Chillout Gear Used by Chillout Artists
Drawn from the documented rigs of 85 Chillout artists and the Equipboard community — ranked by real usage, not opinion.
Gear That Defines Chillout
Not just popular — disproportionately Chillout. Multipliers compare usage among Chillout artists & fans to usage across all of Equipboard, so gear everyone owns doesn't crowd out the gear that makes this genre sound like itself.
Image-Line FL Studio
DAW Software
1.9× vs site-wide
2
Sequential Circuits Prophet-5
Synthesizers
1.8× vs site-wide
3
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Korg MS-20
Synthesizers
1.8× vs site-wide
4
Lennar Digital Sylenth1 Software Synthesizer
Synth Plugins
1.7× vs site-wide
5
Xfer Serum Advanced Wavetable Synthesizer
Synth Plugins
1.7× vs site-wide
6
Avid Pro Tools
DAW Software
1.5× vs site-wide
The Artists Behind the Data
This page is built from the documented rigs of Chillout artists on Equipboard — a few of the 85:
How We Built This Guide
Documented artist rigs
Every count starts with the sourced, evidence-backed gear of 85 Chillout artists on Equipboard — interviews, photos, and rig breakdowns, not guesswork.
Community signal
Saves and gear-photo tags from players who love this genre add weight, so the lists reflect who actually plays this stuff.
Distinctive, not just popular
We compare Chillout usage to all of Equipboard — so a tuner everyone owns doesn't drown out the gear that makes this genre sound like itself.
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