuff out there."

The lead synth line in PieFace is an identical match to the preset "Laurie" when using Digital Suburban DEXED

Flying Lotus is shown with the Boss SP-303 Dr. Sample in an Instagram post captioned, "Damn. It's a shame you're dead! Rip dirtbox (Testament, Between Friends etc)," referencing its use in his projects like "Testament" and "Between Friends."

A big component of Flying Lotus' live setup is this Akai MPD32 controller. It can be seen in almost every photo and video of him playing live.

Before I got the XL-Desk, my biggest issue was always how to make my music more dynamic, with even more space in the sound and defined bass—how to widen the 3D field. That’s something I’ve been battling. I’ve wanted the analogue warmth for so long, and I’ve always wanted the analog depth. I wanted to see how far I could take it. When I hear my music through the XL-Desk, it has a natural sound to it, it sounds real. Once you actually hear your music through the console, you get addicted to it. There’s so much more room now. It makes me feel the openness. I can do some really cool stuff that I never did before. I can run these analogue 500-format modules and I’ve been able to get really creative with patching in a way that I never thought I would. I’m able to route things in a really interesting way. The sound is different, man. There’s a lot more space and you get a lot more headroom as well. Using it has also been helpful in ways that I didn’t expect. Having balanced subwoofer control is really good and the iJack has been great, too. It is a lot of little things like those that have been awesome about the desk. Things happen a lot faster when everything is in the desk. I would toil on the computer forever, but when it’s actually on faders, everything just makes sense a lot quicker. And there’s a more hands-on feel to it—it’s a beautiful thing."

At around 7:55-8:05 you can hear Lotus talk about the Prophet 6 and saying that he got his recently.

FlyLo tweets "Starting my first day on 'logic pro' today as soon as the new mac pro arrives. Next chapter.", leading us to believe he uses a Mac Pro to produce on, even though it seems his stint with Logic Pro was short-lived.

Flying Lotus' live show is centered around a MacBook Pro running Ableton Live and a MIDI controller. The MacBook Pro can also be seen in his studio.

Flying Lotus received a prototype Moog Sub Phatty and used it as the main instrument on his track "Such a Square".

In this YouTube Video you can see how is he djing with the Roland DJ707m. You can notice it on the decks and on the pads.

A gift from Akai to Flying Lotus.

At 8:06 Lotus says “I got the OB-6 too”

His home rig includes Focal Professional Twin6 Be threeway active nearfield monitors, an Access Virus TI synth, a sticker-encrusted Akai MPK49 USB/MIDI performance controller, and the Ableton Push controller. Keyboards include Moog Voyager, Fender Rhodes, and Wurlitzer electric pianos, as well as a Gibson guitar, a Carvin Legacy 3 all-tube 3-channel amp head, a bank of six Moogerfooger analog effects modules, two Technics SL-1200 turntables, and shelves of vinyl inspiration spanning early rave underground hardcore breakbeat, IDM, boom-bap, free jazz, breakcore metal, and psychedelic prog-rock, among other genres.

Lotus posted to his Instagramstory a picture of the new Prophet 5 and 10 synths, stating that he has compared the sound of the two and says he might take the 10 on the road with him.

Mentioned in a now deleted March 9, 2012 Twitter post, preserved in this July 25, 2019 WayBack Machine archive of this submission.

I'll always love my Audio Technica ATH-M50 headphones. I was gonna make a joke about how they're sex for your ears bla bla, spared you

FlyLo posted this Vine of him using the Push as a surface to play other sound toys on. Nevertheless, he has this to say in an interview with Electronic Musician Magazine on his recording of "You're Dead":

"And one of the reasons I like Ableton’s Push controller is it has a real inviting Star Trek vibe to it, so anybody who knows a little bit about production feels comfortable quickly and can get on it in conjunction with whatever I’m doing.”

Here's another picture of FlyLo's studio with an Ableton Push on his desk.

You can see this pic on wikipedia. It shows his studio equipments during the recording of his album "Until the Quiet Comes"

At his home studio, he had upgraded monitors acquired from after his move there, and various digital and analog instruments, including a drum kit, a Fender Rhodes piano, Wurlitzer electric pianos, Access Virus and Minimoog Voyager synthesizers,[20] a drum machine, three Mac Powerbooks, and a DSP unit.

For a while the M-Audio Trigger Finger was a part of Flying Lotus' live setup, but after 2008 the Akai MPD32 seems to be his controller of choice.

A Minimoog Voyager can be spotted in FlyLo's studio setup in a photo he shared.

Flying Lotus is seen using a Shure SM57 microphone in a photo available on Wikimedia.

uses in this post from August 20, 2019

In this video, Flying Lotus is using a Korg Monotron Delay to apply effects.

One can see two photos of the Space Echo RE-201 in this collage of Flying Lotus's home studio.

In an Instagram post from last October, Flying Lotus shared that he was using the ATC Loudspeakers SCM45A Pro Dual 7" 3-way Powered Studio Monitors while developing the beat for "Spontaneous." He mentioned that Adam, presumably from Adam Audio, captured the moment on camera, with his dog Iko making a cameo.

Flying Lotus has gone back and forth between these M-Audio BX8 monitors and monitors by Dynaudio.

In an interview with Dubspot at SXSW, a Mackie Big Knob Studio Command System is visible on Flying Lotus' desk, highlighting its role in his studio setup.