Nicolas Jaar

For the next 40 minutes, Jaar manipulated Ableton in a way that could be described as both crude and brilliant. The whole session went down on his laptop in a maniacal blur. With a focused smirk, he bent his original recording into unplaceable shapes but always seemed conscious of exploring its tonal opposite. Pulling up the software synth Absynth 5, he created a patch that went splat!.

During Nicolas Jaar's live performance with DARKSIDE on KEXP, Ableton Live is visible on the computer screen, indicating its use in the set.

Nicolas Jaar can be seen with Genelec 8040's in the background of his studio picture taken for the New York Times.

Throughout this video of a live performance at the Boiler Room in NYC, Nicolas Jaar can be seen using a Livid Instruments CNTRL:R.

In the image on this post you can see Nicolas Jaar using the Roland SH-101.

In this photo, one can see Jaar with a Roland Juno-106.

Nicolas Jaar has an NI Maschine in this live performance, evidenced by the Native Instruments logo on the back.

in his 2017 live tour, Jaar uses a Korg Minilogue, as seen in the live video around 4:20.

Update: in his 2019 live tour with Nicolas Jaar & Group, he still uses the Minilogue https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw1eVtPnaLe/ note: he detached the wooden rear panel

In this photo provided by AIAIAI of Nicolas Jaar, Nicolas can be seen wearing a pair of TMA-2 DJ Preset headphones.

In this picture we can see Nicolas Jaar using Sequential Prophet 6 in one of his lives in U.C Theatre in San Francisco 28 October 2016

Used on stage in 2016 tour

In this photo, Jaar can be seen with an Akai MPD24.

You can see it at 0:19 in the video, and various other points.

During his 2017 live performance at Täubchental in Leipzig, Nicolas Jaar uses the Mutable Instruments Clouds module in his rack. This can be seen in the YouTube video provided by aleksklaro. Additionally, a photo from a different tour shows the module positioned at the top right of his setup.

In the photo taken at Thalia Hall in Chicago, Nicolas Jaar's Electro-Harmonix Stereo Memory Man with Hazarai is visible near his Tempest setup.

In a photo posted by FYF Fest on Facebook, Nicolas Jaar is shown using a Moog Minitaur.

It can be spotted on his Live DARKSIDE Performance on KEXP.

Visible at 00:37 in this Darkside set.

He plays live with 2 MacBooks...

Visible on stage at 1:38 in this video

Used on stage in 2016 tour

he used the Make Noise Phonogene in his 2017 live tour

You can see it at 0:46, 1:00, very well at 2:43. Shot by The Drone @ Rex Club.

Jaar has a Microkorg XL in this picture.

At 2:27 it's possible to see Nicolas Jaar using a Novation SL Zéro Mk2

Jaar has a Nord Lead 2 in this image

He used a Mutable Instruments Peaks in his 2017 live tour

he used a Make Noise Echophon in his 2017 live tour

he used a 4ms Row Power 40 module in his 2017 live tour

In the bottom row you can see a Make Noise Morphagene in his rack.